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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
This was my first Sarah Bailey read and my first second chance in a while, and I loved every second of it!
Leo Graham was the greenest green flag that ever green-flagged! I LOVED him so much. He was perfect as a teen, and perfect as a man. He had me swooooooooooning. I can’t cope with him not being real!
Leo Graham was the greenest green flag that ever green-flagged! I LOVED him so much. He was perfect as a teen, and perfect as a man. He had me swooooooooooning. I can’t cope with him not being real!
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Well... I get the hype! Sarah took me on a freaking JOURNEY with Darby & Leo’s story. Holy cow! I’m going to need at least 2 business days to process this (in the best way possible).
The storytelling ability that Sarah has is just unreal honestly. Dual timeline stories aren’t always my favourite because it constantly feels like I’m getting pulled out of a situation into another, but this one was done in a way that they were so connected that it felt like I was in one of the characters brains reliving that time in the past.
Darby and Leo are amazing! Their connection right from the start and after 10 years felt exactly the same and I just love them so much!
Heaven & Honeysuckle is a beautiful story about two young lovers who lost their way but reunite years later in the most beautiful story with the perfect amount of spice. The way Leo loves Darby is perfection. He is all about her and loved her since day one. I love when a MMC knows what he wants! I love that Darby found her voice and took control of her life. The dual timeline + dual POV was *chefs kiss*. This book dealt with some heavy topics, but how they supported each other through them was written perfectly!
If you’re looking for a redeeming love story, this is it!
Special thank you to the author of this beautiful story, Sarah A. Bailey for sending me an ARC! I’m looking forward to your next book in the Pacific Shores series.
4.5 ⭐️
Tropes:
Second Chance Romance
Dual Timeline
Good Girl x Bad Boy
Small Town
Runaway Bride
Pro Surfer MMC
Road Trip
Trauma & Healing
If you’re looking for a redeeming love story, this is it!
Special thank you to the author of this beautiful story, Sarah A. Bailey for sending me an ARC! I’m looking forward to your next book in the Pacific Shores series.
4.5 ⭐️
Tropes:
Second Chance Romance
Dual Timeline
Good Girl x Bad Boy
Small Town
Runaway Bride
Pro Surfer MMC
Road Trip
Trauma & Healing
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Embarrassingly overdue ARC review - my thanks and apologies to the author for the ARC and for her patience!
It was a good book, nicely paced and equal parts angst and spice. The language got a little floofy towards the end (“you feel like coming home”, “you look like salvation”, things like that).
Bring on the next one!
It was a good book, nicely paced and equal parts angst and spice. The language got a little floofy towards the end (“you feel like coming home”, “you look like salvation”, things like that).
Bring on the next one!
I am still in shock at the absolute MASTERPIECE of a book I just read. I mean there is not a single miss in this book. Everything about it was literal perfection and I will except 0 criticism from anyone about it.
This was my first Sarah book and it will absolutely NOT be my last. Her writing is some of the most beautiful work I've EVER read and I can't wait to dive into her backlist.
Being in my second chance romance era while reading this, I just have to say that NOBODY does dual timeline writing like Sarah Bailey. I am genuinely in awe at how she can change her writing style and tone to fit the time period of the chapter. The "then" chapters have that teenage dream, infatuation feeling through them. While the "now" chapter are written to show that they have grown up, become adults, and have different struggles of love and loss. I am truly blown away by her ability to toggle back and forth between the different tones so easily and seamlessly.
And the nicknames, don't even get me started. Those are some of the cutest and most creative nicknames I've heard from an author and they are PERFECT together. I love that they embodied their personalities so freaking well. I love the moments that their together, she was his honeysuckle and he was her heathen.
The plot was incredible, the emotion and twist and turns of the book were done beautifully, and the spice that had me SWEATING and reaching for my boyfriend.
I will never be the same after reading a book like this and I hope you all take a chance on Sarah Bailey and these two characters. There are books in your life that you read and haven't finished yet and think to yourself "this book has changed my soul, altered my brain chemistry, and broke and healed pieces of me I didn't know I needed healed." This was one of those books for me. It was an easy 5 stars before I even finished the book - but wrapping it up, I knew this was an infinity star read for me because I'd never be the same and always think about these two.
Also - special shoutout to Tori (@toriannreads) and Moe (@moereadsromance) for "lightly" bullying me into reading this book and meeting these characters. And Sarah Bailey for putting up with my unhingedness in her DMs. LOVE YOU - sorry not sorry LOL.
This was my first Sarah book and it will absolutely NOT be my last. Her writing is some of the most beautiful work I've EVER read and I can't wait to dive into her backlist.
Being in my second chance romance era while reading this, I just have to say that NOBODY does dual timeline writing like Sarah Bailey. I am genuinely in awe at how she can change her writing style and tone to fit the time period of the chapter. The "then" chapters have that teenage dream, infatuation feeling through them. While the "now" chapter are written to show that they have grown up, become adults, and have different struggles of love and loss. I am truly blown away by her ability to toggle back and forth between the different tones so easily and seamlessly.
And the nicknames, don't even get me started. Those are some of the cutest and most creative nicknames I've heard from an author and they are PERFECT together. I love that they embodied their personalities so freaking well. I love the moments that their together, she was his honeysuckle and he was her heathen.
The plot was incredible, the emotion and twist and turns of the book were done beautifully, and the spice that had me SWEATING and reaching for my boyfriend.
I will never be the same after reading a book like this and I hope you all take a chance on Sarah Bailey and these two characters. There are books in your life that you read and haven't finished yet and think to yourself "this book has changed my soul, altered my brain chemistry, and broke and healed pieces of me I didn't know I needed healed." This was one of those books for me. It was an easy 5 stars before I even finished the book - but wrapping it up, I knew this was an infinity star read for me because I'd never be the same and always think about these two.
Also - special shoutout to Tori (@toriannreads) and Moe (@moereadsromance) for "lightly" bullying me into reading this book and meeting these characters. And Sarah Bailey for putting up with my unhingedness in her DMs. LOVE YOU - sorry not sorry LOL.