Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan is an impressive grand finale for the Skyland series. Hendrix’s long-awaited HEA brought everything home. Plus, her love story was wonderfully decadent. I thoroughly enjoyed the jet-setting dates, the gifts, her clothes, and the food and drinks (the whiskey scene!). She was treated like a goddess.
Stylistically, Can’t Get Enough unfolds like high-society epistolary romance. Kennedy Ryan, of course, gives the epistolary element a fun contemporary twist that adds feet-kicking tension to the budding longing between Hendrix and her billionaire soul mate, Maverick.
The epistolary details were an especially fun element to annotate.
Hendrix and Maverick send missives with the full array of modern communication methods. Love blooms through phone calls and flower deliveries, surprise headlines and thoughtful text messages, a simultaneously watched TV show and (my favorite) the unexpected pan of a Jumbotron camera.
The first epistolary-themed annotation I made occurred very early because the idea of Hendrix’s phone was conspicuously present in the first scene with Maverick. Their meet cute happened, in fact, because she wanted to look at her phone. (He was at the quiet spot near the bar that she snuck away to.) Soon after meeting, he vied to get her number. Then, before you know it, he’s trying not to eavesdrop on her call. What Hendrix says and how she says it on that call haunts Maverick’s smitten heart.
Kennedy Ryan’s careful artistic vision for the Skyland series culminated like fireworks in this final book.
It was jaw-dropping, honestly, to see some of the series’ patterns come to full fruition. For example, the beginnings and endings of all three books are reverently interconnected. I’m in awe of Kennedy Ryan’s craft. (The explanation that comes next is spoiler free. I’m only talking about timing and setting for the beginning and endings of the three Skyland books.)
Look at what Kennedy Ryan does with the openings of Before I Let Go, This Could Be Us, and Can’t Get Enough. ALL THREE begin at night with an annual celebration.
- In BILG, it’s Soledad’s birthday.
- In TCBU, it’s an office holiday party.
- In CGE, it’s a star-studded Miami house party that takes place every year.
Now, get this. The ending scenes have a nighttime pattern too.
In the final chapter or epilogue of Before I Let Go, This Could Be Us, and Can’t Get Enough, there are nighttime scenes. Always, the FMC and MMC are outside enjoying the open air under a starry sky. Because Skyland is the series name, those details and their tripled-up repetition, landed so pitch perfectly for me. I love the details in Kennedy Ryan’s work.
Thank you Net Galley for an e-arc of Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan. All opinions are my own.
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