Did I Mention I Love You? By Estelle Maskame

Synopsis/Summary:

When sixteen-year-old Eden Munro agrees to spend the summer with her estranged father in the beachfront city of Santa Monica, California, she has no idea what she’s letting herself in for. Eden's parents are divorced and have gone their separate ways, and now her father has a brand new family. For Eden, this means she's about to meet three new step-brothers. The eldest of the three is Tyler Bruce, a troubled teenager with a short temper and a huge ego. Complete polar opposites, Eden quickly finds herself thrust into a world full of new experiences as Tyler's group of friends take her under their wing. But the one thing she just can't understand is Tyler, and the more she presses to figure out the truth about him, the more she finds herself falling for the one person she shouldn't – her step-brother.

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⭐⭐⭐/5

Here we go again with one of the first books I read… and obviously, it has an addictive and lovely Wattpad style. If you say that you had never read any of these books I will definitely not believe you. I think every person who likes novels that contain romance went through these books at least one time; With that said, I will recommend this book for people who are getting into reading or those who love simple and easygoing Wattpad novels.

Did I mention I love you? is the first book of a quadrilogy in where, during the first three novels you will see the perspective of Eden, a sixteen-year-old girl that after some time without seeing his father, decides to spend a whole summer with him in California. When she arrives at her father’s house she is astonished to find he has formed a brand new family, with three unexpected stepbrothers and one possible (or impossible?) love.

This novel was addictive. It doesn’t have anything that makes it outstanding from other books but, I don’t understand how, all you want to do is keep passing the pages in order to learn more about this love story. Did I mention I love you? deals with the you-are-my-stepbrother-troup and I believe it achieves it very well. You love the relationship they have and the impossibility of being brothers. Estelle Maskame does now how to build tension. All the glances Eden and Tyler share where she portraits them as real and all I wanted to do was scream at the poor book to do something about it. I did not read the last novel, which is told from Tyler’s point of view of the events happened in the previous books. What I did read was the first three and my absolute favorite was the second: Did I mention I need you? That does not take the fact that this one really hooked me and kept me thinking of it even when I was not reading. Also, I felt that the author gave me space for me to be able to put myself in the protagonist’s shoes. I could understand her. She was new in town, with a whole new family, where she had to make new friends and comprehend her new feelings towards someone that she believed was impossible to have feelings for.

You are probably asking yourself why I rate it with three stars if I really enjoyed the process of reading it. And it is because, if you asked me my rating three years ago, when I rejected any book that did not contain only teenage romances without any fantasy I would definitely, without thinking it twice, rate it 4/4.5 stars. But today, that I expanded my horizons on books and one of my favorite genres is fantasy, if a re-read it, I will not enjoy this book as much as I liked it in the past. It is quite simple and sometimes repetitive. Tyler is the typical teenage boy who thinks he is superior to the others because he is good-looking. The bad guy, that has a shady past in where they taught him to put his guard up when it comes to people until that girl appears and changes his world upside down. These things do not make it a bad book, but still, it doesn’t make it original and, surely did not keep me guessing. Sometimes Tyler had moments in which he was super toxic and even though the old me thought of it as something inviting, the new me thinks of it as “reeeed flaaag girl!”

All in all, if you want to give it a shot and build your own opinion on this novel, go ahead and try because you will not dislike it :)