Why You'll Love This
Most romance sequels coast on goodwill — this one earns its ending by making the hard part the whole point.
- Great if you want: an age-gap lesbian romance with real emotional stakes and texture
- The experience: steamy and emotionally charged — tension doesn't let up after book one
- The writing: Sinclair writes power dynamics with unusual precision and self-awareness
- Skip if: you haven't read book one — this doesn't work as a standalone
About This Book
Two women who found each other against every reasonable expectation now have to figure out what comes next — and it turns out that falling in love is considerably easier than staying there. Above All Things picks up where the first book left off, dropping Jules and Vivian into the harder work of building something real: navigating careers, clashing families, and an unexpected pregnancy that reshuffles every priority. The stakes here are quieter than dramatic, but no less urgent — this is a story about whether two people who want each other can also choose each other, again and again, when life keeps making it complicated.
Roslyn Sinclair writes romantic tension the way it actually operates — not in grand gestures but in loaded pauses, small vulnerabilities, and the specific friction of two very different people trying to make room for each other. Her prose is clean and propulsive without sacrificing emotional texture, and her characterization of Vivian in particular rewards patient readers with layers that only become visible over time. For readers who finished the first book hungry for more, this one delivers on the promise — and then goes somewhere deeper.