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A review by bribreez
Chasing Home by Hannah Cowan
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
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? Yes
4.75
4.75⭐️/ 3-4🌶️ (5 times)
Cherry Peak is the sweet small town that has all the lovely and amazing people that I love. Including a variety of tropes that I equally love! This story followed a character that I have seen throughout the series, and with each book I have grown more curious about. Johnny was that character who always had such a brightness to him that it was easy to have a smile on your face, and wish you could bask in his sunshine personality. When it came to the romance department, Johnny was the single one in the friend group, but that all changed when the new girl strolled into town, and immediately caught Johnny’s eye. Aurora or as she preferred, Rory was the black cat who kept her distance from everyone after arriving in Cherry Peak. Rory felt like an outside despite being welcomed with open arms to the friend group in Cherry Peak, and with a certain ruggedly handsome, young twenty-two year old cowboy wanting to spend time with her, she felt conflicted from her original plan. This story had me falling in love with Johnny from the first few pages, and wanting to know more about Rory, and her mysterious backstory. With tropes like, reverse age gap, love at first sight for him, found family, small town cowboy romance, and more, Hannah Cowan really did write another wonderful story within this series that I love so much!
Cherry Peak is the sweet small town that has all the lovely and amazing people that I love. Including a variety of tropes that I equally love! This story followed a character that I have seen throughout the series, and with each book I have grown more curious about. Johnny was that character who always had such a brightness to him that it was easy to have a smile on your face, and wish you could bask in his sunshine personality. When it came to the romance department, Johnny was the single one in the friend group, but that all changed when the new girl strolled into town, and immediately caught Johnny’s eye. Aurora or as she preferred, Rory was the black cat who kept her distance from everyone after arriving in Cherry Peak. Rory felt like an outside despite being welcomed with open arms to the friend group in Cherry Peak, and with a certain ruggedly handsome, young twenty-two year old cowboy wanting to spend time with her, she felt conflicted from her original plan. This story had me falling in love with Johnny from the first few pages, and wanting to know more about Rory, and her mysterious backstory. With tropes like, reverse age gap, love at first sight for him, found family, small town cowboy romance, and more, Hannah Cowan really did write another wonderful story within this series that I love so much!
Ok, but I’m going to need to ask Santa or someone to get me Johnny for myself A.S.A.P.! Johnny was already someone who I liked in the previous books with the scenes he appeared in, but getting to know more about him made him so much more endearing to me. I’m a hopeless romantic and I’m all for romance anything so, to see a male character who was all about romance, and essentially a romantic at heart, I felt a kinship to Johnny. The thing I loved about Johnny was his unabashed affection and honesty about his feelings towards Rory. From the moment Johnny set eyes on Rory, he felt an immediate connection that he needed to see through, and get to know the woman who ensnared him. While Rory was albeit a bit reluctant to move things forward at first, Johnny was never deterred and instead determined to show Rory how serious he was about her. I loved seeing Johnny pulling out all the stops for Rory, and he was perfect example of, “if he wanted to, HE WOULD”. Basically, Johnny was the new book boyfriend for me, and I thank my lucky stars that Hannah wrote him to perfection! Chef kisses all around for Johnny!
This was a great reverse age gap romance! I surprisingly wasn’t expecting to look Johnny and Rory’s story as much as I did. Going into the series, I was obviously looking forward (and ended up loving) Brody and Anna’s story, and even enjoyed Poppy and Garrison’s story too. Throughout the series, Johnny’s character has become more prominent and intriguing to me that when it finally came to his book, I was welcomed with so many wonderful things about him that it made me love him even more. Rory was initially a closed off person, and wasn’t looking to settle down in Cherry Peak, only looking for the answers she wanted answered. With Johnny’s optimism and brightness, and even the rest of the friend group from, Poppy, Anna, and Bryce, and even Brody’s grandparents, everyone welcomed Rory with open arms into the family she found herself becoming part of. The found family in this series has grown over the course of each book, and with Rory’s backstory pertaining to her birth dad, seeing her story come full circle to embracing the family she found in her friends and Johnny was heartwarming and goes to show that family doesn’t just mean blood, but the ones you choose to have in your life. Rory and Johnny were great together, and despite the age gap between them, it wasn’t a glaring problem for them. I often times forgot that Johnny was twenty-two especially with how mature and thoughtful he was in his job, friendships, and romance with Rory. If I could pick which book has been my favorite in the series so far, it might be a tie between this book and the first one. Regardless, I would say read every book in the series because, Hannah Cowan wrote such fantastic characters that are all equally wonderful and amazing. This story wrapped up on a happy ending, and with the epilogue I was more than excited to see the future for the next book with Bryce and…a certain someone’s twin sister! Yay! Johnny and Rory were great! Loved this book!