Older (Deluxe Edition)

I want to thank Jennifer Hartmann, Sourcebooks Bloom Books and NetGalley.Here’s my honest opinion about Older.
Overall score: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Dramma: 💧💧💧Sugar: 🧁🧁🧁Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tropes: age gap - forbidden love - best friend’s dad - slow burn - emotional scars - hurt/comfort
I loved it! No, I ADORED it!I devoured it in less than 24 hours, and I’m usually not that fast if I have to read in English that’s not my mother language!
This is the second novel by Jennifer Hartmann I read, and if Still beating left me a little bit confused about how to feel, with Older it was love at first chapter.
That’s how age gap and best friend’s dad tropes should be dealt with: you have to feel the drama, the danger, because it’s about a relationship that can destroy everything.It has to hurt, and that’s exactly what you get while reading Older.
There are yearning and restrain, joy and despair, hope and bittersweet delusion. Heart and mind collide in a continous emotional turmoil.
My heart was in my throat from the first to the last page. It was painful, but all the suffering was rewarded in the end.
The writing style is superb, extremely evocative.
I will never stop recommending it.
If you like angst, strong emotional pull and complex dynamics, that’s the book for you.