TITLE: Always Have
AUTHOR: Claire Kingsley
SERIES: Always
SERIES ORDER: 1
PUBLISHED: 09/20/2016
AVAILABLE IN KU: Yes
GENRE: Contemporary Romance
RATING: 4/5
BLURB:
Kylie's best friend Braxton is the hottest man she's ever known, with a rock hard body and a smile that melts the panties off every woman he meets.
Except Kylie. Mostly.
Kylie is anxious to get off the dating carousel and find something real. Despite the way Braxton tends to suck the air from her lungs, she knows he's trouble. He's just another player, and she's tired of the game.
But Braxton isn't the man she thinks.
The real reason he's sh*t with women is simple. None of the women he's with are the one he wants. None of them are Kylie.
He wants to love her in every way imaginable, but there's always something in the way. So he stays her friend, watching her date men who are too stupid to realize how special she is. Always worried the next one won't be. The next one will be the man who takes her from him forever.
Loving Kylie risks every fiber of their friendship, but losing her might be more than Braxton can take.
***Always Have is a full-length, stand alone novel with a guaranteed HEA. It's a bad boy romance with a big heart, lots of feels, and a sexy-as-hell, dirty talking hero. Due to explicit language and content, this is intended for a mature audience.***
MY REVIEW:
Always Have is the first book in Claire Kingsley series, Always, that she released back in 2016. The series follows twins, Braxton and Selene, and their best friend, Kylie.
I thought this was a good story. I like the friends-to-lovers trope and this fit right in. Braxton and Kylie both like each other but neither have made a move until Braxton realizes what he could be giving up when Kylie seems to be moving on with someone that he knows. I wasn’t a big fan of Selene. I sympathized with her and her bad luck with dating but I thought it was unfair when she inadvertently made Braxton choose between her or Kylie. I get it, he had a player mentality but she should have picked up on some clues that he was acting different around her (aside from making moon eyes.) And then for Braxton to just easily give up on Kylie; he didn’t think that breaking up with her would cause pretty much the same thing that Selene was afraid would happen if they got together?
I did appreciate that Selene realized what she did when she saw how Kylie and Braxton were acting post-breakup and that she helped Braxton in his “get Kylie back” plan.
I’m going to continue reading the series because I am interested in what’s next for Braxton and Kylie; and for Selene.