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3.86 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

This is my new favorite love story. I stayed up way too late reading it the first night and planned my next two days around when I could keep reading and finish it. This story will stick with me and I'll have to reread it over and over. I love that Adam and Jess see each other from the first second and they find a way to fix themselves and be together.
challenging emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The premise of the book had potential but the characters were sooooo bland. Don’t know anything about them and felt no connection to them!
adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It was a very cute book and Jess is kinda a bitch but I rlly enjoyed the plot and how everything came tg. We love a lil road trip adventure.
emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
emotional medium-paced

True rating (if GR did 1/2 stars) - 3.5

What an emotional ride! The relationships in this one were everything: Jess and Tegan (half sisters), Jess and Adam (strangers-to-friends-to-lovers), Salem and Adam (boss/employee with a twist), Salem + the sisters (different relationship with each one). This was just a really good story --- part women's fiction, part romance, part mystery. Kate Clayborn really knows how to weave a tale that pulls you in. There was great mental health rep and complex connections. Read with caution if you are triggered by: parental abandonment, grief from loss of a loved one, and depression.

I don’t listen to podcasts and I hate true crime so I was going to skip this book, even though I like Kate Clayborn. But then my library got a copy so I figured why not give it a go. Lesson learned: trust Kate Clayborn.

I liked how the sisters came together; I loved how Adam cares for Jess (yes it was instalove but that’s not a dealbreaker for me). I do think he probably needed therapy as much as the girls did and I wish that had been addressed, but these are minor quibbles in a book that I didn’t expect to enjoy but found I really liked.