Okay, I know everyone has their rights to names, even connections and reasons, but I couldn’t handle Brighton as a name. I’m sorry! Apart from that… I loved this book! Friends to lovers to exes to lovers? Beautifully done! As someone who tried that once in the start of their 20s with someone who wasn’t right, I’m not a big believer in it working in real life. But in a book? I adore a second chance romance! The starting tensions, finally learning the cause of the break up and the rekindling? Love! It! I love the increasing diversity for a Herring Blake novel to boot! If you hate or are ambivalent at all about second chance romances, this likely isn’t for you. If you love first loves ending for realistic reasons, you might just love this too! Also that Christmas movie trivia? Too hard even for this Christmas movie fan 🤣🤣🤣