Title: Brave Enough to Love
Author: EmKay Connor
Rating Out of 5: 3.5 (Liked this)
My Bookshelves: Contemporary romance, Romantic suspense
Pace: Medium
Format: eBook, Novella
Year: 2022

A nice and short novella that was enjoyable, but not overly memorable. I enjoyed reading this and would be happy to pick up another EmKay Connor novella, but also wouldn’t be rushing to read one. Obviously, I’m very eh about the reading of this. That may also be because, at its core, this is a story about a couple who is on the verge of separation. It is about people who are still trying to be together, but too many mistakes and too much distance leads them to start to fracture. A kind of similar circumstance to myself when I was reading this, so it also might just be the fact that it was touching a little too close to home.

Again, something that felt a little too familiar – the fact that a lot of the issues, at least from Lou’s point of view is his voluntary distance. Rather than facing up to the difficulties in his relationship, he chose to pull away from Katie. Luckily, he does choose to own up to his shortcomings and work on being better. It’s almost too late, but I love that he’s able to actually see where his mistakes lie and work on improving himself.

Even though Lou realises his mistakes before being shot, the danger he finds himself in just helps to drive home how important his relationship is to him. I know that, even though I have not been in such a horrible situation, it took almost breaking to make me realise how much I don’t want to give up on the person I love more than anything else. Like I said, not a bad novella, but definitely one that hit a little bit too close to home in the reading of it.

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