seriously romantic: lured in by laura drewry

i can't stop myself from staring at the cover of this novel, because i just keep thinking that the two models must be so uncomfortable. luckily nothing as awkward as that seems to happen in the novel, though finn and jessie both are plenty uncomfortable in their own skin when they realize they have feelings for each other.

the latest novel in the fishing for trouble series, lured in, deals with best friends finn o'donnell and jessie todd. they've known each other since they were seventeen. but the trauma of their childhood has meant that they weren't able to face the truth of their feelings for each other until now. there had always been a connection between them, a shared hurt that no one else could ever understand. but because the o'donnells don't talk about shit, everything was buried until jessie decides that it is time to face her fear of the water.

and there is only one person she trusts to help her deal with that fear. finn is beyond honored to be the person jessie trusts to help her through her phobia, he is also the best person for the job because he understands her the way no one else does. at the same time his feelings for her have been harder and harder to hold back. but his distrust of women runs so deep that it's unclear that he will ever have enough faith to believe that things can work out.

lured in is pretty emotional at times, both finn and jessie have a lot of stuff to work through. but when they get together you can feel how much they love each other from the first moment. even when they can't admit it to each other, there is so much love between them. so of course it all works out in the end. and now the only o'donnell left with a story to tell is ronan. and something tells me his will probably be a doozy.

**lured in will publish on september 27, 2016. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/random house publishing - loveswept in exchange for my honest review.