Reviewed by Lesley

TITLE:  Resisting You

SERIES:  Words We Never Said #3

AUTHOR: E.M. Lindsey

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 290 Pages

RELEASE DATE: May 24, 2024

BLURB:

“Do you think I can go to jail for cutting holes in all the toes of my boss’s socks? Because that’s where I’m at in life.”

Frey’s a single dad, a nurse, and ready to wage a one-sided prank war against the arrogant surgeon with the sexy accent he keeps getting paired up with. And while there might be more to Dr. Renato Agosti, Frey isn’t sure he wants to feel anything but hatred for the man who said his biggest accomplishment was that he never met a resident he couldn’t make cry.

But everything changes the day Frey’s pranks go too far, and Renato corners him behind closed doors. In a series of bad decisions, hate turns into something else—something forbidden and delicious—and it doesn’t take long before Frey realizes the fine line between hate and love has started to blur.

Frey’s not sure he has room in his life for something complicated with a man who doesn’t know what he wants, though. He has a son to worry about, and a future to figure out. Still, the more Frey and Renato keep sneaking around, the more Frey starts to realize his feelings might be real.

He just needs to figure out if resisting Renato is worth the pain, or if loving him is worth the cost.

Resisting You is the second book in the single dads series, Words We Never Said. It contains an enemies to lovers one-sided prank war, hurt/comfort, grumpy surgeon/sunshine nurse, and a spicy, gently angsty, comedic romance that will leave your e-readers steaming.

REVIEW:

I enjoyed this book, the second in the Words We Never Said series. In it we get Frey and Renato’s story. Frey was a very good friend of Lane one of the main characters in the first book but don’t worry if you haven’t read it I think you will get the characters and relationships as they are a minor part of this story.

Frey is a single dad, with a young deaf son, Rex. He didn’t plan to be a single Dad but when his husband decides he didn’t sign up for a deaf baby and walked out that’s what happened. Six years later he is making it work, with the help of his friends and Oz, his son’s deaf mentor.

After the trauma of Rex being so poorly and his husband leaving him he decides he can no longer work with newborns and moves to the ortho department. Here he meets his nemesis Dr Renato Agosti.

Frey is convinced Dr Renato is deliberately sabotaging his things so in turn plays pranks on him to get his own back, After all that’s only fair, isn’t it?

Dr Renato Agosti, doesn’t like Frey who he thinks has slept with everybody in the hospital and doesn’t take anything seriously. Renato thinks it’s part of his job to be harsh on the interns. How else will they be able to deal with their patient’s families screaming at them? That’s how he was trained so that must be the right way!!

Reading this book, we discover there is so much more to both Frey and Renato.  Their pasts have defined how they portray themselves now and they are ready to change that and become better people. They are ready to be more honest with themselves and those around them.

Sorry, this is a spoiler, but I do feel like I should warn you the death of a husband and the subsequent grief is dealt with in this book and Renato’s Thursday night ritual is so heart breaking. (I am deliberately being vague).

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