****4 Stars****
I am the biggest fan of the whole stepbrother/taboo book genre so when I read the blurb and title for this book I just had to read this!
Jackson Worthington is the black sheep of his family. He feels like he doesn't belong and having a mother who doesn't hesitate in letting him know she never wanted him and a step father who tries to control his life and career and mold him into his little mini-me, leads to a less than ideal home life. The only person who actually cares for him and makes him feel like he belongs in this family is his fifteen year old stepsister Lily, who he happens to have feelings for.
Deciding that he has had enough, he decides to enlist in the Army once he graduates high school. On his last night at home and feeling like he has nothing to lose, him and Lily share a passionate kiss, but end up getting caught by her step father who then kicks him out of the house. He stays gone for seven years, but has thought about Lily and that one encounter every day. When an Army injury ends his military career, he is forced to return home.
I have read a whole lot of books from this genre, some good and some not so good, and I feel like this wasn't one of the better ones. I felt like the heroine in the story was very weak, considering her situation and choices she was forced to make. She let her father control every aspect of her life, including a marriage to a man she didn't even like. She was willing to lose her chance at love in order to please her father. This book was a good quick read, but didn't hold my attention as raptly as it could have. Overall, this book was still quite enjoyable.
Reviewed by Ashley Ziegler
Synopsis
Seven years in the army will change a guy. But after a shoulder wound ends his career as a sniper, Jackson Worthington finds himself back home, fighting a battle that’s all too familiar: keeping his hands off Lily Hastings. She’s still her rich daddy’s little angel, innocent, impossibly lovely, as squeaky-clean as Jackson is dirty. And she’s still his stepsister—forbidden but not forgotten, not after the soul-melting kiss that got him kicked out of the house at eighteen. He couldn’t resist her then. How the hell can he resist her now?
Lily is about to marry a man she doesn’t love, and commit to a high-stress job she hates, all to please the father who controls every waking moment of her life. On top of everything, her teenage crush is back, with a sleek, chiseled body and a trace of the rebellious boy whose lips sealed her fate. Jackson’s timing couldn’t be worse . . . or better. Because Lily’s all grown up, too. She’s aching for another taste. And for the first time, she’s ready to be a bad girl.
Lily is about to marry a man she doesn’t love, and commit to a high-stress job she hates, all to please the father who controls every waking moment of her life. On top of everything, her teenage crush is back, with a sleek, chiseled body and a trace of the rebellious boy whose lips sealed her fate. Jackson’s timing couldn’t be worse . . . or better. Because Lily’s all grown up, too. She’s aching for another taste. And for the first time, she’s ready to be a bad girl.
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