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Review: What I Should've Said by Max Monroe


What I Should've Said by Max Monroe is LIVE!

EBOOK: https://geni.us/WISS_ebook
PAPERBACK: https://geni.us/WISS_paperback
AUDIO: Coming Soon (To be released in May, date TBD soon. Narrated by Sebastian York and CJ Bloom)

What I Should’ve Said is available in ebook, paperback, Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program, and audio will come out sometime in May (date TBD).

WHAT IS WHAT I SHOULD'VE SAID ALL ABOUT?
👰Runaway Bride
🔥Enemies to Lovers
❤️Grumpy-Broody Alpha + Chatty Sunshine
🥵“I don’t like this woman but I’ll kill anyone who hurts her” vibes
🏡Smalltown Charm
🫢Dark Secrets
🥹EMOTIONAL, pull-at-your-heartstrings, you’ll-think-about-this-book-for-days.


BLURB
When grumpy, muscled-up artist Bennett Bishop bothers to speak, it’s usually to say something you’re not ready to hear.

When he first speaks to Norah Ellis, a rambling runaway bride who hitchhikes a ride from him, it’s to tell her to get out of his truck and walk because she’s a pain in the a-s-s.


By appearance, Norah Ellis is a fancy fashionista who’s spent the last several years living the good life in the city—expensive apartments, highbrow events, and a fiancé with wealth and good looks. The only problem is that she didn’t choose any of it for herself.

On the day of her July wedding, thanks to a letter from a stranger, Norah’s world turns upside down. She runs for the hills of Vermont to start a new life, but what’s waiting for her, between her estranged sister, the townspeople, and bad-boy Bennett Bishop himself, is way more than she bargained for.

Enemies turn to lovers, strangers become friends, dark secrets bust open like cans of worms, and most of all…Summer will never be the same.

Disclaimer: What I Should’ve Said is a full-length standalone novel. And while it does contain the Max Monroe humor and spice you know and love, this book is a deep, emotional story that will pull at your heartstrings like you’ve never experienced. Summer will never be the same.

MY REVIEW


Norah couldn't think of a better place to run to after she found out something unbearable about her fiancé than to her sister, even though they've not spoken in years. So now she's in this small Vermont town, hoping to find a place to just rest while she figures out what to do with her life. She wasn't necessarily expecting the red carpet to be rolled out, but this grumpy guy she meets on the way into town hates her on sight and each encounter they've had since just reinforces it. Too bad that he ends up being her boss, and his daughter ends up being the most adorable little girl she's ever met, and will brighten up her life immeasurably.


"Pink buddies forever, Summblebee."

So I knew going into this book that there were warnings that the cover wasn't necessarily an indicator of the tone of What I Should've Said, and yeah, it definitely isn't, but...it's at the same time very appropriate considering how important the color and the glasses are to the most important character. That being said, it didn't prepare me in any way for how much this story would break my heart. It's quite beautiful, funny and witty in parts, but so very heartbreaking in other parts, especially toward the end. Norah and Bennett's journey is a true love story. There are all kinds of love, some are transitory, some are instant but don't last, and some are forever. I can safely say this story will stay with me forever, too.

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