Review | The Unrequited by Saffron A. Kent --> 4.5 Stars
TITLE: The Unrequited AUTHOR: Saffron A. Kent GENRE: Contemporary Romance
RELEASE DATE: July 13th, 2018
Layla Robinson is not crazy. She is suffering from unrequited love. But it’s time to move on. No more stalking, no more obsessive calling. What she needs is a distraction. The blue-eyed guy she keeps seeing around campus could be a great one—only he is the new poetry professor—the married poetry professor. Thomas Abrams is a stereotypical artist—rude, arrogant, and broody—but his glares and taunts don’t scare Layla. She might be bad at poetry, but she is good at reading between the lines. Beneath his prickly façade, Thomas is lonely, and Layla wants to know why. Obsessively. Sometimes you do get what you want. Sometimes you end up in the storage room of a bar with your professor and you kiss him. Sometimes he kisses you back like the world is ending and he will never get to kiss you again. He kisses you until you forget the years of unrequited love; you forget all the rules, and you dare to reach for something that is not yours.
⭐️ 4.5 "Stupid Crazy Love" Stars ⭐️
This review is a very tough one to write. I have so many clashing feelings about The Unrequited. There was a certain point I didn’t know if I was going to finish the book, but ultimately there was a definite pull that kept me reading because I needed to know what was going to happened.
“Unrequited love is like a dead, useless organ. It’s functionless. It’s sicker than a disease. You can sure a disease, but you can’t fix a defective soul.”
It’s so easy to get lost in the beautiful words Saffron A. Kent crafts and that flow like a poem. I love the emotions it provokes to the reader. The difficulty I had with the story was the characters. Layla and Thomas are very flawed characters and some of their actions are just arduous to understand. I had difficulty connecting with Layla mostly. Let’s face it, the girl is crazy with obsessive and stalker tendencies. At first, this over the top behavior was a big red flag, but I kept reading and I gradually started to understand her feelings. She’s desperate to be loved and share something special with Thomas. Her strong façade slowly crumbled and her fragility bled through the pages and that’s what finally got to me.
“You’re… the poem I can never write. Yeah, you’re the piece of poetry I can never hope to finish, no matter how hard I try.”
Thomas isn’t easier to comprehend and I needed time to appreciate him. I loved his commanding presence and dirty mouth, but couldn’t help feeling he was so insensitive for most of the book. He’s so closed off and the way he seems to use and abuse Layla’s weakness is sad. He clearly struggles with his forbidden attraction to her and the love he has for his wife. His home situation changed him and he's suffocating under unrequited love!
You can’t deny the sparks and intense sexual chemistry Layla and Thomas share. It’s unbelievable! The passion and need is simply sinfully hot! Their illicit relationship is irresistible. After so long feeling unworthy of love, this intense temptation is what makes them desperate to hold on to these stolen moments of carnal bliss.
“Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the courage to do something despite it.”
In definitive, The Unrequited captivated me and the author did such a strong job in the character development. After a difficult start, this story completely captured my heart with all the feels.
SAFFRON A. KENT
Writer of bad romances. Aspiring Lana Del Rey of the Book World. Saffron is a big believer in love (obviously). She believes in happily ever after, the butterflies and the tingling. But she also believes in edgy, rough and gutsy kind of love. She believes in pushing the boundaries, darker (sometimes morally ambiguous) emotions and imperfections. The kind of love she writes about is flawed just like her characters. And she hopes by the end of it, you’ll come to root for them just as much as she does. Because love, no matter where it comes from, is always pure and beautiful. She is represented by Meire Dias of Bookcase Agency
