She’s funny, sweet, and she has a smile that lights up every room. I’m A tall, ripped ex-soldier… and I’m supposed to be her best friend.
My new hobby? I like to imagine how it could be more but I know that the relationship is all in my head. I can’t risk what we have for something intangible… I fantasize about her day and night. She’s a walking, talking fantasy… and she’s only a hair’s breadth … and she’s only a hair’s breadth away. But one wrong move could take what I value most. And once she looks my way for just a second, I don’t know how I could possibly let her go…
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A sweet, sassy, steamy, and entertaining friends to lovers romance. I enjoyed the journey Ryan and Poppy embarked on, their chemistry was off the charts, their connection is beautiful, and their friendship is the sweetest. I liked this book.
Ryan and Poppy have been best friends for 20+ years.
Ryan was just discharged from the SEAL’s due to a knee injury and he cannot wait to get back to see Poppy. That’s going to be the first place he goes. Poppy has one goal and that is to become a doctor but she really doesn’t like they way her life is going at the moment. When Ryan comes back to town and now that they are all grown up, the attraction that they have for each other is undeniable. Can you be best friends first and then lovers? Well written, loved the characters, it’s definitely on a must read list for many. I voluntarily read an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book.
Claiming Her Innocence is a friends to lovers story filled with drama and violence but also a sweet romance, love and a great ending. I really loved Poppy and Ryan together. This is an excellent read and I couldn’t put it down until the last page. I can’t wait to see what Vivian Wood comes up with next.
Lifelong Best Friends Turned Lovers
Ryan Scott has just been discharged from the SEAL’s for a bad knee. Now he is back home and can’t wait to see his best friend of 20 years, Poppy.
Poppy has focused her life on her biggest goal, becoming a doctor. Now she’s in her 30’s and realizing that her life isn’t all she’d like it up to be.
Now Ryan is back in town and he and Poppy find themselves drawn to each other in a way they have never been before.
I loved this book about the last Scott sibling. I always enjoy Vivian Wood’s work and this was no exception. I would definitely recommend it.
This is the second book by Vivian Wood that I have read. I didn’t realize until I was reading it that the hero was Ellie’s (from His Best Friend’s Little Sister) brother Ryan. I enjoyed the story but felt that it was a little slow starting out. The character’s weren’t as strong as I would have liked them to be. Poppy was a good strong doctor but she lacked strength when it came to her personal life and what she really wanted. Will I greatly despised. He pissed me off with the way that he treated Poppy, and I can say that I’m glad he got what he did. Sarah was a great friend but I’ve never been a fan of triangle’s and it kind of irritated me that Ryan still messed around with her even though he knew he was attracted to Poppy. I had my up’s and down’s with this story, but in the end I really enjoyed it. And really? The purple popsicle? That was unique.
Friends to hot lovers! 5 stars
I love reading about Vivian Wood’s bad boys. They are perfectly flawed alpha males, strong men that are cowered by no one, except the woman they love. For that woman, Vivian’s boys would go to hell and back, and deny their own feelings, because her ultimate well-being and happiness is their goal.
This is especially true for Ryan and Poppy who are introduced in the Prologue as Ryan struggles to fill in time with no friends during the first few weeks at Middle School. Being a skinny late bloomer, Ryan became the target of bullies until the diminutive Poppy stepped up with some crazy of her own, kick-starting their 20 year friendship.
After the prologue introducing Ryan and Poppy as lifelong friends, the book launches straight into a sexy scene that made my eyes pop!!! Then I laughed like an idiot, when I knew exactly what that scene was!
Lifelong friends be damned, Ryan Scott definitely wants more.
While the title is provocative, it is true that Poppy is still an innocent at thirty. Understandable, however, considering her early home life that more than mentally scarred her, and her current study and work plan towards becoming a doctor has left little time to spend with her somewhat controlling boyfriend.
Ryan has been in the military since leaving school, but unfortunately for him, injury has cast it’s shadow over his career as a SEAL, forcing him into civilian life, and back into Poppy’s world. Suddenly he’s noticing little things about her. Hot and passionate thoughts that have no business between them, and could jeopardize everything about their friendship that is precious.
I enjoy the friends to lovers genre, and Claiming Her Innocence has one of the most intense build-ups in the developing sexual and romantic relationship between friends that I’ve read in quite some time, and that’s when it got hot! Holy crap, Ryan was more than a gentleman for so looooooooong!!! Vivian Wood is my favourite author in the bad boy genre, and I would easily recommend you check out her other titles for your guilty pleasure. I voluntarily read an Advance Reader Copy of this book. 5 Bad Boy Stars.
Wow, This is Another great book by Vivian Wood. This Poppy and Ryan’s story they no each since they were kids. Vivian touches on the domestic abuse she has writing it well. I couldn’t put it down and had to finish it that night, Can Ryan & Poppy go from been best Friends to lovers, Or keep fighting there attraction and chemistry between each other. Grab a copy now to see now to see how there story plays out, I highly recommend the book. I voluntarily reviewed an arc of this book