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Could Be Something Good by Fiona West
3.0

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I thought Could Be Something Good was a cute and easy read. It is a Romance between a 31year old midwife and a twenty-something med student who meet because they work in the same small town hospital. The book is very much focused on the love story but dives into some other interesting themes: dyslexia, early death of a parent, age gap (in which the woman is the older party), difficult relationships between parents and their (grown up) children and very subtly even autism (the hero's brother, who will be the hero of the second novel in this series! GO representation!).

The reason for my own three star rating is that while I thought it was a cute and lovely read, there were some singular sentences that made me frown a little in disagreement. I also sadly didn't find a character I could truly relate to, which made the whole experience fall a little flat to me.

I am still looking forward to the second book in this series!

I would definitely recommend to anyone who: Likes hospital shows/themes/books, work romances, age gaps, PINING (I loved the pining), talk of birth (there's lots of talk of lots of births which is to be expected with the heroine being a midwife and all) and who just yearns for a quick and positive and cute read!