If you need an emotional, gripping, and amazing romance to enjoy just in time for Valentine’s Day, this is the one for you!

With a story as beautiful, passionate, and vulnerable as this one, I found it hard to put down.

Lacy Adams and Trevor James met in high school. When an unfortunate accident brings Lacy to the emergency room, she’s shocked to see that her attending doctor is the same boy she used to help with art lessons many years ago.

There’s also been a hint of a spark between them, even if they never acted upon it. But when Lacy needs a place to stay and Trevor conveniently needs a roommate, the two of them decide to live together. Soon enough, Lacy establishes a few ground rules for their complex relationship, with the important one being: no catching feelings whatsoever.

But of course, things aren’t that simple, especially not for these two.

This romance truly has it all. It has two main characters that you just can’t help but root for. The characters are developed excellently as they maneuver the kinks and curves of their unconventional circumstances. Lacy and Trevor are compassionate towards the world just as much as they are passionate towards each other. 

At the core of it all, Lacy and Trevor are both working through vulnerable issues. For so long, they both thought that they had to bear the brunt of this pressure alone. To go about the world, pretending that they were alone in their struggle and that they didn’t have to burden anyone else with their issues.

The beautiful thing about this story is seeing two characters learn to love each other, as well as love themselves. The yearning, the love, the passion that they feel for each other makes this an incredible read, one that will remain on your mind long after you’ve finished it.

*Spoilers Ahead*

I found these two so cute. I’m a sucker for romances where the guy is kind, capable, and yearns for his love, and All of Me delivers spectacularly on that front.

When first reading the book, I was immediately fond of Lacy and her situation. She’s living out of her van while working as a high school art teacher. Definitely unconventional, but Lacy is an unconventional person. She marches to the beat of her own drum, which is why she’s in trouble with her parents for not being the perfect child they wanted her to be.

When she meets Trevor, Lacy is convinced that she’s not deserving of love. They start a friends with benefits situation, finding solace in each other when the pressures of their lives become too much to bear.

Trevor works in the emergency room, as mentioned before, so he is used to seeing loss and grief on a daily basis. At the same time, he’s dealing with his own grief by having to present himself as the perfect child in an imperfect family. He has a strained relationship with his older brother, who we later learn started stealing cars and got addicted to drugs while in college. He used to look up to his brother, Joseph, but to see the pain Joseph was bringing to their family, more specifically their mother… It caused Trevor to build up a lot of resentment over time.

When Lacy and Trevor start sleeping with each other, the tension is unbelievable and the act itself is super passionate.

But what I truly appreciate about this romance is the pacing and the extent to which their love story is fleshed out. While the two of them clearly like each other at first, it takes a while to build up to that undeniable feeling of love you feel the two of them share. I love that Lacy and Trevor helped build each other up. I adore the fact that Trevor helped Lacy realize that she’s always been enough, even when she felt as if that wasn’t the case at times.

There were two parts of this novel that I absolutely adored: Lacy’s family reunion and the end, where Lacy decides to invite Trevor to her overseas trip with her. Trevor is a literary dream man in every sense, but he really shines in these two scenes specifically. It made me feel so happy that Lacy was finally able to start healing, loving herself, and living her dreams with Trevor by her side.

He really awakened a passion in her that was being held back by her own fears, worries, and traumas. And he loved her completely and truly, even if Lacy still felt as if she wasn’t deserving of that love. To Trevor, Lacy was always the one for him. And he probably knew that since they were in high school.

All in all, I thought this was a truly beautiful story that I enjoyed completely! Thank you so much to the Happily Booked PR team and author Amanda Michelle for allowing me to get an ARC for All of Me! It was truly an honor and I had such a great time with this one.

I give this one five stars!

Happy reading, everyone!