REVIEW

Rating: 4/5
POV: 3rd Person, Dual
Heat Level: 5+/5 (but tame)
Tropes: Virgin MMC; Tarzan Retelling (obviously); Opposites Attract; Mix of Fantasy/CR; Forced Proximity; He Falls First; Simp Hero
Kinks: N/A

Likes:
* Thorne, the MMC! Step aside current husband as I have found me a new one! Thorne is so damn romantic. I'm over here swooning hard!
* Okay so at first I didn't quite like this BUT it ended up working really well. There was transition from slow romance to action back to romance back to action and so on.
Dislikes:
* the decade that this story is taking place is quite ambiguous. It felt like a guessing game until we're finally given a pretty concrete clue which happens to be Dropbox lol. Googled and it was created in 2007.


Conclusion:
I haven't read many Tarzan retellings, as there's actually not that many out there, but if you're on the search for one I demand you add this to your list! This book really pleasantly surprised me. It was just so much more romantic than I was expecting. Like swoon worthy romance.

What wasn't so pleasantly surprising however was how clinical the sex scenes were. There are technically 6 with one of them being so short in my head its a .5 scene lol but they are all very bland. I did for some reason go into reading this story thinking it was going to be uber spicy (which I wanted) and it really wasn't. So if that's what you like and you're reading this review then I highly recommend it for you. If the sex had been more written in a way I enjoy then this 100% would've been a 5 star read for me.

You'll notice I really haven't said anything about the FMC and that's because she was just average. Thorne, the MMC, did carry this story but because he was just so deliciously a simp for the FMC it totally worked. He was also a man of many many talents - like speaking English, Swahili, gorilla, bird, and on and on. LOL

This book is a mix of a contemporary (yes apparently this is a contemporary setting lol) and fantasy. There's forest magic happening in this place and this man rises from the fucking dead like Jesus LMAO. I about died when this part happened - Lori IYKYK

Since I feel as though my review has turned a point of being all over the place
Here are some of those romantic moments I keep referring to - and there's just so many of them!

You are my future, my mate, my destiny. My everything - Thorne

Thorne raised her chin up so their gazes locked. "I want you to stay, be mine. Always." How could he tell her the truth? That there was no Thorne without Eden. They were two halves of a whole. Why couldn't she see that? But he didn't have the words - this man has it bad!

"When you left, I felt sick." Thorne touched his chest. "Here." He looked down at her, and she could see his soul in his eyes.

and these are all just up to 60%

I had a great time buddy reading this with you Lori!! Thank you for taking my constant quote sharing in stride :D lol

4/5

a few things:
hero was raised in the wild with animals who he considers his family
slight language barrier (he knows english but since he hasn’t spoken it in a while it takes a little bit for him to get acclimated again)
TW for death, animal death, hunting animals, kidnapping, violence (there might be more but that is all i remember)

safety:
virgin hero
non virgin heroine
no OM/OW drama