~ Finley ~

Author: Ella Frank
Title: Finley
Series: Sunset Cove 1 (Temptation spin-off)
Pages: 275
Release date: 2016 March
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Rating: ★★★★★ (4,5)


Blurb: 

***A spin-off from the Temptation Series***

It's time to come home, Finn.
It’s been seven years since Daniel Finley left his hometown in Florida for the hustle and bustle of Chicago’s city life.
Since then, he’s worked hard for his position at the prestigious law firm Leighton & Associates, even when it’s caused distance and isolation from his family and friends. But that’s all about to change.
On his thirtieth birthday, he receives the one thing he never dared hope for. Something that was promised to him years earlier—a note. One simple sentence from the man he’s never been able to forget.
Six words will forever change the course of their lives.
Brantley Hayes has it all. Or so he thinks. When he first made the decision to take a job down in Florida, his family thought he was crazy. But, after years of living in the quiet beach town, he finally feels a sense of community. He’s surrounded himself with friends who are like family, has a job he loves, and owns a spectacular beachfront property that is his sanctuary.
Yet he still feels unfulfilled, as if a piece of the puzzle is missing, and he knows exactly which piece it is. On an impulse, he follows through with a promise he made years earlier. A promise to call home the one he sent away.
Nothing is as simple as it seems.
After years of separation, the former lovers are reunited, but Brantley wasn’t expecting to encounter the high walls now guarding Daniel’s heart.
Daniel may not be the same person he was when he left, but he knows that the first step to healing is the note in his hand.

My review: 

So after I read PresLocke last weekend, I just needed to know Finn and Brantley's story. And Jordan and Derek's too, so that's next.

Teacher/student are one of my favorite trope, so I was really happy to find out that Finn and Brantley are just like that. But I had only one probleme with that - it was mostly in the past.

This book was full with hurt and love. I loved Finn and Brantley in the present and loved them back in the past too, but I needed more from their past. More real teacher/student scenes where you can tell that they were really that. But I loved this story this way too. 

I missed more romance and erotica in the present, and more Brantley. It was like Finn was the main event of this book. What he did, how he did it, who he was without Brantley and who he was with his love of his life. I wanted more Brantley, more of his emotions, more of his decisions and more of his love. 

The story was good, the characters lovely, and the hurt/comfort just awesome. And the ending...god, I wanted to cry so bad. If I haven't known that it would be HEA I would be really pissed. But everything is good, and Finn and Brantley just perfect. 

Loved this book, but I think it could be a bit better, so 4,5star for me.