He's also apprently different and has "bad manners" because he thinks he's super freaky and savage in bed (he's not) because he's old and knows better than the "little girl" (yep). In the rearview mirror, I looked at my daughters, and as always, I was half-stunned to see them sitting back there—was I really a father? Frannie was a 24 year old whose parents owned Cloverleigh Farms and Mac was a 34 year old single father of three girls.

I was about to sit up and inform them there would be no fucking tattoos given with permanent markers on my watch—I could already hear their mother yelling at me for it—when Hallie said, “Let’s poke him. The best way to describe it is: I could totally see this couple, five years down the line, getting an amicable divorce. Imagine if that were a woman, how everyone would look at her like an incompetent girl, for not knowing how to do these things.They just get to fuck around and be less than mediocre, yet, they're so much more loved by their children than the other parent. If I ever say I don’t like the single parent trope from this day forward, I give you all permission to slap me. They have this one hot moment where Dex rubs the tip of his beer bottle on Winnie's lower lip while making eye contact. Ellie is Winnie’s bestie, so she was in Ignite a bit and I loved her – especially the punishment she concocted for Winnie – but there were a few scenes with her and Gianni and ooooooh my gosh, I’m so excited! Anyway, my dearest little boy Dex, don't you get tired of shitting on your ex-wife for being a decent, responsible mother, or maybe do you get tired of comparing the woman you're fucking to your own daughters?

Ignite was absolutely everything I was looking for and needed and in true Melanie form she gave me a fantastic romance with amazing characters and all of the feels. Her heros always do the bare minimum for their girl and it is usually the heroine who ends up sacrificing so much (In Ignite, Winnie gives up a great job opportunity to be with him). But it had taken me a solid twenty minutes of working on the gum in Luna’s hair before I gave up and cut it out, and then Hallie hadn’t been able to find her lucky penny. If it was anyone else, I’d have blown it off, but I hadn’t seen Chip in several years, and he was only in town for one night. It’s weird cause it was obvious but at the same time insignificant because they just fit so well together.I went into this not knowing that it was a “next generation” story, which I tend to avoid like the plague.