Today I’m excited to celebrate the release of the new Contemporary romance novel ‘First Love’ by Gillian Jones. ‘First Love’ is the second book in the Winning At Love series, but can be read as a standalone.

Title: First Love (Winning at Love Book 2)

Author: Gillian Jones

Genre: Contemporary Romance

ISBN: B07N6P7K9K

Goodreads Rating: 4.00

Kami Sutherland is gorgeous and—if the rumours are true—a virgin. That—and the fact she’s my sister Eastlyn’s best friend—should be enough to keep a guy like me from crossing any lines. However, our glances, subtle touches, and feelings are evolving beyond just friendship and being running buddies. Despite my sister’s attempts to keep us apart, I only want Kami more. I know I shouldn’t crave her like I do, but she’s too damn hard to resist. Kami has an infectious smile, one I look for whenever she’s near, one I want all to myself. And as the years pass, it’s all clicking into place: Kami wants me, too. So, all bets are off. There’s no way I can resist making her mine.

When I first read the book description of ‘First Love’ is was fascinated. I always love friends to lovers stories. Especially when it’s in the friend of my sister/brother zone. I guess because I was friends with my husbands sister when we met. It just feels familiar and relatable to me. And the cover of this book also definitely spoke to me. ‘First Love’ is the second book in the Winning At Love series, but can be read as a standalone.

In ‘First Love’ we meet Kami Sutherland. Kami has been in love with her best friends brother Keaton for years. And there has always been this chemistry between them. But Kami has been afraid to act on her feelings. What if he doesn’t feel the same? What if she loses her best friend? What is she loses Keaton’s friendship? Instead of admitting her feelings, Kami has been friends with Keaton. But its getting harder and harder to keep her feelings locked.

It took me a while to write this review of ‘First Love’, because I simply didn’t know what my feelings where exactly. From the moment I started reading this book, I couldn’t stop reading. I loved the chemistry between Kami and Keaton. But I also found a lot of things frustrating about them. I just couldn’t figure out if that was a bad or a good thing. So I took my time writing this review. In the end I think it was a good thing I was frustrated with both main characters at times. They were frustrated with themselves too, so it fitted the story.

I really loved Kami and Keaton. And I loved their friendship and the way they interacted with each other. Their chemistry was flying of the pages, and I was hooked to every page. There where so many moments when I thought they would finally come together. The author definitely made me wait a long time, but in a good way. I just wanted Kami and Keaton to come together, but the universe thought different about that and it really took a while. But.. Wow!! This book was definitely giving me all the feelings and I finished the book in two days.

Gillian Jones’s writing is easy to follow, and made me laugh at times. Her characters where fun, easy to like and made me want to get to know them better. After reading this book I definitely would like to read the first book in the series. This book leaves me wanting to find out what Kami’s best friend Eastlyn and McCoy story is all about.

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Wife, mother, shoe collector, pun lover, and proud Canadian. Teacher by day, pantser of words by night. Connoisseur of red wine, and a lover of a good IPA. A believer in that forever kind of love. For more information please visit Gillian on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Or join her Facebook group.

I received this ARC from Read, Review, Repeat in exchange for my honest review.

Maureen Bakker

Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always!  Facebook | Instagram