Book Review: The Hidden Love by R.J. Gray

Meet Cute Book Club Book 5

"Oh, God! Did I just fall right into my dead best friend’s ex-boyfriend, secret baby daddy, incredibly sexy, Navy SEAL’s arms?” - Sounds like a line right out of one of my book club's romance novels. Except it's not. It's real life. My real life. Grieving the loss of my best friend, and suddenly taking on raising her son, I'm faced with a whole new set of challenges. That includes breaking the news to my brother's best friend, Kade, that Danny is his son. As if that's not enough for one woman to handle, Kade is even hotter than I remember and navigating all the details of Annabelle's death and Danny's future brings us closer than ever, in more ways than one. And my girls in from book club? They're all for me finding my happily ever after with the sexy as sin man in uniform. But Kade has even more on the line without worrying about a relationship. Will he choose a family and life outside of the military, or will he go back to his unit and leave it all behind? The Hidden Love is a standalone, second chance romance that is part of the multi-author series, Meet Cute Book Club series. Escape with this swoon-worthy collection of romances where meet-cutes don't only happen between the pages of romance novels and members find their own happily ever afters.

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My Review:

Oof! There’s a lot of difficult emotions in this one, but I loved the way the author tackled them head on and with so much sensitivity. This story is built around the one secret I cannot abide. I’m very glad that its revelation is what starts the book, otherwise I would have been hard pressed to keep reading. I adored Kade and everything about him. He had my full sympathies from the very beginning. I flip-flopped a lot in my feelings for Shannon. There were times I loved her, and my heart broke for what she was going through. At others, I badly wanted to smack some sense into her. I really appreciated that they both apologized for the mistakes that they made and I’m pretty giddy over the happy ending they’re able to achieve. I would just about give my eye teeth for an epilogue, though. I really, really wanted a peak into their future. I’m so into this whole series and I can’t wait to read the next book.

I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book through Indie Pen PR.

Other books in the series

The Wine Down (Meet Cute Book Club #1)

The Jane Thing (Meet Cute Book Club #2)

The Forever Game (Meet Cute Book Club, #3)

The Right Guy (Meet Cute Book Club, #4)