Fox's struggle to be seen as more than a one-night hookup guy, a womanizer, a player, really worked for me. He's so very dear to Hannah but clearly is quite smitten by her, despite his attempts not to be.

I don't know, I liked this but I didn't love it. Slow-burn (especially for Tessa Bailey but made sense for the story arc), and then it got hot at the end and it felt more like a whiplash than a natural progression for our two characters. Hannah being a young twenty something with a quirky love for old music and vinyl and wanting to be a movie soundtrack maker was fine, but she felt older than her age. The subplot about her crush on her director also felt a bit tacked on from the first book, and while I was glad to see it wasn't a major focus, the whole "let's make this person jealous thing" also didn't quite work for me.

A mixed bag, but I'm positive fans of the previous book will gobble this one up. I would recommend reading It Happened One Summer first to fully sink in to this story. Lots of returning characters and you are immediately plopped into Fox and Hannah's courtship, so the sparks from the first book help a lot.

Thank you to the publisher and Edelweiss for the advance copy.