This is the first book I've read by TJR and it was just what I needed at the moment. After reading several heavy or heady audiobooks recently, I wanted something a little more fluffier and light. I'm not sure it's the lightest read, but it was fluffy enough with its detailed outfit descriptions and entirely too 'good' and non-realistic people (more below).

Basic gist is that Emma marries her high school sweetheart Jesse and then he is lost over the Pacific Ocean in a helicopter accident and presumed dead; years later she receives a phone call from him while engaged to someone else. It's an engaging premise that kept me reading because what a triangle! There was a particular point that Reid focuses on about the people we were and are and will be that I really enjoyed and made me a little introspective about my life and relationships. I wanted to explore more of that, but this is not that book (which is what I wanted from the onset, I can't put that on the book 😂).

However, I'm not sure if I'm just cynical AF recently (or have been forever?), but the love triangle was a little bland? Like, the premise was dramatic, but the men were just so wonderfully loving and romantic and attractive and no one ever fights or disagrees and hey these dudes are kind of perfect with real superficial flaws? Like, in the end it didn't matter who she chose, which is FINE. You could view it as much more important for her to understand herself, and not about her choice in men...

A note also that I want to start including the names of audiobook narrators in reviews because they do so much work in bringing the book to life. Julia Whelan was a wonderful narrator, and I'll probably read another TJR audiobook because it was just really nice and straight-forward storytelling with a narrator I trust.