If you’re looking to finish out the 2024 year with a ugly cry book, you have come to the right place for it. The One by Marni Mann is book five in the Spade Hotel series. It is definitely recommended to read the series in order, there are many details and characters that are present that I think are important when reading the newest installment. However, the books can be read as standalone if you really want to.
It is FINALLY Rhett’s turn. So much of this series shows Rhett as the cold, heartless, villain, never willing to do anything for anyone, always looking out for himself. Well now we have the other side to that story, and what a story it is. To tell that story we have to go back fifteen years ago.
Rhett and Lainey are high school sweethearts, they are young, they are naive, and they are so, so in love. When the unthinkable happens, and tears our two love birds apart, Lainey gets lost in her grief and leaves, off to get lost in the world, severing all contact with Rhett. The pair unravel without each other, it is heartbreaking to see.
Fast forward to the present, Rhett is a grumpy, cold, complicated man who prefers his own company over any other. While Lainey is living with more and more grief everyday. This couple is the definition of living without part of your soul. Their story revolves around their separation, the heartbreak and grief that came from that, the trauma they endured and the loneliness they both have suffered. Rhett’s guilt and Laney’s grief are without a doubt some of the strongest emotions I have experienced from a book before.
When these two finally come back together for the first time in nearly two decades, the tension is palpable. Rhett has to lean into his vulnerability and really show Lainey what he is feeling, and Lainey has to let down her shields that she had spent so long holding up.
I really have to give Marni credit for her ability to write such intense and deep rooted characters, Rhett and Lainey are an amazing combination of pain, hope, forgiveness and passion.
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The One (Spade Hotel Series Book 5)
4.5 | 880 ratings
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Last update: 12-31-2024
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Sarah SlusarczykUtterly Emotional
Melissa B.(bookaddict_fanatic)A beautiful, emotional journey
Melissa B.(bookaddict_fanatic)
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2024
Oh Marni, I was so upset with you throughout this book for putting my poor heart through the ringer, but I had a feeling Rhett's book was going to be an emotional journey in order for us to learn how and why he became the man he was.
“ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇᴅ ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ, ᴀsɪᴅᴇ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴍᴇ ᴏʟᴅᴇʀ. ᴍʏ ғᴇᴇʟɪɴɢs-ᴛʜᴏsᴇ ᴡᴇɴᴛ ᴜɴᴛᴏᴜᴄʜᴇᴅ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ's ɴᴏᴛ ᴛʀᴜᴇ. ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜᴇᴅ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ᴛʜᴇʏ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴍᴇ sᴛʀᴏɴɢᴇʀ.”
This story was a beautiful but heartwrenching journey about love, loss, healing, forgiveness, and most of all, second chances. Rhett and Lainey pulled at my heartstrings for all they suffered, but watching them find love again was magical it consumed me from beginning to end. I'm not one to seek out a second chance romance, but Marni sure did put her special touch on this final book in this series that I couldn't help but fall hard and fast for this one.
"ʙᴜᴛ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀs ɪɴsɪᴅᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀɴ ᴡᴀs ᴘᴜʀᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ. sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ ʀᴇᴍᴀʀᴋᴀʙʟᴇ ғᴀᴛʜᴇʀ. sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ sᴛᴀɴᴅ ʙʏ ᴍʏ sɪᴅᴇ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇsᴛ ᴏғ ᴍʏ ʟɪғᴇ. ᴀɴᴅ sᴏᴍᴇᴏɴᴇ ᴡʜᴏ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴍᴇ ǫᴜᴇsᴛɪᴏɴ ʜɪs ʟᴏᴠᴇ. ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ɪ ᴅɪᴅɴ'ᴛ ᴊᴜsᴛ ғᴇᴇʟ ɪᴛ ɪɴ ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ, ɪ ғᴇʟᴛ ɪᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴡʜᴇʀᴇ."
If you're ready to head back to the Spade Hotels and meet one grumpy, alpha, tortured billionaire who is ready to reunite with his first love for a second chance at love then grab your tissues and prepare yourself for one emotional ride.
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