3.5 stars

this was fun and cute and filled with book love.

i loved that he have an over 30 year old woman in this book that isn’t panicking about her age. sure there are conversations about all her friends getting married and starting families and expecting her to do it too but there are also conversations about her wanting to figure out if that’s even something she actually wants or just feels pressured into needing.

i also loved that evie was unapologetic about leaving her job when she is clearly being stepped in by men around her and she doesn’t just take that, and that wonderful to see.

i also loved how books are talked about in this book. it’s so nice to see it just being part of peoples lives and that evie loves her ereader and there no shaming the ebooks over physical books, even after she works in a bookshop!

i loved that we had a man that knew he wanted to get married and have kids, that believed relationships where for him and he didn’t like dating or sleeping around. sadly that’s very rarely mentioned in especially romance books!


i didn’t love how age difference and money was over dramatized in this book!
who cares if some is a handful of years older or younger then the other person? of the relationship works, what does it matter?
if both partners are adults (that should go without saying but still...) and are able to consent, what does age matter?!

so why make it this huge deal?!

also this whole money stuff was stupid and foreseeable from the get go, so not sure why it was drawn out as if it was this big mystery?


but also a bit over the top, very dramatic and stuffed too full with too many different topics, dramas and problems.
for a romance this book just tried to do a little too much, i think.
because it had so many situations some felt very rushed, or solved overly fast because there just wasn’t time in this type of book and in the main story to really focus on all those side situations.
so it felt to me, as of the author just tried to stuff all her ideas of this small village life into one book -controlling relatives of all kinds, abuse, racism, family fights over generations, same gender relationships, mixed race relationships and overall prejudice and the stupidity of people that should just get over themselves about things that have nothing at all to do with them!

and all those things weren’t necessarily done badly, but it was just a lot to fit into the book beside the main romance story and the characters problems of that main plot.


this sounds as if the book was bad.
it wasn’t.
it was actually really fun and i loved that it had all those moments of empowering people to find their strength to start doing what the way love or go where they want t go. that’s so nice to see/read

and the romance was cute too.

so if you want something fun and unrealistic?
give this a try