Is This Love?
By: Kaylee Ryan
Series: Everlasting Ink
Book # in Series: 2 out of 3
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Kaylee Ryan
Publication Date: March 19th, 2024
My Rating: ✮✮✮✮
My Reading Format: Advanced Copy Received To Review Honestly
Synopsis:
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you the continuation of the stand-alone series surrounding five best friends who co-own a tattoo studio. “Is This Love?” is an age gap, marriage of convenience, friends to lovers, small-town romance.
Legend
A marriage of convenience is one thing… but falling for your fake wife is all kinds of complicated.
Being married for a year is the only way to claim my inheritance. I couldn’t care less about the money. It’s not like I even knew my grandparents.
I wasn’t even considering it until Monroe volunteered. Sweet, sweet, Monroe. I’ve never let myself consider her as an option for me.
She’s been tucked safely away in a box labeled forbidden. That is until she takes my last name.
Monroe
It’s not like I planned to marry one of my friends… or fall for him.
One minute I offer to be his fake wife, and the next, we’re going through the motions— saying, “I do,” and playing house.
Legend is the kind of guy fantasies are made of—tall, dark, and tattooed. Now I’m sharing his bed and his last name for the next year.
Everything looks good on paper, and while this may have started out as playing pretend, the way I feel for him is the realest thing I’ve ever known.
As the weeks pass by, it doesn’t take long before either of us begins to question if we’re just friends or if this is this love after all.
OH. MY. HEART! I swear the men in Kaylee Ryan’s Everlasting Ink series just keep getting better and better! We are two down, and now have three more to go, and I’m ready for them all!!
Is This Love? Is the second book in Kaylee Ryan’s Everlasting Ink Series. We watched Roman and Emerson wade through their forbidden, brother’s best friend romance in the first novel, Does He Know? Now it’s time for Legend to find his happily ever after within Emerson’s best friend, Monroe! If you love the ‘fake’ romance trope, then hold on to your hearts! Kaylee Ryan amps up the fake marriage trope to a whole new level!! I hope you’re prepared for the SWOON Legend brings to this novel!
In My Own Words:
Legend Raines has just had his world rocked out from underneath him, and all it’s taken is a letter from a grandmother he’s never met. She left him an inheritance of 5 million dollars, but there are strings attached to this money. He has to be married for a year by the postage date of the letter, and her attorney will attend the wedding and he’ll be doing drop in visits to make sure the marriage isn’t a ruse. 5 million dollars is a lot, especially given the fact the men of Everlasting Ink have huge dreams of one day expanding their business…. What’s a man to do!?
Monroe Morrison has had enough with relationships. She’s finally figured out she needs to focus on herself, her career as a dental hygienist, and those that mean the world to her. So, when Legend comes to the group with an issue, Monroe inserts herself in the equation to help him out. I mean, it’s only a little under two years of her life. The men will be able to expand their business, and she’ll walk away knowing she helped a friend. A year of being married to the sexiest man she’s ever laid eyes, isn’t a hardship…. Or is it.
My Thoughts:
Kaylee Ryan has a way of pulling her readers in with Swoony heroes and flirty heroines. Legend and Monroe are the perfect example of why I will read anything this author has to offer!
Let’s start with Legend. I loved this man’s overall personality. If ever there was a boy next door character, it would be this man! He will literally go out of his way to help those in need, especially those in his small circle. When it comes to Monroe, thought, that consideration is amped up so much more. This man would move mountains for this woman, and it shows within every single page. Legend is definitely book boyfriend material!
And then we have Monroe. I loved how much of a flirt this woman is! I also loved that she was adamant that Legend keeps his money when the year was up and they parted ways. This woman is all about giving back and helping those in need. She deserves the world and who better of a person than Legend to give her exactly that.
One of my main ‘love’ points in this novel was watching the lines blur from friendship to relationship. I felt the chemistry brewing from the start! These two were meant to be, and there wasn’t a more perfect character to bring Legend to his knees than Monroe! Not only my heart, but my soul, were invested in this novel. I’m a fan of the swoony sweet talking heroes, and this man takes the cake!
Overall, I loved every aspect of this novel. The only reason I dropped a star was due to the fact that I wanted a little bit more time between these two. I wanted more conversation and more of them getting to know one another. If you’re a fan of friend to lover romances with the ‘fake’ relationship vibe, don’t hesitate, run to amazon, and grab this book!!
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Peace Love and Happy Reading,
Okay. I’ll give Ryan another chance with this one since you loved it so much!
I hope you enjoy it!