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The Love Fix by Jill Shalvis
4.0

⭐ 4
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πŸ₯΅ Spicy chapters: 19 (not very graphic)
πŸ“š Tropes/Themes: second chance, it's always been you, childhood crush, friends to lovers, small town, coming home, starting over, enemies to lovers, found family, slow burn, chick lit
πŸ‘€ Dual POV 3rd person 
πŸ’” Triggers: parental death, gambling addiction, mentions of alcoholism and abusive parents

πŸ’¬ Well, if I had to choose one word to describe this book I would say healing. This book is definitely more chick lit than romance. I'm not complaining! I really enjoyed it! I just usually think of most books that I'm reading as being romance first and other genres second. But in my defense the title could be a tiny bit misleading... Right? πŸ˜… I guess when all you read is romance, you automatically assume that love only means romantic love and not familial love.

Everybody just has so much trauma LOL. It's amazing just how much our parents can fuck us up πŸ˜‚ Obviously Lexie is the main one who's struggling to process her past and the broken relationship that she had with her mother, but also with her relationship with her stepsister Ashley. You also get to watch Heath, her high school crush process through his childhood trauma and grief. And then through it all how they find each other. 

I was happy to see all the healing. It's very emotional and heartwarming being there to see all three of the main characters process and struggle and come out the other side. The warm fuzzies that I got from this book weren't so much romance related but "finding your peace" related. 

That said, I think I would have enjoyed this more if it had been more focused on the romance and not the trauma; I wouldn't say that it was triggering or relatable but it did bring up some uncomfortable feelings about my childhood. 

Still an excellent book, though. The characters are richly developed, and there's so much depth to the story. It's very satisfying.