Love Online by Penelope Ward
This review is from 2018 and is kept here for reference. Titles, prices and availability may have changed.
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- Stars
- ★★★★½
- Heat
- Molten
- Genre
- Contemporary
- Series
- Standalone
Recommendation
So, this book was NOT what I was expecting at all! This is not your typical love story. Not your typical characters. Not a plot line I’ve ever read before. I was thinking quick, hot & cute online romance with a few secrets sprinkled in for fun, not this taboo and twisty book with layers of unexpected depth and intensity. This story proves that love can be found literally anywhere and that everyone is deserving of it… period. It is NOT a book for the overly judgmental, but if you’ve got an open mind and want to take a journey in finding love through the dark corners of the internet with some unique and solidly written characters, you’ve gotta check this one out.
Excerpts
That’s the thing. Life takes you in unexpected directions. There’s good, and there’s bad to that. Sometimes on a detour, you find what you need in the least likely of places. And then you wonder if that was the direction you were always meant to go.
I’m sure if I told any of my friends about you, they wouldn’t get it. They’d tell me I was crazy. But if this is crazy, I don’t want to be normal, because I can’t remember a time when I’ve been happier.
When something is worth fighting for, you don’t wait around to figure out logistics. You say yes, you accept the gift you’ve been given, and you figure out the rest later, because life is too damn short to be unhappy.
Publisher synopsis
We met in the least likely of places. It started out innocently enough. I was “ScreenGod” and she was “Montana,” but of course, those weren’t our actual names, just the virtual cloaks we hid behind.
Logging in at night and talking to her was my escape—my sanctuary.
Her real name was Eden, I’d soon come to find out.
From the first time we connected online, I found myself transfixed.
She was an addiction.
At first, we knew nothing about each other’s real identities…and she was adamant that we keep things that way. Anonymity had no effect on our unstoppable chemistry, though. If anything, it allowed us to open up even more in ways we may not have otherwise.
Eden was funny, intelligent, gorgeous—everything I’d ever wanted in a woman.
But I couldn’t really have her.
I had accepted things would have to stay the way they were—until the day I found a clue that led me straight to her.
So I took a chance.
And that was when our love story really began.
Review published December 6, 2018