I enjoyed this small town second chance romance between high school sweethearts, Ali Daniels and Madison Parker. Ali is now a successful writer, but is less than successful at relationships. Her friend Charley has the solution to her dilemma, a relationship survey that must be completed by all of Ali’s exes. That way Ali can learn what has been preventing her from being successful in those relationships.

When Madison receives the survey, she is very displeased that Ali left her twenty years ago, but is now seeking her help in order to improve her future relationships. This is how they are reintroduced to each other.

This romance was a quick, easy read with limited conflict but several communications issues between Ali and Madison. A few things that I thought stood out in the book included the conversations between Ali and Madison as well as the rekindling of the humor in their daily lives. 3.5 stars

I received an ARC from Bold Strokes Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

A solid three stars. I thought the writing was great but the story is nothing new. It heavily relied on the miscommunication trope and it's becoming tiresome to read. The characters were enjoyable but nothing in this book was a surprise. It was a nice, quick read, if you need something mindless and easy.

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for an ARC of the book in exchange for this review!

I’ve previously enjoyed Carrie and Hope by Joy Argento so when I saw this book I said “why not!”. Was a bit disappointed.

This book follows Ali, a New York best selling author, who starts the book off trying to find out why all of her relationships burn out so quickly. She sends out questionnaires to all of her exs to find this out, with the temptation of her best friend she sends one out to her high school sweetheart, Madison Parker. Their relationship ended on bad terms to say the least.

See? Cute plot. The characters are lovable and the conversations were written so smoothly and naturally. It’s cool to see such normal conversations between two love interest that isn’t about sex, past relationships, sexuality, or anything dramatic or past flirting.

However, I’m giving it three stars for several reasons.

The execution was nothing special. We all know the second chance romance format by now. One returns to the home town, the other is still holding a grudge over how they left things, turns out the end of their relationship was all a big misunderstanding. Blah blah, I usually like second chance books that go like this but in this case it was repetitive. The author didn’t really bring anything new or interesting to the story. The book kicks off 20 years after Madison and Ali were together. At this point the two are Middle aged and fully moved on with their lives. I felt as though their rekindling was very unrealistic. They fell back in place way too quickly. Twenty years is too long a time for this to have been that smoothly.

So yes, 3.0 stars! The writing was really smooth and I imagine with a more exciting refreshing plot I would’ve loved this story.

Nevertheless I’ll leave this for you to decide if you wanna try it out.

I received a ARC from NetGalley and the publishers in exchange for a honest review.

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An easy, sweet and enjoyable read. One to sit down with a warm drink on a cosy evening with. Nothing groundbreaking but it's always nice to read a sweet lesbian romance and I appreciate when there's a bit of angst thrown in. Only frustrating thing is that it kind of felt like the women were portrayed as a good bit older than makes sense for the timeline. It could have gone a little deeper into the conflict between them, everything felt very easily glossed over. But if you just want something gentle, it's a good pick.

I don’t think I’ve read this author’s other works but I liked this so up I might check out the rest. The writing style was good, not as smooth as some other authors that I one-click buy without reading the blurb, but it was still an enjoyable read. Honestly, I was expecting a lot more angst. Based on the blurb alone I thought there would be a lot more conflict and I was ready for that. The main characters seemed to forgive and forget pretty quickly and I think a little more tension would have ramped up the passion in their relationship. But overall, this was an easy read that I enjoyed.