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Business Casual
by B.K. Borison
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Honestly, if you've been reading the entire series this is the PERFECT way to wrap it up. Charlie & Nova's story has us totally set up for success:
- It opens with Stella and Luka's wedding! Yay!
- Nova is Beckett's sister, so we get a lot more time with the Porter family than I feel we even had in the first one, especially Nova's sister.
- Charlie has made appearances in all of the stories so far so he's made for a fantastic side character, but we finally get to see him fully realized and see how he lives his life when he's in New York vs when he's in Inglewild. And since he's made his appearances in so many different locations of Inglewild, we end up seeing him all over the place in this book as well.
Charlie spends most of the book in Inglewild, taking over the Farm while Stella is on her honeymoon. He's also dealing with his dad being an absolute menace while he's gone, but because he loves Lovelight and Inglewild, he tries to mainly focus on that while he's in town.
He's been helping Nova get her tattoo parlor set up and they clearly have the kind of relationship where they tend to butt heads teasing each other and whatnot. So when they finally decide to start hooking up (keeping it "business casual" in this case means casual but exclusively), neither of them super expect to catch feelings but BOYYYYYY do they. They keep their activities secret, especially because they don't particularly want Beckett (who in this book plays the role of Nova's protective brother) to find out because Charlie prefers being alive.
I'm not going to get into the details of the grand gesture at the end of the book, but part of why I love it is because