As a fan of Lee Winter, I couldn't miss her latest work. Especially when it is set in the world of "The Brutal Truth", a world Winter has perfected and one I would love to live in forever.

While "The Brutal Truth" is mostly about Elena Bartell and Maddie Grey, Felicity Simmons plays her way into our hearts in "The Awkward Truth". The author previously introduced her as Elena's chief of staff.

As we know and love her, Felicity is full of contradictions, but that's what makes her so fascinating, albeit mysterious. However, we have only ever had a glimpse into her personality and private life until now. In this book, she has to leave her comfort zone to find her personal happiness. Of course, this does not happen without problems and obstacles. Especially when veterinarian Dr Sandy Cooper enters her life. And let me tell you, there are plenty of pets. Who can say 'no' to that?

So, will Felicity finally come out of her shell and be herself? This, as well as the background to her behaviour, is told at length in the book. I won't go into too much detail, but I can tell there's also a bit of a mystery to be solved in this story - in the best Lee Winter manner.

Assuming you love the characters in this series as much as I do, I highly recommend this book. Thanks to Lee Winter, who has created a wonderful "Truth" world, not only here but also in her other fantastic stories.

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Hum. This is a 3.5 stars for me. A bit of a disappointment, only cause I was really excited at the idea of the book when I first heard about it. I really liked Felicity as a side character in the Brutal Truth, and I loooved the short story about her in Sliced Ice, but I found myself not really connecting with this story as much.

This is very much a personal preference thing—the fact that so much of this story was about love of animals wasn’t really my thing. I like animals just fine! I even enjoy being around some of them sometimes, but constantly hearing how great cats and dogs are, and how much people are total assholes if they don’t just adore them, and want them around all the time, and jumping on you and in your bed, etc. always annoys me. This book wasn’t quuuuite that, but it sure was “gosh animals are just the absolute best” a lot of the time.

This also felt (to me) a lot more like a character study than a romance story. And once I made that shift in my brain, I started enjoying it a bit more. I enjoyed being in felicity’s head, and I enjoyed seeing her grow, but I never really connected with the relationship between her and cooper all that much. They were clearly attracted to each other, idk, maybe because it takes place mostly over a week I just didn’t quite feel it as much as I was supposed to?

It certainly wasn’t bad by any means. Lee Winter is a wonderful writer, and some of her novels are my favorite sapphic stories out there, but a few of them have just kinda been okay for me, and this was one of them, I think. That said, I will def be excited to listen to this once it is an audiobook too, and I think others will enjoy this a lot more than I did. As it was, it was solidly okay for me and I’m glad I read it. ( )