The Inheritance – Ali Vali

Ali Vali did it again! This is a great enemy-to-lovers book about fierce love and family. Don’t we all wish we had a lover like the ones Ali Vali creates in her books. Vali made me laugh and cry while reading this book.

In the first chapters, you get an insight into the most important characters. I instantly got a liking to Tucker, Jim Bob, Willow and Monique. Usually, I have a strong disliking towards people who have someone hidden aside their marriage. But the way Ali Vali lets you in on Jim Bob’s life you can’t do other than liking the man and maybe berating him for his stupid choice to stay with his awefull wife (I did want to use less suitable expletives here).
When Willow and Tucker meet their chemistry is great, as is their banter. A fast burn is what follows their first night out. But then Willow discovers that Tucker is Jim Bob’s little sister and breaks it off in a bad way.

What follows is what you know is coming. If you’ve read the blurb you know Jim Bob will pass. But leave it to Vali to make it into a heartbreaking scene in the book that’ll make you cry your eyes out. Vali and love in her books have always some kind of fierceness over it. So in those few pages, I’d become to love Monique and Jim Bob and my heart broke for their love not getting a chance to be a happily ever after. Imagine my heart breaking for a second time.

What Monique had in store for Tucker and Willow is just great, I read it with a smile on my face and it felt like sunlight coming through the clouds after days of sad and dark weather.

Although I love other books by Vali, this one stole my heart because of the simplicity of it. Earlier books by Vali that I read were mostly about crimes and you’ll have to pay attention reading those book because of the many characters and intrigue she works in her plotline. In this book the plotline was less complicated, but certainly not less beautiful. The book is full of beautiful emotional moments and Vali did a great job writing down the good, the bad and the ugly. I cried and laughed while reading and had difficulty putting it away.

I can recommend this book to everybody who enjoys a butch-femme, enemies-to-lovers family romance. As a bonus, it is set in New Orleans, which I love. Read it, you won’t be sorry.

I received a copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.
You can buy this book on the publishers website.

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