Thinly Veiled
Eliza Modiste
Contemporary Romance/Suspense
The past haunts her, the present beguiles her…and the future is ready to bring her full circle.
Claire Branson just moved across state lines into Salem, Virginia, and she wants her life to go right for once, please and thank you. Having freshly escaped from a criminal past and the ex-boyfriend associated with it, she needs routine. Monotony. A happiness that could feel…simple.
Luke Turner is simple – sexy, sarcastically sweet, and, above all, radiating innocence. He could be her simplicity, there’s no doubt about that. But with Claire’s past festering under the gauze of her quick runaway, could he keep his innocence?
And, more importantly, will they get out of everything alive?
Uncaged Review: This was a fun book, and even though I liked Luke and Claire and the friends to lover trope here, I was really more interested in the secondary characters, especially Liam. Claire needs to escape her past so she moves to Virginia with her friend Zoey. In the meantime, she gets a job at a bar where she meets Luke. Thinking he’s gay, she feels pretty safe hanging out with him. They all live in the same building, Luke, Liam, Zoey and Claire. But Claire’s past will come back to haunt her, so they devise a plan to fix it once and for all.
I would have rated this a bit higher, but when the main characters main pastime is getting drunk, it’s hard to relate to them as normally functioning human beings. There is a lot of humor, and one thing I liked was how they all become a family, it’s the family you choose, not the one you are born into that counts here.
Reviewed by Cyrene
4 Stars
