Too Hard To Forget (Romancing the Clarksons) by Tessa Bailey

Title: Too Hard To Forget (Romancing the Clarksons)

Author: Tessa Bailey

Publication Date: April 25, 2017

Publisher: Forever

Review: Peggy Clarkson was the biggest problem I had with this book.  Do you want to know why my biggest problem with this entire book was Peggy Clarkson?  Because her name was Peggy.  And that’s it.  The only problem with this book was that I don’t like the name Peggy.  The rest of this book was flawless.  FLAWLESS.

Peggy Clarkson, ex-university cheerleader, and Elliot Brooks, head coach of the football team, were involved in a hot, tumultuous and very secret relationship that ended with her in love with him and him dumping her unceremoniously into a cab and sending her away.  Peggy has spent years trying to piece her broken heart together, but has determined that nothing will be right without a little revenge.  She’s returned to her alma mater and she’s ready to make Elliot Brooks pay for what he did to her.  The problem is that Elliot Brooks has been paying for the way he treated Peggy for years and now that he has a second chance to make things right he’s not going to let her slip through his fingers.

Too Hard To Forget is the first novel I’ve read by Ms. Bailey, but oh my gosh I am absolutely obsessed.  I have big plans to purchase the first two in the Romancing the Clarksons series and I have plans to wait around for the rest in the series.  Too Hard To Forget is a wet dream.  Is it okay to say that in a review?  It sounds weird, but you will one-hundred percent agree with me if you give it a chance.  This book was scandalously hot.

The chemistry between Elliot and Peggy is explosive.  It jumps off the page, buries itself deep in your chest, and has you gasping for air.  Not an exaggeration.  The way Ms. Bailey creates her characters makes them so utterly real that you find yourself wondering whether you’re reading a non-fiction book or a romance novel.  Peggy and Elliot are each fighting their own serious demons.  You want them to succeed, but you’re also screaming at them to just give in.  And I mean literally screaming.  I was screaming at a book.  There were some scenes that were physically painful to experience because their pain seemed so real.  But, in a fun trade off, you also experience their joy, so it’s sort of fair.

This is the sort of book that one second you’ll be reading and the next you’ll be zoning out because you’re so desperately wishing it was you between those pages experiencing that amazing, unattainable level of passion.  At least, I hope that isn’t just something that I do…

I think this might give 50 Shades of Grey a run for its money in terms of sheer amounts of sex.  That’s the thought I want to leave you with.  Swoon. 

Release date is April 25, 2017 and if you don’t pick up this novel you’ll be making a huge mistake.