Beg, Borrow, or Steal by Sarah Adams (When in Rome #3)
Jackson Bennett. Yep, that’s the review.
Hahaha just kidding (or not!) 🤣
Beg, Borrow, or Steal is a classic tale of a brokenhearted, jaded girl and her decade-long feud with a boy. But there’s a fine line between love and hate, and Jack and Emily are none the wiser. The harder they try to hate each other, the deeper they fall in love, no matter how clueless they are about it 😅 The slow burn, the yearning, the tension, I love every single thing about this book! 💖
I’m not the eldest daughter, but I see so much of myself in Emily, in the way she loves her family, how she takes care of them, and how she shows up for them. But when you give so much of yourself to others all the time, your own needs and emotions take a backseat, and it can get lonely. The same can be said for Jack, too. Sarah Adams writes both characters so beautifully that their story makes you believe it’s possible to love yourself more and live a little for your own sake, while still giving that same kind of love to everyone else. That’s why this book feels both comforting and healing at the same time.
Although it took Jack and Emily a decade to realize it, they’re actually perfect for each other. Every single one of their interactions made me smile, and there was definitely a lot of giggling involved, especially whenever a certain Jack Bennett and his motorcycle were in the scene HAHAHAHA. In each other, they finally found someone willing to love them at their best and their worst, to understand them, to hold space for them, and to never walk away when things get hard. And honestly, I don’t think there’s a greater kind of love than that 🥹
Maybe it's time for a plot twist . . .
Emily Walker hates anyone disrupting her carefully curated life, especially her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett - the exact opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer. But now Jack's back in town after a failed engagement and he's here to stay . . . as both her colleague and her neighbour.
Jack is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. Until, that is, he realises he's now neighbours with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons.
With their red-hot animosity at an all-time high, Emily makes a mistake that could reveal her secret literary identity. Frustratingly, she needs Jack's help to make it right. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?