Book Review: Where We Began By Nora Flite

Where We Began
(Where We Began Duet #1)
By Nora Flite

From USA Today Bestselling Author Nora Flite comes a brand new sexy and thrilling second chance romance.

I'm a hostage.

The food is fancy, the carpets are lush, but this bed isn't mine. I don't belong here and my head and heart know it. I'm painfully alone.

And then I'm not.

The first time I meet Dominic Bradley, he saves me from a maid with a pair of scissors. This sweet boy is nothing like the rest of his family. He becomes the only sunlight in these smothering halls. The one person holding me together.

When he leaves for six years, it shreds my soul.

It's nothing compared to when he comes back.

Gone is my sweet boy. In his place is a hardened soldier ready to obey his father. He's gained new demons; and I've lost my only friend. Dominic acts like he's forgotten our past. But I can't. It's impossible to forget the moment I fell in love.

I know where we began.

I'm not sure where we'll end.

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My Review:

This was a good book, but the synopsis led me to believe this was going to be much much darker than it was. I would categorize this under suspense bordering on contemporary before anything resembling "dark" (which is how a lot of people were describing this for some reason).

I was expecting Laiken's situation to be worse than it ended up being. The way this story gets set up makes it so it's tame nature works against it. Getting the story from Laiken's perspective makes it so you don't know the real impact of her dad's situation with this family. There isn't a sense of urgency from her where her dad is concerned. She's just happy to wait him out until, for her, the unthinkable happens. That's where things start to move somewhere at a very slow pace.

Dominic needed more development as a character. The only thing that kept me interested in him was his "big secret". He barely had a personality in between all that. I would have liked more witty banter between him and Laiken so I could have the semblance of chemistry between them.

The writing style was good but the pacing as too slow for me. The overall story was okay. I had an inkling that this was going to end in a cliffhanger and I wasn't proven wrong. 

My Favorite Quotes:

"I know all too well what hope is good for: creating a happy glow that leaves a darker shadow in its wake when it's snuffed out."

"Being strong is all I have [...]. I have to trust that this is all going to pay off. If I don't what do I have left?"

"Your heart can't help you get home [...]."

My Rating: