One Last Time
by Roxie Noir
Seth Loveless has been my weakness since I was sixteen years old.
Two years ago, I moved back to my hometown. I started a business, bought a house, took up yoga, and went on hiatus from dating. Life is good.
If I never had to see Seth, it would be perfect.
After all, my history with my ex-boyfriend is anything but simple. It’s taken us years, but we’ve finally learned to live in the same town without killing each other.
Is there an elaborate set of rules governing our every casual interaction?
Yes.
Do I still think dirty, off-limits thoughts every single time I see him buying apples at the grocery store?
Of course. I’m only human, and Seth and I are practically experts at the two F’s: fighting, and…
...sleeping together.
Still, we’re managing just fine.
And then?
He shows up at my sister’s wedding. The man looks like pure sex in a suit, handsome as the devil himself and twice as charming.
Worse, he claims he’s my date.
We flirt.
We dance.
We break every one of our carefully-crafted rules, and we… should stop.
Too bad I’m having the time of my life.
I know I should end it. After all the heartbreak, hurt, and anger we can’t be more than enemies.
But Seth asks me for one more night.
Just one night.
Then, we’re back to being virtual strangers to each other.
I know I should turn him down.
I know this ends with my heart shattered into a million pieces.
I know lunacy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
But I’ve always been bad at resisting a weakness.
Spice Level: 4/6 | Story Score: 6.5/10 | Rating: 3.5/5 |
The final book in the Loveless Brother series is Seth’s. I hadn’t read this one more than once, so I thought I’d go ahead and read it since I’d just read the previous two. Plus, he’s Caleb’s best friend…I couldn’t just walk away from him. Not to mention, Seth is a fantastic brother.
Admittedly, ‘Second Chance’ romances are among my least favorite, but this one… Where all the other brothers have two characters that you like and you’re rooting for, this one doesn’t most of the time. You’re either going to hate Seth or you’re going to hate Delilah. If you’ve read all the other books, you’re going to hate Delilah because it’s impossible to hate Seth after watching him hold his brothers together. Seth is also going to break your heart - which is something none of those other brothers thought to do to you.
This book is the picture of an emotionally toxic relationship and truthfully, this one doesn’t give you closure.
-SPOILERS-
Seth and Delilah were together through high school and college. When Seth tries to propose to fix their fraying relationship, Delilah dumps him. Less than a year later, she’s engaged. She gets married, divorced. That ends badly and she and Seth start a vicious cycle of hooking up and fighting - orally tearing each other to shreds every time.
Ok.
I hate bouncing back and forth in a relationship's timeline. I hate not having the answers to my questions until the last 15% of a book. I hate it even more when I don’t get those answers.
We don’t figure out why Seth and Delilah broke up in college until nearly the end. It’s summed up as they’re fighting a lot. Basically Delilah hates herself as a person and she tries to be a different person - insert the new boyfriend - all the while, Seth is pining over her, loving her. She was ‘it’ for him and Delilah just thinks ‘I suck as a person but if I marry this other guy, I can fake being the person I think I should be until I make it’.
Out one night, Seth (drunk) sees her and her engagement ring and loses his mind. Delilah, being the now-wonderful person she is, tells him that she never loved him.
Seth, heart-broken beyond repair, starts sleeping with anything female that will let him because HE THINKS THAT’S ALL HE’S GOOD FOR. My God, that broke my heart.
When Delilah’s marriage falls apart (because shocker: she still sucks as a person), she calls Seth. They hook up and then she discovers that he’s the “town bicycle” everyone is riding on.
What right does she have to be mad at this point?
Someone please explain it to me!
They fight and it’s awful. Then they do it again. And again.
Delilah is ASHAMED to be seen with him because she doesn’t want people to know she’s sleeping with someone that everyone else has. Snooty, judgmental bitch.
THEN. They go on a family vacation with her family. Seth finds a box of stuff she’s kept from her marriage/husband. He’s hurt and Delilah is STILL A BITCH.
Honestly, if you like Delilah in this book, feel free to write to me and try to convince me she’s a decent person. I’m not saying that Seth is a great person, but Delilah is infuriating.
Anyway, they obviously work it out.
Seth deserved better.
Book #5 in the Loveless Brothers series | 520 Pages | Trope Challenge: Right Person, Wrong Time |
“I don’t care what it’s called, we need to go there before someone catches us fucking against this wall.”
“Is that a prom—”
He puts the pad of one thumb over my mouth. “You know goddamn well it’s a promise,” he says.
- One Last Time by Roxie Noir
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