2nd book in the Real Men Knit series
Sometimes fireman Lucas Strong feels like he can only find any peace and quiet at the local laundromat, where every day is rinse and repeat — until a fateful run-in with his high school crush.
Hoping to attract more customers to his family’s knitting shop, Lucas Strong participated in an FDNY charity calendar and accidentally became a local celebrity. The only place he can find solace is Scrubs—a 24/7 laundromat where he can disappear for a couple of hours. But Lucas’s soapy sanctuary is shaken by an inquisitive little girl with a late-night interest in knitting, whose mother is his old school crush.
Sydney Harris knows that Harlem is like any other small town, and everyone is probably whispering about how she left such a good man—and a good life—behind to wash and fold laundry by the pound. If only they knew the truth. But Sydney will always put her daughter’s happiness first, even if that means moving back to Harlem and facing her past.
What Sydney never expected was to see Lucas again. A long-forgotten attraction kicks into high gear as Lucas and Sydney start to spend time together at the laundromat, and they must decide if this is true love or just an infatuation, thin and fragile as a soap bubble.
CW: toxic relationship
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Review
Sadly, I’m disappointed by this book. It doesn’t add anything to the series, and I wouldn’t have chosen this brother to continue it.
There is one element that I really like, which is the OKG. I missed them. They are just the best; I want to be friends with this group of elderly women.
I don’t particularly like the characters and this couple, you don’t have a ton of interactions between them, and when there are some, it’s like having children having an argument. In addition, many moments of their relationship are told and not shown, making them hard to be a credible couple. Also, they spend too much time talking about their problems and ways of overcoming them, which starts to be repetitive. Lastly, the problem that will trigger some “events” is so predictable that, combined with the miscommunication, it makes me painful to continue.
I was so sad not to feel the atmosphere of Harlem like it was in the previous book. Unfortunately, this sense of community doesn’t really exist in this one; the book is only focused on the couple, and I struggled to dive into it. Also, the pace is so strange, some chapters are concise, and others are so long that it slows the pace, and as you change characters, you feel lost very quickly. Thanks to the audiobook, I could happily continue it; otherwise, I would have DNFed it.
I don’t think I will continue this series, maybe the book for Damian, but that’s all.
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