Monday, July 3, 2023

Longtime Crush by Carrie Ann Ryan

 




Title: Longtime Crush
Series: Montgomery Ink Legacy #3
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 3, 2023


BLURB

When my best friend and I fell for the same guy in middle school, I stepped back.
I'd always expected to dance at their wedding.
Not sit in the back pew of her funeral.
I left town for my own reasons, but now that I'm back, it’s clear Sebastian Montgomery isn't the same man I left.
He's hard. Broken.
And a single father to an adorable little girl.
When it turns out he’s my new neighbor, I can’t stay away.
But I know I’m playing with fire and the heat between us burns enough to scorch.
I thought I was over my crush.
But now it might crush me.

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
My review:

Longtime Crush is the third book in the Montgomery Ink series, and I just cannot get enough of these Montgomery boys.  Every book gets better, and I love getting to revisit with everyone from earlier books.  This is Sebastian Montgomery and Raven’s heartbreaking story.  We met Sebastian in At First Meet when he was nineteen and expecting a baby with his eighteen-year-old girlfriend Marley. 

The prologue of this book goes back to when Marley dies during childbirth and Sebastian becomes a father.  The first chapter takes us forward five years after Marley’s death where Sebastian is a single father raising his daughter, Nora, with his family’s help. 

As children Raven, Marley, and Sebastian were best friends and did everything together.  It was in middle school that Raven fell in love with Sebastian but gave up on that dream when he fell in love with their best friend Marley.  After high school, Raven left town to find herself but returns home to open Latte on the Rocks, a bakery and coffee shop. Only to discover her neighbor is Sebastian and she might not have gotten over that crush after all.  

“This wasn’t the family I thought I’d have, but it was the family I had now, the family that was exactly what I wanted.”

“…a human was able to love more than one person.  They were able to open up their heart as full as they needed to.  Marley was my past, Raven and Nora were my future”

This is one of those books you want to have a box of tissues close by.  I was so teary-eyed during the Prologue and my heart went out to Sebastian when his entire world was turned upside down.  He was sweet, protective, and a great father.  I was so happy when he finally realized he could love Raven without it weakening the love he had for Marley.  This was a beautiful story of Sebastian’s journey of second-chance love, family, and grief.  I loved it and highly recommend this book.

I received an ARC and am voluntarily leaving a review.  All thoughts and opinions are my own.







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Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Redwood Pack, Fractured Connections, and Elements of Five series, which have sold over 3.0 million books worldwide. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over seventy-five novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.


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