By Jessica Joyce
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Audiobook rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧
Pub Date 7/16/2024
Blurb
Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance.
Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago.
With the wedding of their mutual best friend, Adam, looming, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man, Georgia’s never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy—and still very present—feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool, calm, and compartmentalized.
What’s not on her list? Eli arriving from New York with a new rule-breaking attitude or the all-inclusive venue burning to the ground, leaving the bride and groom in dire straits. Nor does she anticipate Adam asking her and Eli to help him make a miracle happen. Together.
As Georgia and Eli rush up to Napa Valley to pull off the perfect wedding, their old chemistry comes back in technicolor. Somewhere between cake tastings gone wrong, disastrous DJ auditions, and Eli’s heated attention, Georgia starts recognizing the man she fell in love with before. And if she lets herself break her rules, she might find what they’re building isn’t the something old that ruined them—it’s a chance at something new.
Category: Contemporary Romance
Read if you Like:
🍇 Second chance
🍇 Forced proximity
🍇 Wedding setting
🍇 One bed
🍇 Friends with benefits
My Thoughts:
I am a huge fan of You, with a View so I've been really excited for this one! Luckily it didn't disappoint! Georgia and Eli are one of those couples you'll be immediately invested in. Jessica Joyce does a beautiful job writing about the love between them and making you want to root for them. Reading about their journey is heartwarming and occasionally heart-wrenching. Fans of the emotional romance will eat this one up!
I loved seeing Eli confront his anxiety and realize what patterns he needed to break. I would have loved to get some of his POV so we could understand what was going on in his head and know more about the cause of those struggles. Despite not having his POV I did love the look we got into his feelings for Georgia and their history together.
If you like second chance or an emotional romance this one is for you! I think fans of Happy Place by Emily Henry will like this one as well as fans of Ever After Always by Chloe Liese.
I listened to the audio version of this title and love it! Kyla Garcia did the narration. Romance readers may recognize her from Yours Truly. It is single narrator but also single POV.
Thanks to PRH audio for providing me with a gifted audiobook. All opinions are my own.
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