Review #459
Do you prefer romcoms with 1 or 2 PoV?
Always Only You is the third book I’ve read by Chloe Liese and have 4 more currently rented from the library. I love that her characters have depth and feel like grown adults. I’ll give this one a 4.7/5 stars. Oh and this was my first ever hockey romance. My biggest issue is the hero, Ren, needed more flaws.
(By the way it’s really hard for me to remember all the title names since they use ‘abstract’ words and often sounds the same as the others like ‘If Only You.’
Here are my random babblings as I read (possible spoilers):
Frankie has the first POV in chapter 1 and it started out with a good intro and locker room scene meeting her personality and Ren, the hot hockey player. But when she went to the diner after the game there were too many side characters introduced all at once about Ren’s family and it felt overwhelming.
I love that Ren swears in Elizabethan oaths like ‘Canker-blossom.’
I’m glad that Chloe Liese shows representation of difference disabilities but I believe she has had two main characters with autism. So I’m intrigued to see how she will portray that uniquely since multiple of my clients have autism and they all present differently.
“Your scepter, my liege”… is cute about her cane.
I love the “I have no one else to stay with” trope.
Page 146 is perfection
“Mammering rough-hewn eunuch.”
Halfway- I love that they’re both pining for each other.
Liese’s books are always addicting for me. They flow so smoothly.
Her response to his confession feels quite confusing: “What if the life I’ve built, the one that was supposed to free me, has turned into a prison after all?”
I like direct clarification in conversations.
I love his they’re trialing a variety of nicknames. And I adore the Harry Potter spells.
Wish she would’ve called her mom before chapter 27
I wanted an epilogue of her at her new job and how the team was coping without her. It never showed the team finding out that she wouldn’t be back. There was also no conclusion about what happens to her often-empty apartment