This book made me feel so many things over the course of 400 pages. It’s got spice (yes of course, it’s Emily Henry) but it also has the butterflies of falling in love, the heartbreak of love ending, the grief of losing family, the raw ache of friends growing apart, the hopefulness that everything can work out somehow.
This is a romance, and it has its happily ever after, but wow does Emily Henry make you earn that happily ever after. There were times when I was wracked with sobs reading this novel, and in the next chapter my tears were dried by the heat of my skin as I read a steamy scene.
This book is a beautiful roller coaster of emotions. It’s a novel of love… every kind of love. Romantic love, familial love, the love of found family and best friends, love lost and love rekindled, the ache that love can cause, and the warmth that love can provide.