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Loving Amber by Roya Carmen
3.0
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Actual Rating 3.5 Stars
I am starting to adore second chance romances; but I am still iffy about friends – to – lovers; because it mostly depends on the perfect connection between the authors’ talents and the characters themselves.
Loving Amber is romance of Amber Riverstone and Aiden Rogers – but first it was the story of Amber, Aiden, Flynn, Paul and Amber’s twin, Ken. Friends since childhood, they all have been quite the gang and the gang stayed together till their adulthood.
Amber marries her childhood sweetheart, Paul even though she has always been attracted to Aiden; but then again, he never gave an indication that he was interested in Amber, in fact he goes out to his way to antagonize her – giving credence to the old saying “boys tease you because they like you”.
But it is when Amber’s husband and twin are killed in a car accident, she blames the only person walks away alive, Aiden. She hasn’t seen or talked to Aiden in 2 years, mostly because she feels a whole lot of guilt over her attraction to Aiden even while her husband was alive!
With Aiden, on the other hand, it’s easy to see the guilt and love he has for Amber and the accident. He has kept in touch with Flynn, Amber’s elder brother, and always asks about Amber, even though he knows that she blames him for the accident.
There is angst in this book, a whole lot of it, some of it quite unnecessary – I get that Amber blames Aiden, but her actions sometimes were infinitely crueller than I could have ever imagined (for me, at least!) and the fact that Aiden took it, till he couldn’t anymore, made me all the more antsy.
I could have enjoyed this book – but somehow somewhere, it was the writing that fell a little flat for me. Or maybe it was the characters that I couldn’t actually connect to. Or maybe it was a combination of both. I do know that I was looking for clues about Ruby and Flynn’s own stories more than I was ever interested in Aiden and Amber’s ongoing drama.
It was only in the last 10% or so that I got back in the groove of things – and looked forward to their resolution, and the ending was poignantly emotional and perfect (and the reason for the 3.5 stars)
Loving Amber is one of those romances where there was that “almost” connection between the author’s writing and the characters – the one where everything should have worked out but couldn’t actually hack it.
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Actual Rating 3.5 Stars
I am starting to adore second chance romances; but I am still iffy about friends – to – lovers; because it mostly depends on the perfect connection between the authors’ talents and the characters themselves.
Loving Amber is romance of Amber Riverstone and Aiden Rogers – but first it was the story of Amber, Aiden, Flynn, Paul and Amber’s twin, Ken. Friends since childhood, they all have been quite the gang and the gang stayed together till their adulthood.
Amber marries her childhood sweetheart, Paul even though she has always been attracted to Aiden; but then again, he never gave an indication that he was interested in Amber, in fact he goes out to his way to antagonize her – giving credence to the old saying “boys tease you because they like you”.
But it is when Amber’s husband and twin are killed in a car accident, she blames the only person walks away alive, Aiden. She hasn’t seen or talked to Aiden in 2 years, mostly because she feels a whole lot of guilt over her attraction to Aiden even while her husband was alive!
With Aiden, on the other hand, it’s easy to see the guilt and love he has for Amber and the accident. He has kept in touch with Flynn, Amber’s elder brother, and always asks about Amber, even though he knows that she blames him for the accident.
There is angst in this book, a whole lot of it, some of it quite unnecessary – I get that Amber blames Aiden, but her actions sometimes were infinitely crueller than I could have ever imagined (for me, at least!) and the fact that Aiden took it, till he couldn’t anymore, made me all the more antsy.
I could have enjoyed this book – but somehow somewhere, it was the writing that fell a little flat for me. Or maybe it was the characters that I couldn’t actually connect to. Or maybe it was a combination of both. I do know that I was looking for clues about Ruby and Flynn’s own stories more than I was ever interested in Aiden and Amber’s ongoing drama.
It was only in the last 10% or so that I got back in the groove of things – and looked forward to their resolution, and the ending was poignantly emotional and perfect (and the reason for the 3.5 stars)
Loving Amber is one of those romances where there was that “almost” connection between the author’s writing and the characters – the one where everything should have worked out but couldn’t actually hack it.
For more reviews visit For The Love of Fictional Worlds :)
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