Rating: ★★★★
Audience: Contemporary Romance
Length: 352 pages
Author: Clare Gilmore
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Release Date: October 29th, 2024
Image & Other Reviews on: Goodreads
BOOK SUMMARY:
A hilarious and heartfelt rom-com about having it all, slowing down to see the big picture, and finding out that the person you least expect could be your perfect fit.
Josephine Davis has spent her entire twenties building Revenant: a fashion brand headquartered in downtown Austin. When her biggest investor orders Josie to hire a consultant, the last person she expects to be working with is Will Grant – the twin brother of Josie’s ex best friend.
Sure, Will and Josie may have shared one mistake of a kiss during senior spring break nine years ago, but they’ve never been friends. She remembers him as moody; he always thought of her as shallow. Romance isn’t on the table for either of them until they blink, and realize there’s a reason they can’t stay away from each other.
But there’s Will’s sister to consider – whom Josie hasn’t spoken with since their falling out – not to mention, Will and Josie live seventeen hundred miles apart. And it’s not like she has time for a boyfriend anyway when she’s an overworked CEO. As Josie’s burnout looms while she falls deeper and harder for Will, she contends with the fact that eventually, she’ll have to make a choice: stay alone to be productive, or slow down to be in love.
GREW ON ME.
I am not a corporate girlie so I feel like the beginning was a little lost on me and I wasn’t quite clicking with everything happening. Gratefully this got better over the course of the book and I found myself truly enjoying the story. I think if you come into this with a little more of a fiction lens than romance you’ll like it too. DON’T WORRY, there is romance, but there’s a really big focus on Josie and herself as she grows throughout the book.
I loved that Josie was hardworking and deliberate about who she was and what goals she had AND at the same time could recognize that maybe some of her decisions were creating a lifestyle that was racing towards burnout. That fine balance between work vs. life is hard sometimes and this explored it well.
The romance is very low angst, it’s a sweet story of two old friends running into each other again (literally) and how all of those previous memories resurfaced. I loved how supportive Will was and the way they learned to lean on each other.
Overall audience notes:
- Contemporary Romance
- Language: moderate
- Romance: vague open door
- Violence: low
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