Once Upon a Bad Boy by Melonie Johnson

5 STARS

Release Date: June 25, 2019

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

SYNOPSIS

NEVER SAY NEVER
Sadie Gold is ready to take her career to the next level with the role of a lifetime. Finally, she can shake her reputation as a pretty face with more wealth and connections than talent. But Sadie is not prepared for the wild turn her own life is about to take. The man in charge of training Sadie for her most demanding role yet is none other than her first real boyfriend—the one who took her heart and ran away.

WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE
Bo Ibarra is as good-looking and irresistible as ever. Maybe even more so, now that everything once worked against them—Sadie’s pampered and privileged upbringing and Bo’s childhood in a family struggling to make ends meet—is in the past. But the future is still unwritten…and getting there, together, means coming clean about painful secrets and slashing through nasty tabloid rumors while trying to control the attraction that crackles between them. Maybe it’s finally time for them to walk off into the sunset and into a true and lasting love?

REVIEW

This was an EPIC second-chance romance! Did I want to smack teenage Bo for breaking up with a teenage Sadie, even though he thought he was doing the right thing? YES. Luckily, that’s the past and we’re thrown right into the present. What I loved most though, is that Bo and Sadie were both fairly straight forward when it came to their feelings. They both have past hurts they’re hiding, but it’s like they both know they’re meant to be together now. I love the people they have become, and seeing them struggle with their individual insecurities. There is just so much depth to both of them, and I was so invested in their happy ending.

Then you have the celebrity drama to add a little more spice. I loved getting to know Ana more too, as we’ve seen glimpses of her and Sadie in the previous books. I wish we got a little more of Sadie’s grandmother, because she seems like a real gem! Overall, this was an amazing third book in the Sometimes in Love Series, and I can’t wait to get the rest of the stories involving the lovely ladies in this friends group.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!

Check out my review of Book 1: Getting Hot with the Scot

Check out my review of Book 2: Smitten by the Brit

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