Rating: ...Literally Marvelous
Summary
Rue Siebert is not interested in romance. She is a brilliant biotech engineer at a start-up in Austin called Kline, along with her best friends---Tisha, who she's known since chilhood, and Florence, Kline's CEO.
Rue's career involves cutting edge research in food preservation and is directly related to her traumatic upbringing and history with food insecurity. She has clawed her way into a life of stability, producivity and contentment, and she has pushed romantic entanglements to the side in favor of one-time hookups focused solely on pleasure. After a potential one-night stand, Eli Killgore, turns out to be one of the founders of the company attempting to take over control of Kline, Rue is forced to balance her growing attraction and her loyalty to Florence.
Lindsay's Thoughts
This book is not your traditional beach read romance. Hazelwood deals with difficult topics, including abuse, food insecurity, death, and family upheaval. The main characters' reponse to their experiences with these incidents is to seek pleasure wherever they can find it, resulting in highly charged and explicity sexual encounters with each other. While the author's candidness with these themes may not be for every reader, I truly felt it made the small moments of emotional vulnerability and slow build to a deep, loving relationship between the MC's infinitely more gratifying (pun intended). This is a beautiful story of two people acknowledging each others emotional fractures and mending them through honesty, patience, and yes...sex.
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