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𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲🕒 2 minutes

𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿:  Jordana Blake✍🏻𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁: 306 📖

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀:⭐⭐⭐⭐
𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲:🌶️🌶️.5
𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: Interconnected Standalone
𝗘𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲: HAE
𝗡𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲: Dual POV

“𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁. 𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.”

🦚One Night Stand
🍂Best Friends’ Older Brother
🦚Banter
🍂He Falls Hard
🦚Healing From Trauma
🍂Small Town Romance

Mateo Santos-Manolo is everything. Just when you think it can’t get better than River, Mateo struts into the chat like, “Hi, I’m your new obsession.”

The way this man falls hard for Nessa? I have no words—just squeals. I’m a sucker for some top-tier pining, and oh boy, did he bring the angst. I also have a soft spot for a man who treats his woman like the sun rises and sets with her—and if that doesn’t describe Mateo, I don’t know what does.
 

Nessa? Classic First Daughter energy. Carrying the weight of the world, convinced she has to be everything for everyone (wait… am I still reviewing or journaling?👀😅).
 

We don’t get too deep into Nessa’s history with her ex, but we learn enough to know Caleb was a toxic dumpster fire in khakis. Her admission that she felt ashamed for not realizing his behavior was abusive sooner? That hit. Abuse doesn’t always wear a name tag, and recognizing it—really naming it for what it is—is hard. That scene had me feeling things.
 

Also? FRIENDS reference? Automatic five stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Shae calling Nessa out during her one-woman pity party? Chef’s kiss. Iconic. I can only hope that if I ever need to drag a sibling out of their spiral, I channel that same level of loving but savage truth-telling.
 

Jordana’s ability to bring real, often unspoken issues onto the page without derailing the story is chef’s kiss perfection. It’s thoughtful without being heavy-handed, and it sticks with you in the best way.
 

Listen—I laughed, I choked up, I rage-sighed. I basically boarded the emotional rollercoaster at Peacock Springs and white-knuckled it the whole ride.