But Annie wants to keep things professional and guard her heart by focusing on growing S#!t Happens and restoring the paper mill…that is, until she figures out the real reason that Linc broke her heart all those years ago. Love Flushed is the second installment of Evie Mitchell’s All Access series, which focuses on a group of differently abled girlfriends searching for love in a smalltown. It is not necessary to have read the first book in the series (Knot My Type) before you read Love Flushed but I highly recommend it as we are introduced to Annie’s story in book 1 and Jay and Frankie’s love story (the main characters in book 1) continues in Love Flushed! Love Flushed is a spicy and unique new adult romance novel featuring the second chance romance and enemies to lovers tropes. This book would be perfect for fans Love Her or Lose Her by Tessa Bailey, the Bergman Brothers series by Chloe Liese, and the Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert. Love Flushed deals with themes/ topics such as invisible illness and disability, love and heartbreak/ sacrifice, war, family and parental abuse, body type, physical and emotional scars, quest for power, female roles/ feminism, friendship, and appearance versus reality. I loved how, throughout this novel, the characters (and the readers) challenge their own misconceptions about invisible illnesses (like Crohn’s disease) and disabilities. Additionally, Love Flushed highlights the importance of found families and second chances. On the positive side, I appreciated how this book was on the shorter side (a little over 200 pages); we get to dive right into Annie story right from the get-go and all the writing was to the point with little to no “fluff” that didn’t aid in driving the plot forward. I loved how this book featured (in my opinion) a realistic portrayal of Crohn’s disease in addition to debunking falsehoods about invisible illnesses like Crohn’s and Colitis. Other than With You Forever by Chloe Liese, I haven’t come by a book that features a character with chronic IBD; I think that it’s awesome that books like Love Flushed and With You Forever are helping to spread awareness for Crohn’s and Colitis! I also enjoyed Annie’s sassy, supportive, and differently abled girl squad (especially their “red and read nights” whereby they get together to read and drink wine) and I cannot wait to read the rest of the girls’ love stories in the next All Access books! Similarly, I loved Linc’s heartwarming relationship with his veteran twin brother Theo and I really hope that we get to see Theo finding his happily ever after in future All Access books. Lastly, Annie and Linc’s second chance love story was full of romantic moments and loads of spice! Similarly, I loved how this book included 2 epilogues whereby we get to see what’s in store for Annie and Linc post happily ever after (we can also expect their story to continue on in All Access book 3).
Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend Evie Mitchell’s All Access series to fellow new adult romance readers. I gave this book a rating of 9.5 out of 10. This article was written for "The Nerd Daily". Click here to view this article on "The Nerd Daily's" website or copy & paste the following URL into your web browser: https://bit.ly/3qpIdWD
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