First, I'd like to say that it's a hard sell on this being a 'traditional' romance for me. Like, yes there is an HEA or at least an HFN but the journey was not about their current love story but rather finding out what went wrong in the past. And then the way it all ended was just...even as big of a romantic as I have a tendency to be was hard to swallow or be happy with.

The only really likeable characters were Gregory and Joni. Ezra took too long to grow a backbone with Frankie and Mimi and neither one of those women were ones I enjoyed reading about. Frankie spent too much of her life blaming others for what she didn't like about her life and had no accountability. That is one of the reasons that Gregory was likeable because he was the only one who would regularly call her on it and did throughout the events of the novel.

I am not happy that I didn't enjoy this book more than I did but I have to be honest with myself. It was a solid three stars for the most part. But then there was a development at 80% that just pissed me off (no spoiler) but suffice to say it's a plot device that is used in romances that most people get enraged about and I don't really like the double standards and it was thrown in totally for a 'shock' value IMO. Not a fan.