Krista Ritchie

​His Bodyguard. His Love. Maverick, know-it-all bodyguard Farrow Keene knows publicly dating American royalty comes with a great cost. Everyone wants a piece of their relationship. And as a protective boyfriend, he’s not here for the malicious hands that grab at their love life and seek to rip them apart. But Farrow is confident — he’s confident that he could’ve never prepared for the storm to come. Keep him safe. Maximoff Hale isn’t a big fan of change. And to regain the charity CEO position he lost, he agrees to a task that he’s always rejected. One that could uproot his unconventional world. But Maximoff is afraid — he’s afraid of the consequences that could destroy his boyfriend and his family. Keep him safe. Changes are on the horizon. Big. Messy. Complicated. Changes. Maximoff & Farrow will fight for their forever. And with every breath, they promise that their love story won’t end here. ​

Alphas Like Us

Keira 💫

brianna

”hurt somebody” by noah kahan, julia michaels

“I’m lightning then, and you’re thunder. You always follow me every time I appear.”

MARROW HAVE MY HEART!! this book made me I cry sm

The third installment of the Like Us series from New York Times bestselling authors Krista & Becca Ritchie!

Annabella

This book was just what I needed--usual Ritchie magic that granted me a break from the stress of long academic days with cruel hours, so  thankyouthankyouthankyou  girls.

Core Six my actual family and I almost shed a tear with some Lily and Lo scenes

Lo stares up at the sky again, and when his sharp-edged gaze falls to me, he says, “Because I was raised by a bad man who was also a bad father.” He pauses. “And despite whatever feelings I have about it, my son thinks I’m good, and every day I try to prove him right.” 

And the 2 Lunnelly scenes I gasped they’re everything…

Kristina

Zarah Hussain

Yami🌷

“You’ve been my forever guy. You are my forever guy, wolf scout.”

Maximoff y Farrow los amo mucho y se merecen todo. Me encantó lo mucho que avanzó su relación y están COMPROMETIDOS AAAAAAA

Voy a estar esperando esa boda🤧

No tengo mucho que decir solo que los amo mucho a todos y ya quiero leer lo que sigue❤️

“There’s no one else, Farrow. You’re it. You’re the one, the only one.”

(Una frase más porque amé ese momento🥺)

Anastasia 

shar

brooke

samantha youngclaus

anessa lawrence 

“Dum spiro, spero.”

“You know what that means—”

“While I breathe,’” he translates, “‘I hope.’”

Thmaiden

Loved these two, I’m so glad they got their HEA

Becca Ritchie

His Bodyguard. His Love. Maverick, know-it-all bodyguard Farrow Keene knows publicly dating American royalty comes with a great cost. Everyone wants a piece of their relationship. And as a protective boyfriend, he's not here for the malicious hands that grab at their love life and seek to rip them apart. But Farrow is confident -- he's confident that he could've never prepared for the storm to come. Keep him safe. Maximoff Hale isn't a big fan of change. And to regain the charity CEO position he lost, he agrees to a task that he's always rejected. One that could uproot his unconventional world. But Maximoff is afraid -- he's afraid of the consequences that could destroy his boyfriend and his family. Keep him safe. Changes are on the horizon. Big. Messy. Complicated. Changes. Maximoff & Farrow will fight for their forever. And with every breath, they promise that their love story won't end here. ​​The Like Us series is a true series, one continuous timeline, that follows a family of wealthy celebrities and the people that protect them. You must read Books 1 and 2 before reading Alphas Like Us. The Like Us Series: 1. Damaged Like Us (Maximoff & Farrow) 2. Lovers Like Us (Maximoff & Farrow) 3. Alphas Like Us (Maximoff & Farrow) 4. Tangled Like Us (Jane & Thatcher) Book 5 (Jane & Thatcher) Book 6 (Maximoff & Farrow) Book 7 (Oscar & Jack) Book 8 (Akara & Sulli)

Sophie 

Oh they deserve everything don’t they omg Farrow and Moffy oh my angels!!!
The book was so good the twists god I had whiplash. I lost my breath at most points i was just too excited lol. Everything about this was amazing. Also the setting up for some potential couples AH !!! Bloody brilliant can’t wait to read their fourth book !! Onto Jane’s story (which is one out of two I’m so excited for !!)

“I’m lightning then, and you’re thunder. You always follow me every time I appear.”

Nedu

rip to the potential baby moffy had. this 2 stars is really generous though. anyways, fingers crossed that Jane's book improves by a lot because moffy's trilogy was a whole lot of trash.

