Hold Me Today

My goodness was this book good. It was funny. It was sweet. It was sexy. It made me cry. It had great banter. It was well written. It had a great plot. There was no OW or OM drama. It had a great cast of diverse secondary characters. Both the main characters were very likable. Nick was swoon-worthy. He wasn't an asshole or a manwhore (thankfully), just an all around decent guy. Mina was also a great character. Not a virgin (again thankfully). In fact, one of the things I especially liked was that even though Mina had been crushing on Nick since she was a teen, she didn't sit around pining for him but moved on with her life. She was opening her own business. She slept with OM. Sure she still harbored a crush for the guy, but it didn't stop her from living. Last, it was all wrapped up in a sweet ending.



So with all that good stuff, why not 5-Stars? I thought it was a bit too long. I found that the story did drag here and there, and I struggled a little bit not to skim in places. This is what I would call a slow burn type of story as it takes quite a while for this couple to get their sh!t together. I think the story could have been about fifty pages shorter. But honestly, that was just a minor grievance, and all in all, I thought it was a fantastic book.