Book Review: Once Upon a Bad Boy by Melonie Johnson

A second chance romance, “Once Upon a Bad Boy” follows childhood sweethearts Sadie Gold and Bo Ibarra who had a falling out on their prom night.

For eleven years, they did not see each other but a twist of fate placed them face to face in a movie set where Sadie was the lead actress and Bo was the stunt coordinator. After the initial shock, they vowed to keep their relationship personal, but the heat between them had not abated.

Still, they were making a movie together and there are certain lines that could not be crossed. Though Sadie and Bo tried, they could not stop themselves. Careful as they were, they were still at a disadvantage.

Hiding their relationship from their family, friends and co-workers were hard enough. Hiding from fans and the paparazzi could be their undoing. And when and if the unthinkable happen, where do they go from there?

Told in two POVs, the story also flip-flopped between the past and the present to reveal Sadie and Bo’s relationship when they were children until they were in their teens. Poignant and bittersweet, the memories tug at your heartstrings as their young love developed only to be torn apart. There were no tear-jerking moments, but it still left a little ache in your heart as everything was revealed.

Once Upon a Bad Boy” is Rated M for Mature due to sexual content and some adult situations.

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Once Upon a Bad Boy

Told in two POVs, Once Upon a Bad Boy flip-flopped between the past and the present to reveal Sadie and Bo’s relationship when they were children until they were in their teens. Poignant and bittersweet, the memories tug at your heartstrings as their young love developed only to be torn apart. There were no tear-jerking moments, but it still left a little ache in your heart as everything was revealed.

 
About the Book

Title: Once Upon a Bad Boy: A Sometimes in Love Novel

Author: Melonie Johnson
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Romance
Pub Date 25 Jun 2019

Description

NEVER SAY NEVER

Sadie Gold is ready to take her career to the next level with the role of a lifetime. Finally, she can shake her reputation as a pretty face with more wealth and connections than talent. But Sadie is not prepared for the wild turn her own life is about to take. The man in charge of training Sadie for her most demanding role yet is none other than her first real boyfriend—the one who took her heart and ran away.

WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE

Bo Ibarra is as good-looking and irresistible as ever. Maybe even more so, now that everything once worked against them—Sadie’s pampered and privileged upbringing and Bo’s childhood in a family struggling to make ends meet—is in the past. But the future is still unwritten…and getting there, together, means coming clean about painful secrets and slashing through nasty tabloid rumors while trying to control the attraction that crackles between them. Maybe it’s finally time for them to walk off into the sunset and into a true and lasting love?

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