Review: Things I Wrote About

Things I Wrote About by Kelsey Humphreys
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Sadie met Shep when she tried to sneak into a party. He was newly transferred to her school, a football genius, already revered by half the school and lusted over by the half. Although he told her effectively 'go home little girl' she couldn't forget him and couldn't wait to go to high school.

Flip forward twenty years. Sadie is a best-selling romance novelist and several of her novels have been turned into films, Shep is a big-time football agent and they have history, the bad kind. Sadie's sister Sam is getting married to a fabulously wealthy British businessman and throwing a luxury destination wedding for 600 people over an entire week. Not only is Shep one of the groom's best friends, so is her ex-fiancé Dennis. There aren't enough Margaritas to ease that sort of pain, if Sadie drank anymore. Shep and Sadie have always had sharp banter and digs at each other, but can they keep their turbulent past under wraps for one week?

Told through flashbacks from both their points of view and present day (ditto) this book meanders back and forth through their will-they, won't they romance. It is also (I now see) the third in a series, so there is also a lot of reminders about other people's back stories and Sadie's four sisters, all of whom seem to have names beginning with S which makes it hard to tell them apart. Kelsey Humphreys seems to adopt the 'throw the kitchen sink' approach to novel writing because this book has everything death, abuse, addiction, divorce, miscarriage, and a bit more talk of praying to god than I am truly comfortable with.

All of the above mean that although I did enjoy this book it also felt awfully long (unfortunately I can't see how many pages) as we flashback to Sadie and Shep doing a rinse-and-repeat meeting, kissing, fighting, parting over the years.

Available on Kindle Unlimited.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.



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