oh gosh there was so much I loved about this one 🥹 we have to stan healthy relationships and knowing how to love yourself before you’re ready to love others!!!

emma and maddy quickly became my favorite dynamic duo of the abby jimenez universe - and I was so here for their friendship where they know how to simply exist with one another as easy as breathing. maddy deserves a medal (and a spin off book, especially after that epilogue 👀) 

justin is THE book boyfriend blueprint - he is everything a woman could possibly see in a man with his only flaw being too caring?? putting so much energy into others that he forgets about himself?? which leads me back to how he and emma were perfect growing partners for each other and how their relationship taught one another how to self love and truly love someone else again 🥹🥹🥹

for as drawn out and lovely the majority of the plot was, the ending seemed rushed and scattered, even though it eventually came full circle… I loved the tie ins with alexis, daniel, briana, and jacob - and the found family ending was wonderful. but surprisingly, the third act breakup wasn’t the part that annoyed me, it was the reconciliation. emma’s reasoning for pulling away MADE SENSE, I was here for it, and then after just six months, she’s ready to be with justin again and is miraculously healed? girl I wish it only took six months for me to get over trauma 😮‍💨

anyway this was such a wonderful gushy story & I’m firmly in the abby jimenez can do no wrong camp!! thank you to netgalley and forever pub for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!

rating: 4.5 stars
wine pairing: niagara on the lake cabernet franc