And you’d have to be okay with the boyfriend scenario, though I wouldn’t call this a love triangle really.įrom USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a heartfelt romantic comedy about new beginnings and finding the romanticized happily ever after in the most unlikely of places. Who would I recommend this to? Women’s fiction lovers, small town romance fans – anyone willing to be very, very patient while our couple slowly gets their act together. But I HAVE enjoyed a significant portion of it. I’m exhausted just thinking about another 250 pages with this vibe. Would I finish this? I fully intended to, but then I kept starting new books and never coming back to this one. I really expected the boyfriend to be out of the picture by now though, and it’s become an issue. I was also loving that our hero was forced to come to the realization that he let a great girl get away, AND he has to watch her happy with someone else. I’m a big fan of Meghan Quinn, but I tend to prefer her indie books over her traditionally published ones, and this has the least romance out of any of them yet. Was I enjoying it initially? Yes, definitely.

It’s definitely got women’s fiction vibes as much as romance ones – with only infrequent interactions between the characters – and I’m just bored. I’m a slow burn lover who can survive on tiny romantic breadcrumbs, but even I was struggling with this scenario. So romantic thoughts have literally only crossed her mind a time or two in the 200 pages I’ve read, and she’s still kissing/willing to sleep with the boyfriend. This couple went on one blind date awhile back, and it was so terrible that the heroine cringed the moment she saw the hero again… and he didn’t even recognize her! The heroine wrote off the hero romantically because (A) he was awful on their date, and (B) she’s already got a boyfriend who is nice, a doctor, and in love with her. Why did I stop? It’s S-L-O-W going, and the heroine still has a nice-guy boyfriend (who isn’t the hero) at the time I stopped reading.

How far did I get? 200 pages, which is less than halfway through this beefy 450-page book (and that’s part of the problem). Maybe I’ll go back to them another day, maybe I won’t! DNF Details: That doesn’t mean these are negative reviews, it simply means that something isn’t compelling me to keep reading at the moment. It’s mini review week! I’m clearing out my review queue of all the books I can’t seem to convince myself to finish, for one reason or another.

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