#dimily

Tyler Bruce – hell raiser and bad boy – tells his story in his own words.

Alternating between past and present, Just Don’t Mention It is narrated from Tyler’s perspective. We see his life as a twelve-year-old boy suffering physical abuse at the hands of his dad. We see him as the daredevil seventeen-year-old we first met in Did I Mention I Love You?, the stepbrother who falls head over heels for Eden.

In these parallel timelines we finally understand the enigmatic Tyler’s complex story and his innermost thoughts – on his dad, his mom, on Tiffani and Eden – all the things Eden wasn’t witness to. And, crucially, the reader gains heartbreaking insight into why Tyler becomes the self-obsessed, angry and unhappy guy we encounter in DIMILY.

This utterly addictive rollercoaster of a novel gives voice to one of the most adored characters in Estelle Maskame’s extraordinary international bestseller, Did I Mention I Love You?

Following Eden in the other stories was much lighter and easier to engage with because she is very soft and innocent like she loves Disney movies so like she had a very light easy perspective. In this book,we follow Tyler who is just so incredibly different to Eden. This story is set in two different time periods, one was five years before meeting Eden which follows Tyler as he is abused every day by his father and then we get the flash forward to him meeting Eden.  

‘When sixteen-year-old Eden Munro agrees to spend the summer with her estranged father in the beachfront city of Santa Monica, California, she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for. Eden’s parents are divorced and now her father has a brand-new family. For Eden, this means she’s about to meet three new stepbrothers.

The eldest is Tyler Bruce, a troubled teenager with a short temper and a huge ego: Eden’s complete polar opposite. Eden quickly finds herself thrust into a world of new experiences as Tyler’s group of friends take her under their wing. But the one thing she can’t understand is Tyler, and the more she tries to figure him out, the more she finds herself falling for the one person she shouldn’t – her stepbrother.

Throw in Tyler’s clingy girlfriend and a guy who has set his eyes on Eden, and there are secrets, lies and a whole lot of drama. But how can Eden keep her feelings under control? And can she ever work out the truth about Tyler?’

Book Review: no spoilers

I quite liked this book. This book was the sort of book I imagined it to be. It was an average contemporary, with slightly bit of depth and quite gripping. The beginning and end were the strongest, with the middle leaving me something to be desired. I think the book would have been better without the epilogue because that would have left the reader wanting more to try and figure out what was going to happen next.

I quite liked Eden. She made me laugh a few times, and had some of the best lines. I also really liked the positive representation of mothers in this book of Eden’s mother and her step-mother Ella. Eden’s father is a piece of work. I didn’t mind Tyler. I don’t love him, but I don’t hate him either. I don’t think that he is the perfect fit for Eden though. There were a few instances where I questioned Tyler because he would do something reckless either with himself, or both him and Eden and I wouldn’t like it.

Overall, I’d give this book a 3/5 or 6/10. It was a good, average contemporary romance read. I will read the rest of the series because I am doing a buddy read of it, but what surprises me the most is the author’s age. She was a teenager when this book was published, and knowing that and the quality of this book makes it that much better in my eyes.

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