The thing is that Joey has so much on his plate since a young age that he physically can't be even half as single-mindedly obsessed with Aoife as he should be to be able to match the levels of Aoife's love, devotion and loyalty for him. His attention span and his time are very limited due to his home situation and at times I felt like Aoife would never make it to the top on his list of priorities meanwhile in case of Aoife he seems to be her ONE and ONLY priority. In short: this book is AMAZING if you love dialogues, banter, slow burn, sassy heroines and bad boys that are actually too good for their own good. But the best part is that we have the second one coming in March!! Chloe really spoiled us this time 😭😭

These siblings make me cry, but they also make me laugh so much with their antics whereas it Joey having to clean shit of Sean, Tadhg correcting Ollie for pronouncing something wrong. They make my emotionless ass go through all the emotions. I can only sleep at night knowing that Mommy and Daddy K are coming to rescue soon, because otherwise I’m going to scream into my pillow how unfair their life is. Book Genre: Abuse, Academic, College, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, High School, New Adult, Romance, Sociology, Sports, Sports Romance, Young Adult Mam loved me, but she was weak and weary and didn't put up a fight when Dad insisted I attend Ballylaggin Community School. I hated their father and mother with a passion. I was so furious at the mother that she didn't protect her children better. Because of her they are all completely messed up. For the father I have nothing to say except that he deserves his ending. Where I was short, he was tall. I had blue eyes, he had green ones. I was dark haired, he was fair. His skin was sun-kissed golden. I was pale. He was outspoken and loud, whereas I was quiet and kept to myself.

My doctor had also encouraged my mother to assess my schooling arrangement, suggesting that the stress I was under at school could be a contributing factor to my obvious physical stunt in development. She is absolute PERFECTION. She has a heart and soul of gold. I have NOTHING but love for this girl. And honestly everything and anything I say about her is just going to be me raving about how amazing and wonderful and phenomenal she is.

I thought this read was going to be VERY PAINFUL (you know, because of all Joey and Aoife's issues from Binding 13, Keeping 13), which it was 😭 My poor baby. Someone go and protect this boy who has the world's responsibilities on his shoulders. All he does is work, care for his good for nothing mother, protect Shannon from their father, care for the rest of the family, while dealing with the rest of his life. Somebody give this guy a gold medal and a break! Every scene where she tells him do that or I’ll scream and he ends up doing that and he’s like FINE!Also, just as in the first book, this one dealt with hard-hitting topics in a way that didn't feel false or over-dramatized. Were some of the events VERY dramatic? Absolutely. But they never felt contrived. The ending of the book made me a freakin mess. It broke me in the best way. watching the main characters breakdown made me have a pitiful breakdown as well. I was a mess. It was too much to handle, specially knowing what’s going to happen in the next book. I’m not sure I’m ready. I’m beyond thankful we get to have Joey’s story. He deserves to be the main character. To have his own story. He is freakin important. The protector. It’s about time he get someone to protect him.