American Sweethearts by Adriana Herrera

Thank you to @this_is_edelweiss for the ARC of the reissued paperback which came out Dec 28th, 2021.

Adriana Herrera does not disappoint, though this one is shorter than all the rest, Juan Pablo gets his HEA.

I loved that our man is casually and unapologetically bi. It's never a part of the conversation as a "thing". He just is. Which is how life should be. Everyone just loves the people they love and tell their folx about it.

I feel like I needed some more info about Priscilla. Her sex-positive education may be mentioned in a previous book. (I am reading them out of order) It felt very abrupt here. I wanted to know her more. This is the only place where I felt a little lost. The motivations and decisions of Priscilla didn't feel like something I really understood.

This has been a great series. I am so excited to read all of their stories. I want these people to be real and I want to have them in my life. Could this fictional found family adopt me?-Sky

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I DID read them in order because I’m a control freak that way and I can say that Priscilla’s internal struggles were still a little weak. When she finally decided to be with J, it felt out of the blue, like the previous page she still wasn’t sure.

She was an NYPD cop, but her work issues were on children cases, rather than racial cases like Patrice and Easton’s book. Why there wasn’t crossover or comment there seemed like a lost opportunity.

If this book was any longer, I feel like readers would have gotten tired from Priscilla and Juan Pablo’s on-again/off again. It was the perfect length and the sex scenes were STEAMY AS HELL. This is the steamiest book for me (maybe because I’m hetero) but the best story of the bunch was American Dreamer (#1, Nesto and Jude). -Ford