Book Review — Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan

  • Genre: Romance
  • Published by: Forever, Grand Central Publishing
  • Publish date: May 13, 2025
  • Number of pages: 448 pages
  • Author’s website: https://kennedyryanwrites.com/
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Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry’s rarefied air. Your vision board? She’s probably living it.

She’s a woman with goals, dreams, ambitions—always striving upward. And in the midst of everything, she’s facing her toughest challenge caring for an aging parent.

Who has time for romance? From her experience, there’s a low ROI on relationships. She hasn’t met the man who can keep up with her anyway. Until…him.

Tech mogul Maverick Bell is a dilemma wrapped in an exquisitely tailored suit and knee-melting charm. From their first charged glance at the summer’s hottest party, Hendrix feels like she’s met her match. Only he can’t be. Mav may be the first to make her feel this seen and desired and appreciated, but he’s the last one she can have. Forbidden fruit is the juiciest, and this man is off limits if she plans to stay the course she’s set for herself.

But when Maverick gives chase—pursuing her, spoiling her, understanding her—is it time to let herself have something more?

Rating: 5/5

Ahhhh, when I tell you I’ve been hyped for this book ever since I first met Hendrix Barry in the first Skyland Series book! As a fellow childless-by-choice Black woman, I knew I would find some kinship with Hen. This book is healing and empowering. It made me feel seen, but also gave me a unique story full of heart and respect for women who are caretakers in ways outside of motherhood and powerful friendships that feel like sisterhood.

My favorite thing about this series is how Kennedy Ryan creates such well-fleshed-out main characters and love interests. People with their own desires, motivations, and baggage.

That is absolutely the case with Can’t Get Enough. Not only is Hendrix at a point in her life where she wants to share in her successes and have a partner in life, she is also caring for her mother whose quality of life is declining from Alzheimer’s Disease. Maverick enters her life at what might not seem like the perfect time, but it is the right time. He had witnessed his own mother care for his ailing grandfather.

Despite there being a minor complication of Maverick recently ending a relationship with a woman Hendrix is working with, the spark between the two will not go out. This is a slow burn so prepare for that, but it’s soooo worth.

I’m so sad this series is coming to an end and I cried many tears with how it concluded. Thank you, Kennedy Ryan, for giving us these books!

Have you read this book? What are your thoughts? I’d love to know!

I received an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this book from Netgalley and Forever/Grand Central Publishing. This has not impacted my rating and this review is voluntary.

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