I must firstly apologise for the amount of time it has taken me to provide a review of this book, my health was rather bad for quite some time, something that had me in hospital on numerous occasions and simply didnt leave me with the time I once had to do what I love most.

Unfortunately that does mean I have missed the archive date for many of these books, so It would feel unjust throwing any review together without being able to pay attention to each novel properly.

However, I am now back to reading as before and look forward to sharing my honest reviews as always going forward. I thank you f0r the patience and understanding throughout x

Addy has a life that she is content with, but when she finds her boyfriend Clint is cheating on her she decides to start living the life she wants. She moves across the country to San Diego and discovers her love for the ocean. The ocean also presents her with Josh, a beautiful, younger surfer who makes her feel alive for the first time. Addy’s struggle to accept herself and what she wants is endearing, exhausting and sometimes even heartbreaking. Addy’s story will take you through all of the drama.

I received this arc for an honest review.

I really liked this book. First, you have Addy finding her boyfriend of four years having sex with his secretary. So she does the most normal thing, packs up and leaves the East Coast to the West coast. San Diego is where she lands and gets a job as a nurse. One morning she is on the beach watching the surfers and notices one out of all of them who seems to just glide over the water. She is later surprised when Josh is walking towards her and then begins to have a conversation with her. She continues to be shocked as a young man as he would want to spend time with her.
Josh has people around him who he thinks is his friend, maybe some began that way but now most see him as a meal ticket. Either through his modeling or some of the endorsements, he does. One is his so-called best friend Frank and a girl that just hangs around. Frank continues to call her Mrs. Robinson once they do begin to date and it takes Jake a long time to finally wake up to what she had been telling him. There is also one moment where Josh is confused because her old boyfriend has shown up suddenly. Each has some issues to deal with and there are some tense moments when you think that this won’t work. Read this story though and see what happens. A really good book.

I have to say from the start I thought this one was going to be a 4-5 star. The start of the book was great. I loved Addy and Josh. She seemed like she had found her strength in moving out of state and taking a new job while leaving her cheating ex behind. As the book went on Addy's hang-up on the age difference just overtook the story. It was thrown in our face constantly. Also, Addy's getting mad at Josh all the time without finding out what was going on. Both put a damper on the sex scenes when they did happen. I was rooting for Josh to dump her. Did the book have potential? YES! But some rewriting needs to be done. I gave it a 3 because of this and how much I loved Josh.

Thanks to Netgalley for a arc copy for a honest review 


Alchemy Unfloding is an age gap I don't read many age gap stories this book did not disappoint. I enjoyed reading this journey that that Addy goes through along with Josh it had me rooting for them to have they happy ending. 5 star read 


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Lisa

A well written age gap romance with enough content to keep the story interesting.

I enjoyed this story for the most part, but did find that it overly focused on the age gap element of the story, like all the time. That was certainly the main theme and I admit Addy constantly running away from Josh and not trusting him did get rather wearing over time.

Josh was extremely in touch with his emotions and feelings and I did like how committed he was to staying with Addy, but his, at times childish behaviour did frustrate such as his relationships with his friends and constantly keeping Addy in the dark. Addys response always seemed to be the same though, end relationship, call best friend, drink vodka.

The underlying story about her relationship with her mother seemed to not really go anywhere, full on angst at the beginning then it petered away to nothing by the end and they are almost best friends.

Overall an interesting story that will keep the pages turning but be prepared to get frustrated at times.