I wanted to like this one. And parts of it I really did like. I don't think I've read a book set in Africa before, so the change of scenery and different POVs were totally welcome. But I think there was just far too little relationship development.

We got to know the hero and heroine separately. They interacted a dozen times in what, to me, was pretty uneventful/mundane things. And then the hero thinks to himself: I'm in love with her! I was flatly unconvinced.

Also I think what makes it more complicated for me is that I'm a mom to an almost 18 mo old. The hero has a newborn/very young son, and is not with the baby's mother, but they live together and moved to this small town together. I would be furious if my co-parent brought the person who they were now dating around my baby without telling me. Because it's DIFFERENT, when they "meet" or interact in that capacity. Also he never even told his co-parent that he was interested in dating, or going to be dating, or actively dating. I couldn't help but completely side with her. And it soured me on the book for sure.