Review / Release Blitz: An Unfinished Memory (Oil Knights #3) by Marie Johnston

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🔥Small Town
🔥Second Chance
🔥Best Friend's Brother

I never keep secrets from my best friend, but I’m not sure how to tell her I’m sneaking around with her brother…who’s also my ex-husband.

I might be single, but I’m not ready to mingle. I should’ve stayed home from the street dance. My feet are barely surviving the two-step and my dance partners are looking for dates while I’m only interested in forgetting the man I was once married to.

The night’s about to end with bruised toes and a rain storm when the guy who swept me off my feet years ago cuts in right before the downpour starts. Wilder Knight has always been the best dance partner I’ve ever had. Just not the best husband.

Once the storm hits, we take refuge in his pickup, but that isn’t all we do. After steaming up the windows and losing my underwear, I make a habit out of hooking up with my ex-husband.

Only the longer we continue, the easier it is to see why our marriage fell apart. I couldn’t get over him the first time and losing him a second time might destroy the secure life I’ve built for myself, leaving me to ask… Were we better left an unfinished memory?

MY REVIEW

Sutton and Wilder have been divorced for over a year, but neither has really moved on. It's hard in their small town to move on and date someone new when your ex is right there. But though they divorced, it wasn't because of lack of feelings, (more like lack of prioritizing) so one hookup leads them right back to where they were before - together. But...they can't do it publicly because her best friend is also his sister, and they know they can't possibly admit to her they're thinking of trying again, not after she supported them both through the divorce. Have they learned enough to make a relationship work this time? Or will Sutton find herself once again so far down on Wilder's list of priorities, that she has to leave, for her own sake?

Wilder wants so badly to make his relationship work (again) with his ex, but he seems not to be getting just why they divorced, and it's having the same affect on Sutton that it did before. He has always felt like he has to help everyone else around him, be on shift as a sheriff deputy all the time, that he made Sutton feel like an afterthought, and he's doing it again. If he can't stand up to his boss, and everyone else around him who demands all his attention, then their new relationship isn't going to last any more than their marriage did.

I really liked this second chance story. Sutton and Wilder felt like a very real couple who let their marriage implode, and couldn't quite get it right the second time, until he had an epiphany of sorts. I have to admit that I was wondering if Sutton really should have tried again with Wilder, because he was one damn clueless guy. He couldn't see it, see how he treated her like she was just background, took for granted that she'd just stick around and lap up the scraps of attention he gave her. He really left it a little too late for my tastes, but like the real feeling people they are, Sutton and Wilder finally got on the same page, even if it took them way too long to do so.

Meet Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston is a RITA® Finalist, and a best-selling and award-winning writer of paranormal and contemporary romance – and an avid reader of them both.

Several years ago, when kids started outnumbering adults in the house, Marie Johnston left her job as a public health microbiologist to stay at home. Settling into working part-time and shuttling kids around gave Marie the opportunity to think about what she wanted to be when she grew up. A die-hard science geek, she explored her previously thought to be non-existent creative side after much time spent making snowman crafts and coloring princesses. Having entertained thoughts of writing a book one day then subsequently deciding it would be too hard, she finally put the figurative pen to paper and began to type – and fell in love with story telling.

The Sigma Menace is the first series by Marie with Fever Claim being her first book EVER. She is humbled by the fact that people are willing to read to her books and looks forward to keeping readers entertained for many years.

Marie lives with her husband and four kids in North Dakota where the summers are gorgeous, the winters are brutal, and spring and fall are luxuries.

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