*Warning: I have already read
the books I am covering, any and all posts may and do contain spoilers.
Overall My Sweetest Escape is a good read but not something I
would gush about over coffee convincing a friend to read. A lot of books in this genre are self
published and you can end up buying a nightmare of a book to get through.
Escape was an easy read without constant publishing and editing errors. It was
sweet. In my opinion a little too PG though, I like my books a little steamier;
more sex scenes. Scenes that get you a little hot and bothered. This book just
doesn’t do that. It’s a cutesy read about two people with secrets and self hate
that fall for each other and bring one another out of a dark place.
Even though Escape is book 2, it can basically be read as a stand-alone.
The characters from Mistake are heavily integrated in Escape so you still get
glimpses into their lives since Jos has taken up residents in their newly
acquired Yellowfield home. I did think it was odd the author had neatly paired
off all the main co-characters in the first novel and then had two brand new
characters for the second installment.
You didn’t get the chance to have someone to root for in part 2.
Normally books that take on new characters in book 2 focus on the friend or
roommate who was there for the ride in part 1. You had already been hoping for
the happily ever after for that person by the time you sit down to read their
story. Jos and Dusty are characters that were not in Mistake at all. I do think
it would have been better to have some overlap between the two books. Like if
Jos would have come for a visit one weekend in book 1 and been a total train
wreck or if Hunter would have known Dusty before and we got a view into him and
his relationship with all the Yellowfield House members.
