5 Smooches
Synopsis
Love is somewhere near the bottom of Lily Thomas’ list of life goals, right next to competitive eating and underwater cave diving. She’s spent six years pirouetting and pliéing her way up the ranks of the New York Ballet with her eye on the prize and love in the back seat. But now that Blane Baker — Lily’s long time crush — is finally single, she’ll throw her rules out the window without thinking twice.
Reality with Blane isn’t as epic as the fantasy she imagined, and the truth sends her spinning straight into the arms of the man she never knew she’d always wanted.
West Williams has been friends with Lily since the day she moved into their building and he saved her armoire from a swift, sudden death by staircase. Their friendship has always been easy, the boundaries clearly defined. With neither of them willing to risk their relationship, they’ve drifted happily through the years as companions, never considering more.
That is, until they do. And that realization changes everything.
Review
“The guy was gorgeous and smart, funny, driven. And with manners. A total catch. If he wasn’t my best friend, I’d be all over that.”
What do you get when you put a ballet dancer, a TA from Columbia with a man bun, a group of too sexy and fun for their own good friends along with a ton of whiskey, sexual tension and some great laugh out loud moments? You get a book you can’t put down! With a Twist is both a light funny book and an angst ridden love triangle all wrapped up together.
“I didn’t choose the hipster life – the hipster life chose me.”
Lily is finally where she wants to be in life, a principle dancer and hooking up with the guy she has had a crush on since high school. Unable to move past the crush she has had for years and see him for what he really is, a douche nugget (Do you hyphen that? I just don’t know) she gives him chance after chance to move past his narcissistic ways. West is the lumbersexual of my dreams with full on man bun and beard. I lust after this man.
“It was her eyes, bright and blue behind thick lashes as she looked up at me, some emotion behind them that I couldn’t place. Something in the pink of her cheeks that whispered a secret that I couldn’t quite hear. I don’t think I could have told you my name in that moment, if you’d asked me.”
West has been best friends with Lily since she moved in Always content with knowing she is out of his league he has settled into the role of BFF. Happily hanging with friends at the local bar and watching episodes of the Bachelor, Lily and West have an easy way with each other always comfortable and content but after watching Lily finally start dating West is suddenly not so content anymore. But is pursuing more with Lily worth risking the perfect friendship they have.
“I want to kiss you until I know the feeling by heart.”
Beautifully written and with a cast full of characters I can’t wait to know more about. Lily and West were utterly wonderful. I cheered for them from the beginning and rejoiced in them by the end. With A Twist is the kind of book that will have you laughing out loud one moment and have you heart clenching the next. I vastly enjoyed this book and look forward to more in the series!
~miranda
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