Until You: A Brother's Best Friend Standalone: 1 (Off-Limits)

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I finally read something by Catharina Maura and I started with her Off-Limits Series and that was a great decision because this series is just phenomenal. And not only are the covers super pretty, but it matches the amazing stories. It took him nearly the whole day but he finally arrived in Miami to spend the week with his best friend and celebrate his birthday with him. When Noah turns on the TV for them as they wait for his sister, Aria, a news story is on where a well-known politician gets 15 years on countless sexual harassment charges. A crime he thought he was getting off on. I enjoyed it all about the book, but something that I loved about it, and what I've loved about every book by this author, is that she takes these well-known tropes but she always manages to create these original stories within them, she gives them a special turn and edge that I have never read in any other books. Her storylines always have so many elements of originality. All that idea about the vigilante platform is brilliant. I also found it very refreshing that Aria felt insecure about her body and she described her body as having flaws, flaws that make it relatable :) Grayson also showed us his vulnerabilities and that made him **Oh God..** freaking irresistible. I found the whole story and the subplots very interesting and different from the usual ordinary that abounds in the majority of romance books.

Following the brutal murder of her father and mother when she was a child, she set up a vigilante forum hoping to help others in such circumstances. Together with his sister, they had been forced to live a life of struggle. Noah becomes a doctor to honor his father’s legacy as he starts working at Astor College in what has always been his dream job. I loved Aria and her struggles to find normalcy after finding both of her parents murdered in a home invasion. But, that vulnerability led to her being taken advantage of because she was tired of feeling broken. Ethnically, she is Surinamese even though if you would like to be more specific, she is Indo-Surinamese. Her grandparents had moved from India to Suriname under the guise of indentured labor in the 1800s.Catharina Maura who is otherwise known as CA Maura when writing paranormal romance is a fantasy and paranormal romance author. Over the many years that she has been actively writing romance, she has made a reputation for writing bestselling billionaire romances that her readers love for the small hint of the forbidden. This is a funny, sweet, and sometimes painful story and that's what you want from a book, to make you feel emotions. This book did it for me. I love this author because her writing captures me. I fell in love with Catharina Maura in the Mayhem series and this book is just further proof what an excellent author she is. This book hit all my emotions and I can't wait until Noah's story is released and I can already tell it is going to be a doozy! The first 85% of the book was great, but it went downhill for me towards the end because I didn't like how things developed and some characters acted. Unknown to Grayson and Aria, they have both been speaking with an anonymous user on the platform and have over the weeks started falling in love with each other.

The hero's father raped the hero's mother. The hero is the product of that rape. The hero's mother was understandably triggered by the hero, especially since the hero looks so much like her rapist. So she reacted in an understable way towards the hero when the hero found her years after she's given him up. However, the easiest way to get hold of her is to join the mailing list that she publishes every month. In her newsletter, readers can usually get news of opportunities for bonus content and new releases before they become public knowledge.I also liked that the secret identity stuff & brother's best friend thing didn't become that large of a conflict and turned into sweet moments. They meet up in the treehouse and get it on, but later on they can’t figure out where they can get together? He also sneaks in her house and into her room and her dad is never really around. Again, can’t go there? But they can fool around in his bedroom while she’s visiting Kate, but Kate never finds them even though she randomly suspects they like eachother? What? This is crazy. I really loved the beginning of this book up until aground 40% where everything felt so repetitive. Every chapter in his (Grayson) pov he would ALWAYS talk about how small she was and how she could barely come up to his shoulder - it was very annoying. I was really looking forward to this book because the hype on BookTok but yet again never trust booktok recommendations. Thankfully, she is offered a dream job by the best friend of her brother and she readily accepts it. His brother’s best friend is a man named Greyson who has had a tragic past and considers aria and her brother Noah his only family. stars Best friend’s brother enemies to lovers romance. Book one in series. Told from both MMC and FMC POV.