Saving 6
Chloe Walsh, 2023
Joey Lynch is trouble with a wrecked home behind him; Aoife Molloy refuses to be scared off. An Irish love story about two people who keep hurting. Joey and Aoife's pull is charged and anxious, with raw Irish voices and a pace that keeps tipping from longing into hurt.
Feels like passion, longing and unease. About love, identity and family.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy messy, character-driven romance where love and damage sit close together and neither person is easy to fix. The dialogue is raw and the emotional stretches are heavy, with self-destructive behavior and language that doesn't soften.
Why read it
Read it for the charged push and pull between two flawed people, and for a love story that doesn't tidy up the hurt.
A page from the book
The case for loving someone who ruins your peace.
You shouldn’t settle for anything less than being in love to the point of madness. The only person that you should be settling for is the person who unsettles you the most. The person who drives you to the brink of suicide because he or she makes you feel so fucking much that you can’t catch your breath or remotely function without them. And what’s more is you won’t want to. You won’t want to breathe, or feel, or fucking function without them. That’s how you’ll know that it’s a real relationshop Molloy. Only when you’re feeling the most discomfort you’ve ever felt in your entire life, should you even consider settling. Because that’s when you’ll know you’re in love, which, sounds to me, like a hell of a lot nicer way to live than settling for someone you have nothing in common with because it’s comfortable. Chloe Walsh.Joey and Aoife first appeared as supporting characters in Binding 13, the opening book of Walsh's Boys of Tommen series, before getting their own story here.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Saving 6 for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy messy, character-driven romance where love and damage sit close together and neither person is easy to fix. The dialogue is raw and the emotional stretches are heavy, with self-destructive behavior and language that doesn't soften.
- What is Saving 6 like?
- Joey and Aoife's pull is charged and anxious, with raw Irish voices and a pace that keeps tipping from longing into hurt. Feels like passion, longing and unease. About love, identity and family.
- What should I read after Saving 6?
- If you liked Saving 6, try After (Anna Todd), Things We Never Got Over (Lucy Score) and Losing Hope (Colleen Hoover).
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Hardin is like a drug; each time I take the tiniest bit of him, I crave more and more. He consumes my thoughts and invades my dreams.
After · Anna Todd
When everything else is material, what is the one thing that truly matters?
You can have anything you want. A big church wedding. A backyard barbecue. A five-figure wedding dress. But I have one demand.” Of course it was a demand and not a request. “What’s that?” “I want daisies in your hair.
Things We Never Got Over · Lucy Score
Missing someone is proof you were lucky, not unlucky.
But I’ve learned over the past year what it really means to be able to miss someone. In order to miss someone, that means you were privileged enough to have them in your life to begin with.
Losing Hope · Colleen Hoover
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