Whiskey Lullaby
by Stevie J. Cole
We all have guilty pleasures.
Mine was the boy my father took in. The guy everyone said I was too good for. The one I knew would ruin me.
But I couldn't help it. The way Noah Greyson's voice sounded when he sang whiskey lullabies to me in the dark; how perfect his arms felt wrapped around my stomach, his nose nuzzled in my hair- that's what made me fall. That intimacy was what made me so very weak. But now millions of women drift off to sleep while Noah sings the love story we wrote, and it was never meant for the world.
The worst mistake I made wasn’t loving him, it was thinking he loved me, too.
At least, that’s what I thought until now…
Spice Level: 2.5/6 | Story Score: 6/10 | Rating: 3.25/5 |
I needed a book with a drink on the cover and I couldn’t find what I was looking for, which still annoys me, so instead I chose this because even though it’s not a cup, bottle, or glass of a drink, the word whiskey counts, right? Sure it does. My first choice wasn’t KU so here we were. Also, it was a new author. THEN I saw someone ask if this was based on Sam Hunt’s relationship with his now-wife and the answer was yes. Loosely based, I’m sure, but nonetheless, I was excited.
Ok, so Noah is a playboy in a small town. He sings at bars on the weekends. He’s apparently beautiful. He lives near and cares for his grandma who raised him, but he tends to get into quite a bit of trouble. But she makes him drive her to church on Sundays and one week he’s running late, so instead of going to her regular church, they end up a town over and he sees a girl that he instantly knows he could love. Thanks to a stint in jail, Noah lost his previous job so the preacher of that church offers him some work on his farm.
Hannah is a nurse who moves home because her mom has cancer. She’s really just trying desperately to deal with losing her.
He sees her later at the bar and hits on her and she pretty much calls him out on his pursuits and tells him that she’s not that easy. Turns out her dad is the preacher and she and he become friends with sexual tension for a long time. He knows he wants her and that she’s the type of girl you don’t let go of, but at the same time, he also knows he’s going to hurt her and she’s going to hate him.
Eventually they kiss…and mess around…and have sex. The next morning he immediately throws up his guard to “test” her and he loses her. He goes on to become a famous musician and she takes a traveling nurse job. Noah comes home for an overnight rest stop and finds a stack of letters that Hannah wrote…sent to him by her mother before she passed. While reading them , he FINALLY realizes that she loved him and he goes to find her…but then can’t find her.
So he releases a video to have the world help find her. And he goes to see her. And she says no. Then he gives her the letter from her mom, and then, poof, HEA.
Ummmmmmm, this was a book of self-sabotage and it was difficult. Honestly the overall feel of this book made me feel gray and bummed and… I don’t even know the right emotion to use. Bleak? Helpless? Hopeless? I don’t know. It just isn’t a feel-good story. It hurt me enough that I had to look up and see if they were still together and it looks like they still have a volatile relationship and then I was even more upset, so…
I don’t recommend this one.
Standalone | 304 Pages | Trope Challenge: Rags to Riches |
God, I wanted to kiss him, but I was terrified. Because I was pretty sure knowing what his lips felt like against mine would be a lethal dose of a drug I didn’t need, but still, I closed my eyes. “Damn,” he breathed against my mouth. “You’re gonna hate me before this is all over.”
- Whiskey Lullaby by Stevie J. Cole
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