**APRIL Book Club Pick: Wild Side by Elsie Silver**
An Enemies To Lovers Marriage Of Convenience
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If you’ve dipped just a single toe into the cowboy-romance pond, chances are you’ve already met Elsie Silver.
She’s the queen of small-town, big-heart, emotionally damaged (but deliciously devoted) men—and Wild Side proves she’s not giving up the crown anytime soon.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been itching for Rhys’s story ever since I read the blurb – there’s nothing like a pinky-swear betrayal followed by a custody battle that ends in a marriage of convenience.
Rhys is the ultimate grumpy recluse – but he’s also all cocky confidence and mysterious bruises. There was definitely more going on under that tattooed, grumpy surface.
And oh, was there ever.
When our Book Club voted to make Wild Side our April pick, I practically cartwheeled into my Kindle. And from the very first chapter, I knew this one was going to wreck me—in the best possible way.
Rhys is the definition of emotionally unavailable… until he’s not. And when he sets his sights on Tabitha, a woman determined to protect and raise her nephew on her own terms, their chemistry lights up like fireworks over the mountain.
He’s prickly. She’s fearless. He wants to be left alone. She wants to know everything. It’s a slow-burn-meets-sizzle situation, and we LOVE to see it.
But what hit me hardest wasn’t just the spice (though there’s plenty to fan yourself over). It was the tenderness. The way Elsie writes about trauma, healing, and how terrifying it can be to want more—to believe you deserve it—after life has left you gutted.
Tabitha is one of those heroines you root for like she’s your best friend. She’s messy and brave and funny and so beautifully real. Watching her and Rhys fall, stumble, and choose each other was the kind of emotional payoff that makes you stare at the wall after finishing a book like, “Welp. That ruined me.”
In the best way, of course.
Silver’s signature blend of flirty banter, slow-burn steam, and punch-you-in-the-heart vulnerability is firing on all cylinders in Wild Side. It’s about falling in love when you thought that door was locked. It’s about the wild, terrifying, wonderful risk of letting someone see you.
Five stars. Full-body sigh. Zero regrets.
If this one isn’t already on your shelf, what are you even doing?
Now let’s see if May’s pick can keep up the pace… 👀
Happy reading, love.
Demi xx
Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Giggle Rating: 😂😂😂
Kick-my-feet Rating: 🦶🦶🦶🦶🦶
MY FAVORITE QUOTES:
“Her name is Tabitha, not that you need to know. Because you? You’re going to keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.”
— Rhys
“Does love start off as obsession? Because that’s what I am. Obsessed with my wife.”
— Rhys
“Grieving something that never was and never will be is a special sort of hell.”
— Tabitha
“I’ve spent a lifetime thinking I don’t like talking. It turns out I just needed the right person to talk to.”
— Rhys
“She loves me. It feels like a piece of my puzzle finally slips into place, the satisfaction of completion making me feel more whole than I could have imagined.” — Rhys
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NOTE: These reader opinions are anonymous opinions sourced from goodreads.com
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