Saturday, August 12, 2023

Stay Here With Me by Carrie Ann Ryan




Title: Stay Here With Me
Series: The Wilder Brothers #5
Author: Carrie Ann Ryan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Rock Star/Tortured Hero
Release Date: August 14, 2023


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The Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a secret romance that East and Lark never saw coming.

The world thinks I only write songs about my ex-boyfriends.

They study each lyric to point a finger at which man broke my heart—even if I’ve never met him.

Only the man I refuse to write about is the one who is so tangled in my mind that I know I can never be with him.

I had one night with East Wilder, and I know that’s all there will ever be.

He broke my heart without even trying.

Yet now I can’t seem to write a single verse and I need a place to hide while I figure out who I am. The Wilder Retreat will have to be my refuge as the Wilders prepare for my best friend’s wedding.

And when I’m there, I refuse to fall for East again.

Even if the dark shadows in his eyes draw me in. And the dangers of his past might be the one thing that forces us to finally give in.

My  rating: 5 out of 5 stars
My review:

“I gave myself to the future you brought but you took what you wanted and never looked back.  For I am nothing, nothing in your eyes.  But I am everything in mine.”

Stay Here With Me is the fifth book in The Wilder Brothers series and was a great addition to an already awesome series.  I just cannot seem to get enough of the Wilder family.  I love large family troupes with grumpy/sunshine characters, and this is a series I am hooked on.  I have been patiently waiting for this book which is East Wilder and Lark Thornbird’s story.  The book starts a few months after Lark visited the resort and they slept together.  Now Lark’s best friend, Bethany, is marrying one of the Wilder brothers so ignoring one another is going to be impossible.

“I thought you were the path to my future, but in the end, you were the fork in the road I refused to take.”

Lark, a famous singer and songwriter, had lost all her inspiration to write songs. She knew what she wanted to write, but she had made a promise to East.  Like everyone else, he believed she used people in her life and wrote about their souls and feelings for fame and fortune, but she never wrote about people she loved.  With her deadline coming up, Lark decides to return to the Wilder Retreat and hopes to find some inspiration while visiting with her best friend, Bethany.

“The only way to stop loving you is to never love at all…”

East Wilder was discharged from the military after an injury and joined his brothers in opening their retreat.  He met Lark when she came to the retreat to see his soon-to-be sister-in-law.  He hated how much he wanted her and all the feelings she made him have.  He knew she didn’t want more from him. They didn’t have a future together and he knew it would hurt when she finally left. 

I loved watching East and Lark as they struggled their way to finding their happy ever after together.  East had to get over the guilt he felt for surviving when his other friends died before he finally realizes he want a future with Lark.  This book was emotional and had me in tears, but I highly recommend it.  After reading the last chapter and getting a peak into Elliot’s story, I cannot wait for the next 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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