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    Contemporary RomanceNew AdultReviews

    Sweet Dandelion by Micalea Smeltzer

    written by Dísir
    Sweet Dandelion by Micalea SmeltzerSweet Dandelion by Micalea Smeltzer
    Published by Amazon Digital Services, Amazon Publishing on 25th March 2020
    Pages: 486
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    three-stars

    Dandelion Meadows is cursed.

    Horrible name.

    Horrible luck.

    At eighteen she should be headed off to college, all smiles and naivety.Instead, a victim of a school shooting, she’s starting her senior year in a new city and living with her brother.Nightmares of that terrible day haunt her, affecting her daily life and the relationships around her.

    Forced to meet with the school counselor, Dani finds him chipping away at the walls she’s built around herself, and even her heart.

    Lachlan Taylor doesn’t know what to make at first of the broken student he’s tasked with helping. She’s survived a trauma he’s not sure he can save her from, but he knows he has to try.

    The more time they spend together, the more they learn about what it really means to live.

    Some things are forbidden.Some things are necessary for survival.

    Their love is both.

    ‘Sweet Dandelion’ slots nicely into the NA genre – one that typically deals with teenage trauma of any kind – with an age-gap student/school-counsellor romance, brought about as Dandelion Meadows starts life anew as she tries to deal with a school-shooting that took nearly everything from her.

    Micalea Smeltzer definitely does a credible job in detailing the ups and downs of Dani’s emotions and her journey towards a man who’s forbidden in many ways. Written wholly in Dandelion’s POV, the story stretched out longer than I’d liked, starting brilliantly but eventually dipping at the halfway mark when the emotional descriptions started to get repetitive, lessening as well, the impact of Dani/Lachlan’s romance when it soon became evident that the rest of the story consisted of a push-pull vibe that carried on for too long. In fact, there were too many superfluous details (and even characters, like Ansel or Sasha even) that detracted from the intensity of the story and their forbidden romance.

    That Lachlan also took it upon himself to make a major decision for the both of them however, was a major turn-off during the read – apparently communication isn’t the biggest thing here? –  couched as it was under the rationale that it was Dani’s own good. It was at best, an unconvincing move, and at its worst, patronising twist in the plot that I could definitely have done without.

    Long story short, ‘Sweet Dandelion’ was something that could have been better told with tighter (and ruthless) editing, especially with the number of scenes falling into plain implausibility given the number of coincidences written into the story. I just wished I could have gotten on board more with this.

    three-stars
    Sweet Dandelion by Micalea Smeltzer was last modified: December 27th, 2020 by Dísir
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    Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett

    by Dísir 19th December 2020

    Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett Series: Team 52, #8 Published by Anna Hackett on 29th November 2020 Pages: 229 Buy on Amazon Goodreads When a dangerous redhead invades his…

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    The Troubleshooter by Anna Hackett

    by Dísir 5th November 2020

    The Troubleshooter by Anna Hackett Series: Norcross #2 Published by Amazon Digital Services, Amazon Publishing, Anna Hackett on October 20th 2020 Pages: 168 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Never, ever fall…

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    Muses and Melodies by Rebecca Yarros

    by Dísir 1st November 2020

    Muses & Melodies by Rebecca Yarros Series: Hush Note, #3 Published by Yarros Ink, LLC on 6th October 2020 Pages: 307 Buy on Amazon Goodreads If I can keep Hush…

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    Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

    by Dísir 1st September 2020

    Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Published by Sourcebooks, Sourcebooks Casablanca on 7th July 2020 Pages: 427 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Wanted: One (fake) boyfriendPractically perfect in every way Luc O’Donnell…

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    Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

    by Dísir 28th August 2020

    Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams Series: Bromance Book Club, #3 Published by Berkley on 27th October 2020 Pages: 352 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Alexis Carlisle and her cat…

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    Tainted Evidence by Rachel Grant

    by Dísir 30th July 2020

    Tainted Evidence by Rachel Grant Series: Evidence, #10 Published by Janus Publishing on 26th June 2020 Pages: 366 Buy on Amazon Goodreads Some family secrets are deadly… Inventorying human remains…

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