Thank you to Nerd Fam and the author for a gifted copy.

HERE WE GO.

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I went in with best intentions on this one. I was excited to try a new author and the initial premise was good. Consider me intrigued.

And while plenty of the book is fine. I had one glaring issue. The FMC, Anna. Based off of her past and situation I could understand why she ran away the first time…and maybe the second time too. I’ll give you that one. But then, that became the whole plot. Anytime that Gabe wanted to have a good conversation, maybe a hard one too, or was telling her something she absolutely needed to hear, Anna would run. And I’m talking, take a plane, I’ll see you in a few years run and it was exhausting.

The timeline went from the “past” for half the book and then jumped three years every chapter in the second half. The whiplash created by this made the romance feel lack luster. I appreciated that there was no romantic entanglement when they first met, but I would have loved more true swoony moments to actually feel some chemistry between them.

All of the supposed reveals and turns are nothing you weren’t expecting from the beginning. My will to keep going felt dashed and I kept waiting for this book to wrap things up.

Overall audience notes:
- Contemporary Romance
- Language: mild
- Romance: fade to black
- Violence: low
- Content Warnings: child abandonment, domestic violence (side plot/character), drug use/addiction