4.75⭐️ 3🌶️ 🎧4.75

Relationship dynamic: MF
Tropes/Microtropes/Vibes/Reps:
🏡 Small town
🏈 Sports (he’s a coach)
🧢 Brother’s best friend
🫶🏻 Childhood friends to lovers
💖 Second chance
♾️ It’s always been you 
💞 Mutual pining
🧎🏼‍♂️He falls first and hard 
🤫 Secret relationship 
🏕️ One tent

Book Publisher: Atria
Audio Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Narrators: Carly Robbins + Teddy Hamilton
Narration type: dual
Writing perspective: first person, dual POV
Standard length (pages): 431p
Standard length (time): 12:38
Listening speed: 2.5x
Listened via: LibroFM
Read via: Kindle
ARC/ALC provided by: Atria + NetGalley / Simon and Schuster + LibroFM

📖 I loved this book! ‘It’s always been you’ is one of my fav tropes and Ellie absolutely slayed here with Zac and Melody. Zac really, really epitomized the idea of pining and he hit the “he falls first” twice over. And after what Melody went through she deserves someone like Zac to absolutely worship her. I loved their friend group, and Mel’s sneaky twin. The camping trip at the start of the book is truly exceptional! I laughed so hard, I had second hand embarassment, and I also had to fan myself. This book had all the vibes!

🎧 Carly and Teddy sounded amazing as Melody and Zac. Carly has such vocal clarity while maintaining a softness to her sound. She also has such a great pitch range, with a rich medium tone that can easily drop lower for male voices and also goes higher for female dialogue.
Teddy sounded naturally cast as Zac and did a fantastic job expressing Zac’s grumpy demeanor and complex emotions surrounding his job and Melody. I highly recommend giving this a listen or diving in for an immersive experience!