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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
medium-paced
There are many reasons this book did not work for me, but I’ll start with the positive. I loved the unrelenting passion of the FMC to follow her dreams to become a musician. That’s about it though. This story was trying to do wayyyyyy too much with a second chance romance, love triangle, infertility issues, sexual assault trauma (that wasn’t nearly fleshed out enough to do it justice), and then the most rushed ending I have ever read. This book desperately needed the editor to step in and fix the pacing problems. Honestly though, my biggest problem was that I hated two of the three main characters, and only one of them was actually a decent person. Overall, just not for me.
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There’s some random unnecessary drama at the end of this book that makes me want to give it 3 stars. But I’m trying to resist lol and I refuse to let that taint how much I enjoyed the rest of this book.
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
In most romance novels you meet the couple at the beginning of the book and the story is all about them finding their way to each other before the end. In this story there are two different guys the main woman is in love with in her life and up until the very end of the epilogue I was not sure who she was going to have her happily ever after with.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content
Moderate: Infertility, Grief, Alcohol
Minor: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Vomit, Pregnancy
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
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:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
I’m struggling to rate this. It’s out of my comfort zone and had some elements I didn’t care for. At the same time, it was compelling enough to keep me reading and had lots of wit and humor mixed in with the heavy themes. For that reason, I give it 3 stars.
Fans of 2nd chance love, love triangles, and messy and angsty stories told through multiple timelines will want to pick this up! I’m not sure if it truly qualifies as a romance but it had a strong romantic plot.
I didn’t like the rushed feeling of the last few chapters. Some major plot points got stuffed in there and I was like, “Wait, what?” And, I wasn’t really torn between the two love interests because one of them sucks (iykyk). There’s some very cringey messy stuff going on — which is likely a selling point for some readers. I was very on the fence and while I wanted to know what would happen, I also found the pace to be lagging at times. This book felt longer than 330 pages.
Fans of 2nd chance love, love triangles, and messy and angsty stories told through multiple timelines will want to pick this up! I’m not sure if it truly qualifies as a romance but it had a strong romantic plot.
I didn’t like the rushed feeling of the last few chapters. Some major plot points got stuffed in there and I was like, “Wait, what?” And, I wasn’t really torn between the two love interests because one of them sucks (iykyk). There’s some very cringey messy stuff going on — which is likely a selling point for some readers. I was very on the fence and while I wanted to know what would happen, I also found the pace to be lagging at times. This book felt longer than 330 pages.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual assault
emotional
hopeful
reflective
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
♥️ Love triangle between Maggie, Garrett and Asher
I am a sucker for a good love triangle and most of this one truly hit the spot. I was torn most of the book trying to decide who I liked better of the two guys. I was extremely bothered that Garrett couldn’t seem to make up his mind on if he wanted Maggie or if he wanted the woman he was engaged to. But his story of meeting Maggie? Them meeting up over and over once a week in the grocery store and then trying to decide if they were ready to get to know each other for real or if that would break the magic of it all? Ugh. That gave me all the butterflies. That felt like fate. But then there’s Asher who knows her from childhood and was her first real love. And they are precious. I didn’t know who I wanted until maybe 3/4 of the way through the book.
So in the end she gets with Asher and we loved this for her even though I was team Garrett. Minus the run away at the engagement party scene. Because ew that was gross and tacky and we didn’t need to be having sex at his engagement party.
On chapter 54/56 there’s a last minute breakup with Asher and Maggie. WHY. There was no alluding to this breakup reason (he didn’t want kids and she did) at all during the book for these two main characters. Yes, we see it in her friend but not herself! This took a solid star off my review rating. If you took out the last three chapters of the book it would have been infinitely better. I’m all here for throwing real life situations into the book but not when there’s only like ten pages left.
I am a sucker for a good love triangle and most of this one truly hit the spot. I was torn most of the book trying to decide who I liked better of the two guys. I was extremely bothered that Garrett couldn’t seem to make up his mind on if he wanted Maggie or if he wanted the woman he was engaged to. But his story of meeting Maggie? Them meeting up over and over once a week in the grocery store and then trying to decide if they were ready to get to know each other for real or if that would break the magic of it all? Ugh. That gave me all the butterflies. That felt like fate. But then there’s Asher who knows her from childhood and was her first real love. And they are precious. I didn’t know who I wanted until maybe 3/4 of the way through the book.
On chapter 54/56 there’s a last minute breakup with Asher and Maggie. WHY. There was no alluding to this breakup reason (he didn’t want kids and she did) at all during the book for these two main characters. Yes, we see it in her friend but not herself! This took a solid star off my review rating. If you took out the last three chapters of the book it would have been infinitely better. I’m all here for throwing real life situations into the book but not when there’s only like ten pages left.