Wild Love by Elsie Silver | ARC Book Review

Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1) by Elsie Silver

Pages: 464
Publish date: April 9th, 2024
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780349441634
Purchase: Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU – QBD

She’s been driving him wild for years.

The good kind of wild. The bad kind of wild.

But mostly, the kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend’s little sister and knowing you can’t have her.

Forbes may have labelled Ford Grant the World’s Hottest Billionaire, but all he cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in gorgeous small town Rose Hill. Something that comes to a screeching halt when he ends up face-to-face with a young girl who claims he’s her biological father. Now, he spends his days balancing business with parenting a sullen twelve-year-old, all while trying desperately to keep his hands the hell off his best friend’s sister, Rosie Belmont.

After living in the city, Rosie came blasting back into town like a storm. Beautiful, messy, and chaotic. And one wide-eyed, desperate plea for a job is all it takes for Ford to hire her. He vows to keep her at arm’s length. Tries to stick to scowls and grumpy one-liners. But with her, verbal sparring is a type of foreplay―friction that soon turns to blistering heat.

Ford knows damn well he shouldn’t cross this line. But shouldn’t and can’t are two very different things.

And the only thing he truly can’t do is resist her.

Wild Love:

I received an earc of Wild Love from Elsie and her in exchange for an honest review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings about the book.

The way I screamed when I knew that I was getting an arc of one of my most anticipated reads of the year. I cannot tell you how happy I was to receive Wild Love by Elsie Silver. And I wasn’t disappointed.

For me, it’s hard for Elsie Silver to do wrong. I was hesitant about this book because I loved the Chestnut Springs series, but I had nothing to worry about because it had so many things that I love. From brother’s best friend to single dad and billionaire this had all the right elements and it all worked.I am not going to lie it, it did take me a little while to get in, but honestly, it didn’t take that long. I think once I was in the story, everything fell into place.

Ford was made to be a dad. It didn’t come right away, but he just fell into it. There were a few missteps and it took him a while to get there, but when he did, it was oh so right. It was really nice seeing him slowly fall in love with being a father and his daughter.

Rosie is just what this story needed. She was this brightness that added another layer to Wild Love. I loved seeing her grow throughout the story and understand that some of the things that happened weren’t her fault and that it’s okay to ask for a little help.

The romance!!!! The romance was fan fucken fantastic. The pining!!! The pining is some of the best I’ve read in a love time. We know they both love each other, but they both won’t admit it for a while and when they do. Bam! It was brilliant, hot, smokey. It was everything that an Elsie Silver book is and more. They were hot together that is all that needs to be said. Elsie knows how to write smut that just bangs.

The dynamics between all the characters were exactly what I wanted. But the dynamic between Ford, Rosie and Cora was next level. The banter was fantastic, they were a family before they even knew they were a family. They just fit with each other. But also had different personalities and were their own people.

I did have a few little issues here and there, but honestly, they weren’t super major. The writing felt a little clunky at times, and there were times when I didn’t feel like Cora was a 12-year-old. But then she had to grow up very quickly, so it’s a give or take here.

Honestly, I loved reading Wild Love by Elsie Silver, it was what I was hoping for and it was fantastic. The romance was fantastic, the family and small-town dynamics hit and I cannot wait to read more in this single-dad series. I want it all now.