The Proposal (The Survivors' Club #1) By Mary Balogh

The Proposal by Mary Balogh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is my first book by Mary Balogh and I have to say Wow!!

The title of the series caught my eyes at first, and then the idea itself, the members f the survivor's club and their camaraderie pulled at me. Bonds between people whither they were family or strangers always was my favorite things to see in books. And this series had it.

Hugo was honestly adorable, and as I mentioned in previous reviews I have a soft spot for huge bulking brutes, and Hugo was definitely huge. Yet to his family he was the Gentle Giant XD. He was scared mentally and emotionally in the war, yet slowly connected with people, reluctantly at first but getting to know and care for them he did, the club members at first, Gwen and then his family.

Gwen was the gentle obedient good firl type, this book wasn't the type to show us that the heroine going off on adventures and changing, no this was about exposing oneself to those who matter, and that what Gwen was doing throughout the book.

- I used to hear that people can expose their inner thought t strangers much easier than to friends, because you might not meet those people ever again, that made me think maybe that's why Gwen and Hugo unburdened themselves to each other at first

- I loved the part when Hugo was with his club members, and his family

- I loved the whole part when Gwen was with the Survivor club for the duration of her recovery

- I lived their supposedly dirty talk

- Hugo expatriated me most of the time when he kept talking about the different in classes and how they won't fit, but I liked his bluntness

- Loved the part when Hugo's former second-in-command defended him even though he hated him

- Loved the whole part when Gwen goes to Hugo's house party to meet his family

- Hugo was the one who mostly was changed in this story, not on the dynamical sense, where he got shot by a lighting and the impact left him changed, No. It was mostly slowly not even him noticed it, he started to d things he thought he might hate only discovering that he enjoyed it, he started to smile, make jokes, and Wink! well he turned to the better of course, which showed how much his war scars started to heal.

Overall, *thumps up* and I totally loved the whole things all over XD



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