Summary

Years ago, his secrets forced him to break her heart. Can love put it back together?

ICU nurse Dani Davis has it all: a coveted job, a great condo, a surgeon boyfriend—though admittedly, things are a little shaky with the boyfriend. None of that matters when the beloved aunt who raised her falls ill. Dani races straight home to small-town Gladewater, Texas.

She almost doesn’t recognize her first love, Levi Cooper. He’s grown up and filled out in all kinds of mouthwatering ways, but one thing hasn’t changed – The painful mystery of why he left her heart in a million tiny pieces.

Levi never planned on setting foot back in Gladewater. The family farm is getting to be too much for his aging mother, though, so he reluctantly leaves his corner-office career to take the reins. The farm comes with a thousand problems, and twice as many memories—all of them bad-except for his memories of Dani, the first love he cut loose for her own good. But when he catches sight of her red curls and flashing green eyes, he can’t help but wonder if there’s any chance to rebuild her trust—and recapture the love that never died.

Review

It was amazing two people could live in the same city for years and not have their lives overlap.

4.5

Do you ever forget your first love?
Dani and Levi’s relationship was perfect. Or so they thought. Until something happened, and it ended. Trying to escape the hurt, they both moved on. Then, years later, life happened, and they both had to move back home. There is no such thing as coincidences. Sometimes you have to leave to find your way back home.

Collide is a second chance small-town romance. It was a nice palette cleanser. When I read something I like, I tend to fall into a hole of reading similar books repeatedly.

The relationships between Maggie and Dani; and Dani and JT was something else. I just can’t; I loved it!

Not going to lie; when I first attempted to write this review, I had put on Collide from Howie Day since it was mentioned in Collide. Yes, it took me a bit to write a full review. Life happens. But I am now finally able to.

Full transparency, I have seen teasers and reviews of Collide on Instagram. So when I saw a post about ARCs from Dallas Ryan, I signed up. Dallas messaged me and told me that I should message her when I read Collide so that she could track readers. I told her that I couldn’t start reading right away, but I will soon.

When I finally read Collide, it was later in the day, so it took two days to read. The next day, I messaged Dallas to notify her. When I did, I was 80% into the book.

I started Collide yesterday. And I think it was a bad idea. I kept wanting to read it instead of going to bed. It kept pulling me in. I’m surprised I managed to put it down.

I was surprised to see that she posted that snippet on her account. There are different degrees of how authors interact with their readers. I don’t see authors interacting with their readers to that degree often. I had made her smile by sending that, so she posted it. This made me glad to be able to support her work. I can’t wait to read more from Dallas Ryan.

Goodreads

Amazon