I debated a lot about my rating for Love on Moonlight Lake. I really enjoyed the plot and found the premise convincing. Two best friends who have been in love with each other forever, suspect how the other feels, but neither has made a move for reasons? Hell yes I buy that. I also liked that we were able to just dive right in and the connection and chemistry was obvious from the jump, so there wasn’t a lot of time spent on building that up in this novella (novel? I’m never sure what the cutoff is). I loved both Gianna and Raven (oh, did I empathize with Raven’s overthinking), and Gianna’s Nan was a hoot.

That said, I felt that it was a bit jumpy at times and there were transitions that weren’t as smooth. I just wanted it to be a bit cleaner—not in a spice way, because I love spice and that was pretty good here, it just seemed messy sometimes. And, although I don’t ding ARCs for punctuation and grammatical errors because I know I may not be reading the final version, this one had quite a few issues and I found it pretty distracting.

I received a free ARC from the author, but my review is unbiased and left voluntarily.