Thank you to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for providing the ARC.

Another winner from Abby Jimenez, and an absolute gut punch of a book.

Set in the same universe as Part of Your World and Yours Truly (you get to see the whole gang again!), Emma and Justin find out that they seem to be a little cursed - everyone they've dated finds their soulmate right after. When Justin posts about this on reddit, he and Emma connect and spark a bit of a flirtatious back and forth that ultimately ends with Emma in Justin's neck of the woods.

You would think that you'd were getting a hysterical romcom with a Good Luck Chuck plot, wouldn't you? What you get instead is a emotional look at how devastating life can be on relationships, even when you do everything right. Even when you know that the best thing is to let that person go lest they swallow you whole.

This book made me cry more than once. Justin is such a sweetheart - he had inherited a bad situation and tried to make the best of it. Emma was optimistic to a fault, and had never processed her trauma. It reared its ugly head often and was steadily sabotaging everything good in her life. It's hard enough to be in a relationship with someone who has that level of trauma. It's harder still to let them go so that they can fix themselves.

Wonderful story from Jimenez.