Rating: ★★★
Audience: Contemporary Romance
Length: 416 pages
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: Saturday Books
Release Date: October 7th, 2025
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BOOK SUMMARY:

Is it time to renew love or start a new chapter?

Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for eleven years without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid’s sister announces her engagement to a woman she’s only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision. They’ll take a one-month break to date other people, then they’ll reunite and move toward marriage. Ingrid even has someone in mind: her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon Nowakowski, on whom she’s secretly crushed for years. But plans go awry, and when the month ends, Ingrid and Cory realize they’re not ready to resume their relationship― and Ingrid’s harmless crush on Macon has turned into something much more complicated.

Overdue is a beautiful, slow-burn romance full of lust and longing about new beginnings and finding your way.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for the gifted audiobook.

WELLLLLLL.

After thinking about this one more, I think the main problem is how it’s been marketed. The romance is not at the forefront of Overdue enough for me to feel like it was a true romance. It lent more towards a fiction story with some romance too.

The beginning was icky. Even if both Ingrid and Cory were consenting in the situation it had an aura of cheating and was not the way I wanted this book to start. All of the dating (and sleeping with) other people took up the first half of the book and I kept wondering when the actual romance was going to get going.

There were some truly genuine and sweet moments with Macon and I wanted more!! I liked their interactions and soft dynamic. I think I would read another adult romance from this author? Maybe?

Overall audience notes:

• Contemporary Romance
• Language: moderate
• Romance: multiple fade to black, 2ish open door
• Violence: mild
• Content warnings: loved ones with mental illness (on page)

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