5/24/2023 0 Comments Unraveled by Courtney Milan![]() ![]() The realistic, loving, and often painful sibling relationships between Ash, Mark, and Smite kept me coming back for book after book, and they concluded so perfectly in Unraveled. The Turners each overcome their insane mother’s abuse in different ways, but the full background unfolds throughout the trilogy, finally resolving by the end of Smite’s tale. ![]() As common as “brothers” series are, I’ve never read a romance novel that connects separate stories so well. Speaking of the Turners, Milan elevates the “brothers” trope to new heights-both in the overall series and Unraveled specifically. I’m a huge sucker for well-timed context for old characters in a new setting, and Milan delivered. He values justice over everything because he wants to prevent the starvation and abuse he experienced himself. He fears intimacy because of his trauma-filled past, not because he’s too proud to hang out with Ash. Viewed from a new perspective, Smite’s odd reticence and black-and-white view of morality just make sense. Smite’s not the emotionless automaton that he seems in the first two Turner books, but his character hasn’t dramatically changed since his scenes in Ash and Mark’s stories, either. No flat caricatures for Milan-each main and secondary character breathed new life in Unraveled, regardless of their past appearances. The characters in this novel surprised me with their depth. Unraveled = delicious hot cocoa, if hot cocoa also made me cry. ![]()
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