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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Kylie Scott

Start date: August 10, 2018

Finish date: August 15, 2018

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Jul 30, 2018 Ivy Deluca rated it really liked it

Shelves: _arc-reads, second-chance-romances, may-december-romance

Adele’s dad runs his own construction company out in Queensland, Australia and she goes to stay with him for the summer every year after her parents’ less than amicable divorce. One summer, when she’s in town, she meets Pete, who works with her dad at his construction company and well, she’s 16 and he’s 31, so let’s not go there...yet.

They develop a friendship that flourishes over time and she falls in love with him, to predictably disastrous results. When things go to hell in a handbasket, it ...more

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Aug 09, 2018 Michelle rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary, contemporary-romance, forbidden-love, kylie-scott, older-man-younger-woman, 2018, august-2018

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Personally, it’s always a good idea when it comes to reading a Kylie Scott book. And in her latest release, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, I once again fell in love with her writing, characters and raw emotions. Forbidden romance with an age gap has always been my favorite. There is just something so appealing and intoxicating about it and so when Kylie Scott introduces readers to Adele and Pete, I knew this is one read that I ...more

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