🌊𝓢𝓐𝓛𝓣 - 𝓢𝓾𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓻 𝓝𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 3 - 𝓡𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀🌊 

 

Author: LA Ferro 

 

Couple: Cameron Salt & Everett Callahan 

 

Tropes: Best friend’s daughter, Age gap, Forbidden, Secret romance, Angsty, Pining, Dad’s best friend, Roommates x forced proximity, workplace romance 

 

Review: SALT is a book that stayed with me way after I finished the book. LA Ferro tackled the age-gap x taboo and forbidden tropes in a way that made you forget that Cameron and Everett the epitome of forbidden romance couples! From the beginning I knew this book was going to hit me in ways that would make me think of the bigger story and I cannot express how Cameron and Everett tugged at the heartstrings while bumbling their way to and HEA! 

 

Cameron Salt is a young woman who knows what she wants and has no qualms about going after it. I adored her character and all the strengths, weaknesses, insecurities and turmoil she went through in this book and LA Ferro truly did her story justice in SALT. The stubbornness we see from her is ASTOUNDING and I felt like my heart broke and mended SO. MANY. TIMES. in this book! The obsession she has with Everett was both concerning yet adorable at times and I loved how she did not bend to Everett’s will at all in this book. 

 

The thing I enjoyed most about her character was how she was not just the heiress or gold-digger that one may think of a young woman living in a billionaire’s house. Her desire to become a designer and keep her work hours all the while deciding to pursue starting her own business just added to the layers of her story and made me love her more. 

 

Everett was a man who tore a whole in my heart. I found myself both loving his moral code and hating him for what he put Cameron through. The ups and downs this man had in this book made me want to rip my hair out and then give him a hug. The emotional turmoil that Everett experiences in this book took on a wide range of guilt, lust, desire, hate, remorse and obsession as he battled with his mind to accept his growing attraction to Cameron. LA Ferro was able to shine in Everett’s chapters since she created just amount of taboo and forbidden as his feelings developed. I can say I truly enjoyed the push and pull he had with Cam. The way he couldn’t allow her to be far away but also wanted to hate her infiltrating his mind, work and goals. 

 

SALT is a SLOW BURN and while the romance is a huge part of the emotional journey these two go on, the overall plot was what sucked me in. This book has it all - suspense, romance, family secrets and fierce women. Cameron’s bonds with Stormy and Connor. The way Connor accepted her relationship with his father and was able to be mature enough to ease the strain between them made me curious for his story and I will be adding it to my list! I also found that Parker, Nash, Stormy, Lauren and the other Callahan brothers were strong secondary characters that added a ton to this plot. The sense of found family and strong bonds left me wishing we could have more of these two but also on my toes for the next book within this world of emotional romances! 

 

Rating: 5/5, SALT is a rollercoaster romance full of turmoil, pining, angst and slow burn loving that will destroy you while making you come back for more! 

 

Thank you Hambright PR & LA Ferro for the eARC copy!