"Silence. Slow breaths. Silence. Limbo."

This was one hundred and sixty three pages of sheer pleasure, swooning and cheeky giggles. Ombogo just hits the precipice; feeding you well but leaving room for more.

Not only is the cover exquisite but the words that trickle from the book down to my 'hallucinating' centre are just wholesome, filling. The characters are quite a delicacy, ravishing even. Witty, humorous and flawed just like you and I. It's set in the affluent places (because sometimes we need an escape from reality). It's certainly joyful reading a tale set around home. And the story seems to just flow so seamlessly while the writing style left me insatiable.

"What I need is to feel alive and he makes me feel more alive than I've ever felt with anyone else. I refuse to analyse that statement."

Oh Ombogo I felt so alive just reading this gem. When you thought Kenyan authors are all about rigid, set books an author pops out and proves you wrong. Mona Ombogo did that to me. I'm simply smitten. A lot has changed about my perspective on my present day local authors. They keep on getting better and better. Standing ovation!

By God, I can't wait to read book 2. I'm thirsty for more. From my other bookish friends it gets only better, more steamy and this has my heart screaming for more. And I've just seen a silhouette of book three on Goodreads (D for Darien). Squeals.

I don't take my romance neat no more but this was the exception to the rule and totally worth it. Mona through her main character asks, "If you had all the time in the world, what would you do now?" I shout read this book. Got me out of a slump and had me feeling those squishy feelings.