Sweet Thing by Renee Carlino
Sweet Thing by Renee Carlino
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Sweet thing by Renee Carlino |
“Never.”
A USA TODAY bestselling contemporary romance about the complexities of love and self-discovery in the early post-college years.
Mia Kelly thinks she has it all figured out. She’s an Ivy League graduate, a classically trained pianist, and the beloved daughter of a sensible mother and offbeat father. Yet Mia has been stalling since graduation, torn between putting her business degree to use and exploring music, her true love.
When her father unexpectedly dies, she decides to pick up the threads of his life while she figures out her own. Uprooting herself from Ann Arbor to New York City, Mia takes over her father’s café, a treasured neighborhood institution that plays host to undiscovered musicians and artists. She’s denied herself the thrilling and unpredictable life of a musician, but a chance encounter with Will, a sweet, gorgeous, and charming guitarist, offers her a glimpse of what could be. When Will becomes her friend and then her roommate, she does everything in her power to suppress her passions—for him, for music—but her father’s legacy slowly opens her heart to the possibility of something more.
Sweet Thing was a sweet, heart breaking and romantic story that kept me up reading all night!
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“…sometimes we figure things out and then life changes and we have to figure it all out again.”
Hit hard by the death of her father, Mia decides to move to NYC for a while to sort through his things and take over the cafe he ran. On her way, a chance meeting in an airport crosses her paths with a gorgeous musician, Will. Something about them just clicks and they spend the entire flight talking about their shared love of music.
Turns out she has an apartment for rent and he’s looking for a new place to stay and shortly afterwards they become roommates. Mia insists on keeping things strictly platonic between them – ignoring the pull she feels towards him. She has her life planned out ahead of her – she wants a life partner who can give her stability. Her father was a musician and her parents split when she was young giving her the fear that a relationship with Will, who is so much like her father in spirit, will just end up breaking her heart and so she strongly resists the temptation.
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“And so it began, my secret and suppressed obsession with the sensitive, tortured, artist soul. An obsession I was still fighting tooth and nail and one I wouldn’t admit to anyone, namely myself.”
This book is about her journey of realizing the important things with life. It’s heart breaking at times, frustrating and painful, but there are also sweet, beautiful moments that shine though.
Music plays a huge part in this book. Will is a musician on the brink of fame, Mia plays nearly every instruments, and her father lived and breathed music as well. The story is full of musical references that tie everything together.
Will is now on my list of favorite rockstar boyfriends. With his crooked smile, tattoos and an adorable fear of flying, he was hard not to fall for. I don’t think he could have been more adorable if he tried. He was just so sweet, loving, and so endlessly PATIENT not to mention gorgeous and talented as well. Oh, and he cuddled Mia’s dog at night when it was sick. I dare you to read that scene and not have your heart just melt into a puddle of goo.
As frustrating as Mia could be at times, I still really liked her character – especially her love of compound swear words, lol.
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“There are at least five swear words I like better than fuck. My favorites are compound words like apeshit, craphat or batshit, but above all, my numero uno, all-time favorite swear word is assclown, without a doubt. Asshat runs a close second. I must say, very few things give me greater pleasure than calling someone an assclown when they really fit the bill. I love it more than puppies and baby seals.”
The middle of the book was painful for me, but not in a way that made me
dislike the book, just in a way that hurt. It had what I’d call quiet
angst. It didn’t make me want to rip my hair out or throw my kindle, but
I still just wanted to shake sense into Mia and scream in her face that
what she was looking for was standing right in front of her. Will was
just so perfect and clearly so desperately in love with her ♥
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Now, this isn’t a love triangle story technically, but there are other relationships that happen on the side. I guess you could say they’re mistakes ones. But you would tell always that they were wrong and they never lasted. It was always Will and Mia at the heart of it all, but it just took Mia a long time to give in to that fact.
Despite romance playing a huge, central role in this book, it’s also just as much a journey of Mia’s self discovery, of piecing together her past, and in doing so finding what was holding her back from Will in the first place.
And in case you’re wondering about the title of the book: “sweet thing”. It’s what Will calls her, right from the start of the book. C’mon, tell me that’s not just fucking adorable??? *melt*
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I’ve been asked if it’s a rockstar book and… hmmmm, yes and no. I guess you could call it one. Will does become a bit of a rockstar and there are all the associated issues that go with being with someone on the brink of fame. As I said, music plays a huge part in this story, as does him becoming a little bit famous, but that isn’t the central theme of the story, it’s more just a part of it.
The story is very well written. The writing is smooth and captivating and keeps you totally immersed in the story. I read it in one sitting and didn’t want to put it down.
I loved Will and Mia and really enjoyed their story. I wish they (well, Mia) hadn’t made so many choices that kept them apart but that’s kind of the way life is, right? It’s imperfect and the journey isn’t always smooth but thankfully their story had a beautiful, happy ending (epilogue and all) that left me smiling.
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