Salt+Stilettos

I would have probably enjoyed this book more if I hadn't just read [b:Take a Hint, Dani Brown 49976087 Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) Talia Hibbert https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1572990974l/49976087.SY75.jpg 72583521]. I think that that book was more successful in portraying certain relationship dynamics.I did enjoy the first half of this book, the characters had wonderful chemistry. However, it all began to fall apart for me when they actually got together. It constantly felt like the hero was pushing the heroine into a relationship when she had been very clear, multiple times that that wasn't what she wanted. In [b:Take a Hint, Dani Brown 49976087 Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) Talia Hibbert https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1572990974l/49976087.SY75.jpg 72583521], the main characters' relationship organically deepens without the hero pushing or trying to change the heroine's wishes. In fact, he is very cautious not to superimpose his wishes on hers and I really appreciated that. On the one hand, the heroine in Salt+Stilettos was an adult with agency but as the book kept emphasising over and over again she was in a particularly vulnerable spot. This makes the fact that the hero constantly pushes her boundaries even more egregious in my book.That said, I liked most of this book, and excluding this irritating dynamic, I could see myself reading more Janet Walden-West.