I'm just as surprised as anyone to be giving this five stars.

It really is like if Alex and Poppy met as adults while competing to write Evelyn Hugo's memoir. That's the book. But set it in Georgia because it needs to be even more catered to me.

(She did a great job capturing Georgia and the golden isles, but I will say the two main issues were her use of directions "up" and "down" and

implying Atlanta is a viable middle-ground in the end

. Also saying her environmental mother's front door remained open year round. Never in Georgia and NEVER NEVER for an environmentalist.)

I cried in a crowded subway car on my way home from work tonight as if I was in my luteal phase and I even checked and I AM NOT! So you know it hit.

I totally understand how people can not jive with this book. (It's not one I'll die on a hill defending.) But I thought it was a thoughtful, fun Emily Henry novel filled with heart.  The romance was not the center and it was a little cheesy and fast, but men written by Emily Henry are just better than fiction.

I thought the pacing of the romance and the research story moved swiftly which could have been make or break.

it was going to be 4 stars until the very end and I couldn't hold back.