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A review by yazthebookish
Darkest Corner of the Heart by Lisina Coney
4.0
4 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It’s only now that I realize a haunting truth—Maddie Stevens, my twenty-one-year-old patient, has me wrapped around her little finger.
The Darkest Corner of the Heart was such a wholesome romance with swoon-worthy moments and steamy scenes that'll make you sweat.
If I had a list of books that I think are perfect palate cleansers in between long and heavy books, this would be definitely be on it.
I adored The Brightest Light of Sunshine which follows the beautiful love story of Grace and Cal, and that's where our main heroine, Maddie, makes her first cameo.
I'm a sucker for forbidden and age-gap (done right) romances, so I'm pleased to say I'm sated.
The romance wasn't extremely forbidden since Maddie is 21 and James is 31, but they had to navigate and deal with their mutual attraction outside a professional setting since James was her physical therapist.
I've always had such a soft spot for Maddie, and living through her POV and seeing how badly her parents' neglect and abandonment deeply scarred her even if her brother replaced their love a hundred fold, it really made my heart hurt for her. It might be a point of frustration to some readers how Maddie reacted in some situations but I think they made sense as a result of her trauma. Fear of abandonment has always been a haunting ghost all her life.
I highly recommend reading TBLOS before this book for better context.
James was sweet and so tender with her, but damn wasn't he something else once they both hit the sheets *wink* *wink*.
What I loved about both of them was the more they got to know to each other, the more they felt like kindred spirits. Their feelings towards each other were so pure and it melted my heart.
I could've done without the constant age gap reminder. It was something important for both of them to deal with realistically but it was a tad too repetitive.
Overall, another lovely and swoon-worthy romance from Lisina Coney!
Content warnings: mention of parental neglect/ abandonment, childhood trauma, anxiety attack, mention of alcoholism, mention of drugs, mention of death.
It’s only now that I realize a haunting truth—Maddie Stevens, my twenty-one-year-old patient, has me wrapped around her little finger.
The Darkest Corner of the Heart was such a wholesome romance with swoon-worthy moments and steamy scenes that'll make you sweat.
If I had a list of books that I think are perfect palate cleansers in between long and heavy books, this would be definitely be on it.
I adored The Brightest Light of Sunshine which follows the beautiful love story of Grace and Cal, and that's where our main heroine, Maddie, makes her first cameo.
I'm a sucker for forbidden and age-gap (done right) romances, so I'm pleased to say I'm sated.
The romance wasn't extremely forbidden since Maddie is 21 and James is 31, but they had to navigate and deal with their mutual attraction outside a professional setting since James was her physical therapist.
I've always had such a soft spot for Maddie, and living through her POV and seeing how badly her parents' neglect and abandonment deeply scarred her even if her brother replaced their love a hundred fold, it really made my heart hurt for her. It might be a point of frustration to some readers how Maddie reacted in some situations but I think they made sense as a result of her trauma. Fear of abandonment has always been a haunting ghost all her life.
I highly recommend reading TBLOS before this book for better context.
James was sweet and so tender with her, but damn wasn't he something else once they both hit the sheets *wink* *wink*.
What I loved about both of them was the more they got to know to each other, the more they felt like kindred spirits. Their feelings towards each other were so pure and it melted my heart.
I could've done without the constant age gap reminder. It was something important for both of them to deal with realistically but it was a tad too repetitive.
Overall, another lovely and swoon-worthy romance from Lisina Coney!
Content warnings: mention of parental neglect/ abandonment, childhood trauma, anxiety attack, mention of alcoholism, mention of drugs, mention of death.