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title: "June First: Emotional Contemporary Romance with Forbidden Passion"
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# June First: Emotional Contemporary Romance with Forbidden Passion

**Brand:** jennifer hartmann
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June First: Emotional Contemporary Romance with Forbidden Passion

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    June always seems like a new beginning ❤️❤️❤️
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024*

This is not the ordinary “meant to be” love story. This is the story of what society says is abnormal, not “meant to be” and how two individuals, scarred in different ways dared to dream and fought to make their dreams come true.While some might feel this book is too long, it was precisely what I needed. I needed the lullabies, Aggie and Bubbles, the piggyback rides, the sword fights protecting Princess Peach, the first dance recital, the nights sleeping under the treehouse, the birthday parties, the quiet moments just being three children brought together by tragedy and the path they each forged. I fell so incredibly in love with these characters.This story spans thirty years of love and loss, tragedy beyond comprehension and an all-consuming love forged out of that tragedy. This  was so beautifully written and touched me in all the right places. I laughed, I cried, I swooned. And I will never listen to “Over the Rainbow” without thinking about Brandt and his Junebug.Brandt’s life dramatically changed in the blink of an eye one fateful night when he was only six years old. Everything he knew, the safety he felt was gone. He was thrust into a new reality, living with his best friend Theo and the new baby sister the boys had wished for. Brandt vowed the first night he lived with the Bailey’s to always protect June. He would always be there for her and make sure she was safe. Over the years his love only grew for his Junebug. It morphed from that of an innocent child to something deeper, something all consuming. June was always meant to be the girl next door and not his sibling. His feelings for her were confusing and messy. Everyone looked at them as siblings, but Brandt couldn’t. He fought his feelings so hard and for so long…until he couldn’t. And it wrecked him. He felt like he was not only betraying the Bailey’s but also in the end he would hurt June, and that was the last thing he ever wanted to do. He wanted her to thrive…to fly.June had never known a life without Brandt. He was always her protector and her safe space. He was her home. She would always run to Brandt to chase away her nightmares. As June grows into a young woman, her feelings for Brandt grow stronger. When she was young, Brandt was her brother, even though her feelings for him were different from how she felt about Theo. She realizes that what she feels for Brandt is deeper, and it scares her. How can she think about Brandt in any way other than her brother. All it takes is a dare from her friends and her world flips. She couldn’t understand why Brandt was pulling away from her. She felt like she was loosing everything and was determined not to let that happen. I loved how strong she was. Her love for Brandt never wavered. She made an impossibly hard decision to not only protect Brandt but to hopefully one day for them to be happy.And Theo, oh my heart Theo…he was the ultimate "saver". His love for Brandt (his Luigi) and June (his Princess Peach) was never ending. They were closer than best friends, closer than brothers. The bond between them was beautiful and at the end, it was Brandt and June he thought of.The ending was perfect! I loved the rainbows and Rupert! I loved the tradition Brandt carried on with writing moments on index cards. Getting to see how their lives played out was everything I needed. The cherished moments from their youth were still a part of their new family and complete with lullabies, treehouses and sword fights.This book will forever live in my heart. Thank you, Ms. Hartmann, for introducing me to such amazing characters and a beautiful love story.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Forbidden Love
  

*by J***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2022*

This was the first time that I read a story about forbidden love - I’ll be honest, it started a little slow for me and I honestly wasn’t even sure I was going to be able to continue reading it. I never stopped reading and I’m glad I did because it made sense as to why she had it start it the way that she did.There was a reason that every single moment had to happen in this book.  There was trauma, heartache, love and just pure happiness throughout the entire story.As always, I’m happy that Jen came out with another new book and I’m happy that I read this one and didn’t wait! Her stories just always make you feel great when you’re done reading them. <3Great job Jen!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Forbidden, tragic, and beautiful--another win for Jennifer Hartmann
  

*by B***) on Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2023*

5⭐️ 3🌶️“June always feels like a new beginning.”I will officially read anything Jennifer Hartmann writes. Any book, any preview, any grocery list. Give them all to me. I went in blind to this one (okay, I actually thought I knew what was going to happen for Brant to meet June but I was about 87 miles off the mark) and I was absolutely WRECKED one chapter in. And the hits kept coming. Tragedies come in threes and wow, did these three hit hard. But through all of the trauma, darkness, tragedy, and angst…there was exquisite beauty and love. I simply couldn’t put this book down and the sleepless night I got in exchange was well worth the reward. June and Brant are everything.“Sometimes a lot of love can make you cry.”“I don’t cry about love.”“Maybe you will someday.”“That doesn’t sound so good. I don’t think I want a lot of love.”“It’s a good thing to have. The downside is, the more love you have, the harder it is to lose it.”We got a look at the entirety of June and Brant’s relationship, spanning thirty years, and a lot of this was set in their childhood/the first eighteen years of June’s life. This was a really unique set up for the book and while I know it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea because this is a romance novel, I don’t think you could ever truly appreciate the gravity of June and Brant’s love for one another or the intricacy of their dynamics if we didn’t get the full picture. This also gave us such a special look into my favorite side characters to date–The Baileys. All so unbelievably kind, caring, and loving. I absolutely swelled with happy tears thinking of everything they did for and gave to Brant.“She claimed me like the sunrise claims the morning sky with lightness and blush, promise and wonder. She claimed me like a cyclone, funneling through a quiet town, taking no prisoners. She claimed my good and my bad, my light and my dark. She took my broken, ugly bits and molded them into something worthy of display. She turned my agony into art. June claimed me in a way that could ultimately be defined by a single word: inevitable.”As for our main characters, I was utterly taken. From the second Brant laid eyes upon June, he vowed to always protect her and they grew up in one another’s love and visceral need for the other. Through lullabies, nightmare comforts, shoulders to cry on, piggy back rides, backyard games, and all the moments in between, Brant and June became inseparable and utterly enmeshed. While our second and third tragedies showed how unhealthy this could become, I really did appreciate how they worked through their codependency and built their own spaces so that they could eventually love one another in a healthy way.“You just need to be brave that first time, then all the other times come easy.”As it always is with Jennifer’s books, this was full of angst, heartache, laughs, wit, trauma, healing, and love. I felt such a range of emotions, sometimes all at once, and it broke me in only the way a JH novel seems to know how to do before delicately piecing me back together again. This was chock full of triggers so be sure to check the warnings before diving in if you have limitations. Otherwise, going in (relatively) blind is how I recommend it. Either way, this beautiful book will keep you captivated from page one to the very end.

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