Forbid Me (The Good Ol’ Boys #2)

Forbid Me is the second in the series of The Good Ol\’ Boys. Each book focuses on a different couple, but it does help to read each book in order. As you get back some of the story in each book. So when starting I was unsure if I was gonna like Jacob, because I thought of him as a hypocrite after everything with Bo & Half-Pint, but the more I read on the more I realise I love him. You get all the angst again from Complicate Me, but it\’s different this time. Forbid Me is told from the past and present times, both from Jacob and Lillian(Lily\’s ) points. This sees Lily being in love with of one her older brothers best friends, that\’s one problem, but there is also the age gap. Jacob had been around Lily since she was a baby, he watched her grow up, then when his feeling changed his love grew into a different kind of love, one he struggled to deal with. We get a wee insight into Forbid Me at the end of Complicate Me, however nothing could prepare you for all the feeling this book would envoke. You find out how Jacob and Lily spent the three years apart, and you get the back story of their relationship. You see Lily growing up into a brilliant sassy woman, you see her deal with something heartbreaking that was also prominent from Complicate Me, but most of all you see her deal with her love of Jacob, even with all the hurt she never stops loving him. Jacobs back story is also heartbreaking, which is why it endears you to him so much. The turmoil of falling in love with his best friends baby sister. You feel the sadness as he wars with his head and his heart. It\’s a case of doing what he thinks should be right and what his heart wants. The way the story is told, it doesn\’t make Jacob seedy and you don\’t feel it\’s wrong. Sometimes you can\’t help who you love. Like Complicate Me it was like star crossed lovers, you couldn\’t help feel they should be together. The book is a must read from start to finish, I couldn\’t put it down. The way the story has been told just draws you and makes you feel what the characters are feeling and I love how it all interconnected with the first book. It also make you understand more of why somethings happened in the first book. Forbid me is a poignant story of a forbidden coming of age story of falling in love with the right person, at what maybe could be considered the wrong time. A teaser into Dylan and Aubreys story was at the end,all I can say is I need it,like now.. I was given an Arc in return from my honest option.