Kyra

this book shook me the most out of all the marrow books. i mean, i loved the tour, i loved how all the cousins are together and we can fully meet them. but this book totally broke me. the car crash, the whole xander storyline (the xander - moffy scene on the yacht really hit too close to home).if i want to be honest, i wanted to just get over with it, finish with marrow so i can finally reach cobaretti. but damn... kbr has done it again. another it couple, a god tier ship. they truly never miss, huh? 

Andrea Cabezudo García

3'5/5
I swear, Kitsulli and Lunnelly will be the death of me.

Aayusma Aryal

Lacey

SOOOO happy this isn't the end for Moffy and Farrow!! Cannot WAIT for their next book. But right now I'm dying for Jane and Thatcher!

Jessica 

Like Us Series:
 
Damaged Like Us: ★★★★☆
Lovers Like Us: ★★★★★
Alphas Like Us: ★★★★★
Tangled Like Us: ★★★★★
Sinful Like Us: TBD
Headstrong Like Us: TBD
Untitled: TBD
Untitled: TBD 

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Is there anything better than a new book by Krista and Becca Ritchie? Okay, okay. You got me. Logically speaking, there are a lot of things that would tie pretty close to being as good but not quite on its level. I'm so profoundly attached to the world that the Ritchie Sisters have created for us--from its beginnings in Addicted all the way to Like Us, I'm so attached to these characters. Alphas Like Us reminds me why... not that I needed the reminder to begin with.

First of all, it's impossible for me to not love every last (main) character in this series. I've tried. I can't. Both Krista and Becca Ritchie have such a deep understanding of what makes a person, well, a person. And this is the best way to describe the characterizations of the cast of Alphas Like Us. We aren't cheated out of flaws. There's no such thing as perfection. You'll swoon. You'll cry. You'll groan in frustration. You'll see signs of life and there's not much else to say beyond what I've said in the past--Krista and Becca Ritchie write their characters in true-to-life living colour; they may as well be your very best friend. Sometimes, you half expect them to slide from the pages and pop around for a chat.

Or maybe that's just me. I do have an attachment to these characters. It's kind of impossible not to.

Like his parents before him, Maximoff Hale is flawed and intriguing. He is alive. You want to know everything about him. Most importantly, you want for him to live a happy life--and you want that happily ever after with his boyfriend, Farrow Keene.

(Who, of course, you love, too.)

One of the best things about his story in the Like Us series is we don't see him as just Lily and Loren's oldest son. We saw his conception, his birth and his early years throughout the stories that spanned his families books. By the time Damaged Like Us rolls around, Maximoff is an adult who'd grown up in the spotlight (thrown into an impossible life that no one really had a choice about) and was frankly just trying to do his best.

We see him not as a child, but as the individual that he is. In this time, we learned things about him--his fears, his fiercely protective nature, his flaws, his desires and most importantly his heart. I knew I would love him from the start, but the further we dived into those flaws (the similarities between him and his parents) and watched as he fell in love? Swoon. There's something so likable about Maximoff that I'm not sure what kind of monster wouldn't root for him.

(I love my bisexual son!)

Alphas Like Us picks up quite quickly after Lovers Like Us. Maximoff and Farrow are exactly as we want them to be--flawed, happy and thriving.

As their relationship remains steady and progresses as any good romance should, we learn more about Maximoff's relationships with his family and cousins. As per usual, the side characters are more than just background noise to the plotlines featured. We get glimpses of what's to come outside of their story but the central plots go beyond family and coming of age. There's a lot of bumps in between time, but it's nothing they can't handle together.

This time, we see Farrow's growth take an unexpected (but not entirely so) change of pace. After one night threatens to tear him and Maximoff apart, and one of them is seriously injured, Farrow decides that--while he loves his job as a bodyguard--he should have never fully given up on medicine. I loved the change of pace because there's something so relatable about there being two massive parts to one person and in Farrow's case, medicine is a part of him that he can't outrun forever. 

While the journey has been split for both of them, I felt as though Farrow's journey took the forefront this time around and Alphas Like Us allowed him to shine in a way that we knew he always would. I feel like his character growth left me feeling like I did in Hothouse Flower, watching Daisy search and search for herself. Or even in Kiss The Sky, as Connor discovered the path to accepting--and to giving--love.

That's what I love most about these books. It's all about family. It's all about love. It's all about series of connections and mistakes and triumphs. Alphas Like Us feels like a classic Ritchie Squared novel in the sense that it tugs at your heartstrings and keeps you attached to this family. One would think that, at this point, there would be no more stories left to tell--but boy, is there ever.

I'm excited to see Maximoff and Farrow again in the future.

But I'm also ready to see some of Maximoff's family take center stage.

Krista and Becca Ritchie have done it again. Alphas Like Us is full of heart and soul. It's impossible to put down and even more impossible to forget.

Alphas Like Us

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