Hopeless | Elsie Silver
"it bothers me that what we're doing here can be filed away as fake when it's the most real thing i've felt in my life."
Beau Eaton is the closed off brother of the series. He is in the military as part of Canada's most elite task force and cannot speak of it with anyone in his family. Bailey, whom we met before is a bartender at the local bar and a part of the town's most outcast family. I wasn't too excited for their story because we didn't really see much of these characters in previous books, but still wanted to read it.
Beau is back home, discharged from the military, after being MIA and getting badly injured. We learned of this is in Jasper's book, when we were told that Harvey went to see him as he was severely injured. We learned that his feel were burned after he missed the chopper in order to save journalist who'd been a captive for while, and burned his feet to the point of needing skin grafts. This all makes him self-conscious and sullen. His behaviour attracts negative attention from locals, and even his family in threating on ice around him.
Baily belongs to the outcast Jensen family and her brothers are petty criminals we saw the Eatons pull pranks on previously. She works at the local bar, lives in trailer on her family's land, pays the mortgage for the house because her brothers' gave it as a condition to be able to part on their land, and saves up as much as she can to escape. Everyone looks at her with disgust and she cannot wait to leave and escape her family's tarnished reputation that follows her everywhere, despite her being a good person. She is even unable to get another job because of it.
And that is what leads to this relationship. As she sneaks into Beau's pond for a midnight swim, he catcher her. They start talking and he offers her a solution. They should pretend to get engaged - her reputation will improve in proximity t him and he can get his family off his back. Things, of course, escalate and soon real feelings are cropping up. But Baily is a young woman who's been lusting after Beau for a while and her horniness is off the charts. He tries to put up a wall but that doesn't last. They get intimate relatively quickly and he even shavers her pubic hair, so that should tell you something. Baily's also constantly asking slightly to very inappropriate questions about sex at the most random times, so that was something to surprise you.
I don't know. This is my least liked book of the series and it's probably because of the characters. They just weren't that interesting and their story was really lackluster. The random drama tacked in at the end just for the sake of having a conflict was truly baffling. And though I truly don't mind an age gap, sometime ever prefer it, these two were just too different. She was young but sounded younger than her age, very naive, and due to his life experience he felt even older than he was due to how jaded he came across. And it kept being brought up in the most creepy-vibes ways. It didn't feel like opposites attract to me and simply fell flat.
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