HIDEAWAY HEART | BY MELANIE HARLOW
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AUTHOR: MELANIE HARLOW
SERIES: CHERRY TREE HARBOR | BOOK #2
CATEGORY: SMALL TOWN ROMANCE, ENEMIES TO LOVERS, GRUMP/SUNSHINE, FORCED PROXIMITY, SASSY HEROINE, EX-MILATARY ROMANCE, ROMCOM, M-F
PUBLICATION DATE: 11/07/23
RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
MY REVIEW:
Kelly or Pixie Hart as everyone knows her needs a break from the celebrity lifestyle. She is a popular country singer and she is needs some time away from the spot light and everyone in it. She’s been on for too long and she needs some time to be alone and recharge in a secluded cabin in the woods.
But her brother isn’t having it. He doesn’t want her alone without any protection, which makes sense since she’s a pop star. So he enlists Xander to watch over her but doesn’t really mention it to her.
Xander shows up and isn’t really impressed by Kelly nor is she impressed by him. She’s a bit annoyed with him and acts like a brat. I can understand that she wants time to herself but she has to understand how unsafe it is when you’re a music artist.
Anyways this is proven to her when she posted a pic and people started narrowing down her location. Xander’s had to deal with his far share of celebrities that extremely self absorbed so he’s thinking Kelly’s no different and she started to prove him right until she realized that he was just doing his job and keeping her safe.
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After they are basically at each other’s throats somehow things change and there’s a tension between them. A tension that neither one of them can ignore. And then things start to change and we see something start to blossom between the two.
Kelly is perky and more of a sunshine personality, this leads to some of the people in her life taking advantage of her which always sucks. It was great to see her stand up for herself and not let the people in her life push her around or just accept something to go with the flow.
She needs to leave her ex completely alone from the beginning, he annoyed me every time he was brought up in the book.
Xander was steadfast and there for her, he also helped boost her confidence to believe she deserved the things in her life.
This was a good book and I enjoyed the characters but I have to say Runaway Love is my favorite so far. I just felt like I connected with the characters better.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. Her stories are about modern couples falling in old-fashioned love, and even though romance is a fantasy, her heroes and heroines are everyday people with real problems who stumble on their way to happily ever after. She lifts her glass to readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband and two daughters.
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