FOUND by Claudia Burgoa.
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Found by Claudia Burgoa
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Synopsis:
All I’ve ever wanted was for someone to choose me. My mother didn’t. My father didn’t. The beautiful boy next door, who grew up to marry me, didn’t. Neither did the next man with whom I thought my heart was safe. Back in the Bay area, three thousand miles from New York City, I can start fresh. Become one with the sea again, rise or fall on the tide of my own choices. But on the first day of my bright new life, the darkest shadows of my past follow me through my office door. The two men whose names are definitely not on my five-year plan. If I let it consume me—my need for one man, my love for the other—the darkness will swallow me whole. I can’t let that happen. Not again. This time, the waves of emotion crashing against my heart won’t drown me. This time, I get to choose my happy ending.
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Title: Found
Author: Claudia Burgoa
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Series or Standalone: Standalone (But does follow previous books featuring the brothers)
Rating: ★★★★
This book took me by surprise.
I knew going into this,
based on the blurb that there was going to be a love triangle of some sort
here.
I will say I have not
read this author before this story, so obviously also have never read the
previous books that have featured these characters in some small part that came
before.
I don’t usually
travel down the path of love triangles in my romance novels. It’s just not a
preference, but there was something about this blurb that made me want to try.
My hat is off to this
author for taking something this particular reader doesn’t like and making me
invest in it. I enjoyed the family dynamic here, almost as much as I did
watching the two people I felt deserved to be together come to that decision. She
really did take this piece of relationship advice, If there is still lingering
feels of any kind or no real resolution to the relationship, you may not be
able to successfully navigate any relationship, the right one even, that may
come next, and work it.
Because Elliot and Hazel,
they were the epitome of that. Scott and her though, while at times, seemingly
based in only the sexual relationship, were way more than that. They helped
heal each other through this, and in turn you got to see both of them grow in
the instances that were shown of them together. It was pretty much a no-brainer
where I wanted this to go.
And go it did, but
not without a whole lot of back and forth, confusion and soul searching thrown
in. This wasn’t an easy ride for any of the people that were in it, but it did
at times feel like a very real one. I can’t say for certain, I wouldn’t do or
even say some of the things these characters did, so it read real.
I think the only
thing I missed here, especially with the way it was mentioned, and even the background
you’re given on other characters who had faced other equally as debilitating things,
was more delving into the depression that Hazel experiences. It wasn’t as
fleshed out as I would have liked. Merely appearing at times to be just
something that comes up in conversation. So, while I think the author did
something just by mentioning it, I think she could have done so much more in
that particular regard.
As I said above
though, overall this was a great read, and my hat is off to the author again
for hooking me into a situation I normally as a book reader wouldn’t drive head
first into and making me enjoy it. I’m looking forward to seeing and reading
more from this author in the future.
My thanks to the
author and all others involved in letting me read an ARC of this story. Hazel,
Scott, hell, the whole family of characters, their journeys I’m glad to have
taken the time and the chance to experience.
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AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Claudia is an award-winning, international bestselling author. She lives in Colorado working for a small IT company, managing her household filled with three confused dogs, two daughters wrought with fandoms and a son who thinks he’s the boss of the house. And a wonderful husband who shares her love for all things geek. To survive she works continually to find purpose for the voices flitting through her head, plus she consumes high quantities of chocolate to keep the last threads of sanity intact.
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