Reticent Hawke (The Hawke Family Second Generation Book 2) by Gwyn McNamee – Review by Shea Gilkerson 8/16/23

Reticent Hawke: A Billionaire Reverse Age Gap Best Friend’s Older Sister Forbidden Romance by Gwyn McNamee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow, Jude has been through a lot in his short life. When some of his problems were discovered while he was a kid, his best friend Alessi’s family took him in. His experiences in his early life lead to a lot for him. Agoraphobia, a passion for Alessi’s sister that he holds close to his heart, and a fear for how people may look at him if they found out.

Despite his phobia, Jude will do anything he can to be supportive of Al or Angie to share his love and appreciation however he can. When Al starts telling lies, avoiding contact, showing up late to work and going MIA, he and Angie work together to get to the bottom of what’s going on – and with Jude and Angie being together regularly, their pull starts to do what they’ve both been trying to avoid for so long – make them crave one another more and more.

This isn’t a storyline you see often, with an older woman being the object of a younger mans desire, and it was a new POV for me that I enjoyed. There were a lot of things being dangled throughout the book that basically were inconclusive, or rushed to a conclusion. The rest of the book was good enough I’d read again even though I felt a few aspects had more potential than they were given and felt like an afterthought.

The Hawke family in both generations offer captivating stories, romance, danger, intensity, familial support, love, friendship, tradition and more. The opportunities that arise in each addition to the series stay interesting and easy to read, offering intrigue and desire to see what happens next.

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