Review: Unspoken Vow by Eden Finley
SYNOPSIS:
๐๐โ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐๐ช๐ฉ ๐ง๐ช๐ฃ ๐๐ฌ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข.
Thereโs a long list of things I donโt handle well:
Change.
Relationships.
Breakups.
But thereโs one person above everything else I canโt seem to get a handle on.
๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ.
In short, heโs perfect. The reality, he scares me.
Heโs the opposite of what I usually go for. Heโs bigger. Intimidating. He reminds me of someone Iโd rather forget.
When I need to find a new place to live, Brody offers me his spare room, but I have no plans on taking him up on the offer. He doesnโt know what happened to me five years ago, and I want to keep it that way.
But with limited options, I find myself outside his apartment holding a full moving box and wondering: How can I do this without exposing the darkest part of my past?
REVIEW:
This book was heavy, I enjoyed the story but d*mn the feels took me by surprise. You heard glimpses of Ander’s traumatic past in Unwritten Law but to be in his head and hear his story is another thing. He left me feeling raw and gutted. Ander’s story is tragically beautiful and left me feeling so hopeful.
Ander’s was such a complex, broken man. He wants what he can’t have and is in a constant d*mned if I do, d*mned if I don’t state. In the tragic aftermath of a life altering event, Ander’s is just existing and trying to function with crippling anxiety. Eden Finley accurately captures how debilitating anxiety truly is and just how much of a struggle ‘normal life’ can be. From the whispers of doubt in your head to how it can quickly spiral into depression, I loved how sincere Ander’s battle with anxiety was.
Enter Brody, confident, charming, charismatic, the man had me smiling from the minute I met him. While they slowly begin to open up to each other and work through Ander’s anxiety, they find love. It isn’t conventional, it is messy and honest. With endless therapy visits, a ratty cat to provide comic relief, and sexual tension that is palpable. Brody has the biggest heart and endless patience. These two men just had my heart aching and swooning.
The ending was stupidly cute. You get to see Law and Reed and how their relationship has changed over the past year. But you also get to see just how far Anders has come. This story was so much more than a romance, it was also a reminder to never give up and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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