Count On Me
An Angsty, Beautiful HEA You Can Count On
One thing I know I can count on with any Koko Heart book is the emotional depth she brings to her stories. I know she’s going to tear my heart apart before putting it back together. And I know she’s going to bring her characters to their beautiful HEA with the help of amazing family and friends. And while her newest novel Count On Me, book one in her On Me series, may be lower on the spicy factor, it more than makes up for it with epic pining and passion.
I fell in love with Edie and Jaxson right away. They’re so beautifully well-developed and real. Their road to happiness isn’t easy, but it is absolutely worth it. Friends to lovers is always such a difficult road to write, but Koko handles it so well, infusing so much depth into their relationship. When they finally come together, the result is truly wonderful. Talk about a grand gesture! Yes, please!
Koko does a wonderful job of upping the angst throughout the story, and just when you think that HEA is within their grasp, she throws in a twist readers will never see coming. Yes, you will need tissues. Yes, you will shake your fist at the injustice. And yes, you may even get angry at one or both main characters, but it is all so freaking worth it.
Amping up the emotions and the angst, the banter in this book is fantastic. Not only between the characters in their daily personal encounters, but in the group texts. And those group texts bring an entirely new level to the story, creating that family and found family bond. Koko builds such solid and amazing connections between all of her characters, and the hints she gives for future books in the series are too good to ignore.
Count On Me is definitely a solid series starter and I can’t wait to see where the next books take her characters. She also infuses several cameos from her Cooper Sisters series, and I have no doubt readers who jump in at Count On Me will want to live in their world too.
