To kick off February, I wanted to read a cutesy romance novel. Luckily, I had this one on my TBR stack that I had been meaning to get to for ages. This is one that I won in a giveaway from Books à la Mode, so a quick thank you to Karielle for hosting the giveaway!

I was so excited to finally read this one! Unfortunately, this was not a book for me in any way, shape, or form. I considered DNFing when I realized that it was centered around a topic I cannot stand. But silly me, I pushed on…

It’s been a while since I’ve written a negative review… so buckle up!

I’m going to start this review differently, however, and call out this one line that I really enjoyed:

It was beautiful up here. Full of pine and mountain views, and the kind of quiet that made your thoughts loud.

Unfortunately, this was the only bit I enjoyed about this book.

Beware, the negatives:
There were three key elements that affected my overall feelings about this one.

First, this book centered around the fact that one of the characters cheated on the other, which I just cannot stand reading about. It actually put me in a bit of a funk.

Second, I wanted to just scream at the characters to talk to one another. The entire plot could have been avoided if one of them was honest with the other and just said four little words.

But it was really the repetition that totally ruined the story for me. I found myself skimming quite a bit because it was incredibly repetitive to the point where I didn’t care to read it.
And yet… I still finished the book.

I wish I could say that the situation at the end that got pretty nerve-wracking for a minute there made up for it, but it didn’t. And then when I hit the Epilogue, I realized that I didn’t care for the characters in the slightest. They were both wildly selfish and very quick to make both rash and stupid decisions, and I couldn’t stand either of them.

There were also some major consistency issues with the backdated sections; like the author didn’t have a timeline in place so it all ended up a bit jumbled. For example, we were following a timeline from three years ago, but suddenly there was one instance where it said “One and a half years ago” which was actually the day after the last chapter we saw from three years ago…

I’m kicking myself for not DNFing this one…

My final thoughts:
For me, this was a one star read. However, please don’t just take my word for this one and write it off.

I would still recommend this book to people who enjoy light romance with slow pacing and a dash of both spirituality and suspense! There are loads of people that LOVED this book!