I have been loving the last series by Hart that was a little less rom-com, or at least it was more British than American. And this one takes place in England too, with even some of the characters mentioned from the series I read recently. And as I finished this one up, I can say it is probably one of my favorite of the ones I’ve read in the past year or so. I LOVED it!

We were back to the rom-com that won me over to this author’s books, with maybe still a little less bedroom times than others in the past, but it was all snarky banter that I love and the angsty feelings of the two main characters that made this book so good. More than that, the cast of characters were all so perfect for the story, and of course we got the hilarious grandmother that shows up in in Hart’s books.

I sped right through the story even as long as it is because it just flowed as a good story should. I had planned to stay up reading it the day I started because it was so good, but alas I was tired and had to put it down to sleep before work the next day. Then I took a few minutes in my office to sneak read and realized if I’d just read one more chapter before going to bed, I wouldn’t have gone to bed that night because the big drama was about to hit. And once I read that at work, I had to keep sneaking in a chapter or two when I could even before my lunch break because I had to know how it would all resolve itself.

While I was definitely thinking that Sophie was being just a bit more stubborn than necessary at the end, I also can understand how she felt. Between people being hateful to her, others not standing up for her like they should have, and feeling guilty for lying to her friend, even though her friend should totally not have dropped all that on her, it is only fair that she needed her time. But I adored Hugo, and their meet-cute, and how he was all in when he finally realized that is what she needed.

Definitely going to go down as one of my favorite Emma Hart books!

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.