2024 the best of me book review

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(as of Dec 14, 2024 18:10:08 UTC - Details)

She’s the love I never saw coming, but can I give her the best of me?

My family’s roots run deep, and my responsibilities are etched into every part of my life—my daughter, my family, and the Rhodes family business.

As a father, I’ve always put my daughter above everything. I built my world around her, living next door to my ex-wife, keeping the peace for the sake of our child.

I never expected to fall in love again. But then Aurora came into my life, and suddenly I felt something I hadn’t felt in years. I thought it would be simple—until I introduced her to my daughter.

My ex-wife's manipulation of our daughter, shatters the fragile balance I’d worked so hard to maintain, and now I’m faced with choices I never wanted to make. I hurt the only woman I’ve ever truly loved, and I don’t know if I can put the pieces back together.

Best Of Me is a billionaire single-father, second chance, found-family romance with a meddling ex-wife, enough angst to require a box of tissues and plenty of steam that may make a fan necessary. It features your favorite tropes:

🪻Single Father Romance
🪻Second Chance Romance
🪻Billionaire Romance
🪻Set in Savannah
🪻Ex-wife and daughter drama
🪻Found family
🪻Heroine is an architect
🪻Hero owns a hotel chain
🪻No cheating
🪻Complete standalone

From the Publisher

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CXZ62BR6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (May 9, 2024)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 9, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 6226 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 354 pages
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Hooked from the start
Review: I started this book on one of those silly book apps that demand so much money just to read. I was so bummed when i couldn't read past the first few chapters. The author really had me stuck and intrigued. But something told me to try Amazon because even though I use these apps I love my Amazon Kindle. And low and behold they it was and I immediately picked up from where I left off at and boy let me tell you that this book was amazing. It only took me a few hours to finish it because I was so captured with the story line. This is definitely one of the best books I have read in a while. Not to ruin it for anyone but it's about a divorced billionaire father that falls in love and makes really stupid mistakes throughout the book. I love Aurora she was sweet and kind but definitely had some backbone which I loved. I can't wait to read another book by this author.

Reviewer: Carole
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Read
Review: At first you meet two people you just want to shake but as you see them through the emotional process you start to get them. I loved that this series has started out with all... exaggerated...the characters haven't slept with each other. This book flowed really well. Not too much thought life and it had more dialogue. Nothing kills a story more that too much thought life. I liked how the story didn't have long overdrawn moments of drama but moved quickly and had characters speaking their minds quickly. Great start to this series. Hope the next is just as good. Would be nice if this author had an honest, real...plain jane. Not one that thinks she's plain but is actually plain. Most of her heroines are always beautiful.

Reviewer: Toni
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Allowed to cry 😭😭😭
Review: That is what Maya Alden allows me to do. She makes it okay to cry for her characters when I can't cry in real life. I can immerse myself in her world, and the heartbreak 💔 is so visceral that you can feel it yourself. By the end, I feel like a dandelion growing in a crack in the middle of the highway. Knowing that I will probably be run over by life, but hopefully for life and a HEA. Needless to say, I'm hooked.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best of me
Review: The male character in this book to me is written as an emotional abuser. I do not believe someone who treats a love interest like this ever truly changes. I do believe they act the change and do the honeymoon phase in an abuse cycle to get what they want. Added to the fact that second marriage have a lot of stress dealing with ex spouse and children from the previous relationship. This second chance had me thinking leave and move on.

Reviewer: Rochelle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: awesome!
Review: You won’t regret reading this book! It’s a great plot , well written.You’ll laugh , cry , stomp your feet , possibly throw something and swoon.I love their love for each other. I do think some more groveling work should’ve happened. If this happened to me some major major groveling on knees would need to happen. But there was groveling and he truly did love her and want to make up for it.

Reviewer: T. Reising
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: a nice story
Review: This was a good book, of 2 broken people who fall in love then things happen and they break up. He hurts the girl because he’s in pain, but realizes he needs the girl. So he’s scrambling trying to figure out how to get her back.

Reviewer: Cassandra
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This author knows how to write angst
Review: 🤍 Alphahole💜 Billionaire Romance🤍 Single Dad💜 Groveling/OW drama🤍 Check TW ⚠️🗺 Plot: 4/5🌎 World Building: 5/5📔 Cover: 5/5💁🏻‍♂️ MMC, Gabriel: 4.5/5💁‍♀️ FMC, Aurora: 5/5🌶 Spice: 2/5♥️ Pulls at heart strings: 5/5📄 Page Turner: 5/5🫣 Angst: 5/5🤍🖤 Dark: 1/5🔚 Ending: 5/5⚠️ Triggers: 3/5🥰 Overall view: 5/5🫶🏼 HEA: Yes!✖️ Multiple POVs: Yes🤥 Cheating: No🎭 OW/OM Drama: Yes🥉Third Act Break Up: NoThis is NOT my first book by this author.Just a taste 🗣Aurora is in love with Gabriel but she knows it cannot last. With her childhood she knows that he will leave her, because everyone does at some point and this is where our story begins....My Thoughts 💭The OWD was awesome! The groveling was amazing as well. Aurora didn't let him just come back as they once were she made him work for it. She had a lot of trauma that caused her lack of trust but I love that she really started paying attention to some of her own needs and not always giving Gabriel what he needed. The character development was awesome and it was nice to see Aurora finally get everything she deserved.She was so poised and polite whenever she was confronted by someone being purposefully mean. But showing her mama bear moment is what really made me love this woman!I loved this book and this author just has a great way of bringing out all of your feelings! Every book that I have read of hers just brings me butterflies and I am addicted to this authors writing 👏👏👏

Reviewer: Christine L.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This was a good romance with lots of angst, drama, romance, love and steam. A great 2nd Chance romance. I will need to read more of the series

Reviewer: Leyendo Forever
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 3.75⭐️Great OW drama. The single-father topic was great and it was originally set.I liked Sophia! She was written beautifully, with a very interesting and accurate teenage personality.I liked that there was a HEA and I can’t wait for the next book.

Reviewer: Sulina Mishra
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A very sweet and captivating story where love is portrayed not only as giving but also a strong support for the partner as well as making a family bond.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Well this had some heart break, some angry bits and some hot and steamy scenes, i really liked it. Would have liked more at the end, what happened with the ex wife??

Reviewer: laura.lovesreading
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Perfect start to a good grovel series.I loved the story and especially Aurora and Gabriel’s daughter.Gabriel did a change throughout the story, but at first he was very hard to like and if I’m honest a bit too weak.There is OW drama, groveling and personal growth and I’m absolutely here for it.You get to feel a vary of emotions, sadness, rage, love , forgiveness and so on.My heart broke for Aurora a few times, I even shed some tears, but the story was so worth it.