I loved the first book in this series about the Spark sisters, When Sparks Fly. And so I’ve been eagerly awaiting this second book in the series. And as much as I loved the first cover, I think this one is even better! The story itself was just as good as the first one as well, but different. While both had truly darkest night moments at the end, this one wasn’t as devastating to me as the first one. Because even though I understood London’s reasons for being upset, and knew she was right, I also knew that she could overcome it much easier with some reasonable things done.

The author also brought in some characters from her Shacking Up series, which I have not finished all of those yet. The sister dynamic in this was great because even with how they were there for each other, there was definitely realistic sister stubbornness as well as letting sister get away with things when one thought it wasn’t worth pushing anymore, but then also letting those feelings fester until they blew up.

In a way this was a bit of a Cinderella story, not exactly, but a little bit, so it was fun when that was even mentioned by the characters. I also loved the idea of all the stars that London made, and her Etsy store, all of that was so neat. Now I did have one thing that I wasn’t sure about, the whole bit about there being seasons of the tv show Survivor that were like model competitions. I mean I guess there was one or two seasons where it seemed all the “pretty people” were being kept. But that has changed. And even those pretty people are never still that pretty by the end of that show. They’re all pretty much starving almost down to skin and bones, maybe what they called the heroin-chic models?

I digress, this was a great book, and I loved it!

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.