Rating: ★★
Audience: Contemporary Romance
Length: 383 pages
Author: Bekah Overbey
Publisher: Self published
Release Date: May 22nd, 2023
Image & Other Reviews on: Goodreads

BOOK SUMMARY:

Maggie West is perfectly content with her life as a single, twenty-five-year-old homebody extraordinaire. But when her best friend asks her to bring a plus-one to her wedding, Maggie reluctantly agrees to go on a series of (increasingly disastrous) blind dates. Even worse, the weeks before the wedding bring her in constant company with Jack, the wedding’s dour, disapproving best man. He has a knack for showing up at her worst moments and seeing her all too clearly—even the parts of her she’s spent years hiding.

When a panic attack at work forces Jack to take a month-long sabbatical, he drives across the country to stay with his oldest friend. As exhausted and threadbare as he feels, though, the prospect of a month off is as daunting as it is unwelcome—he has no interest in rehashing all the things that led to his breakdown. The presence of quirky, accident-prone Maggie—and her uncanny ability to shatter through his tight reserve—only further unsettles him.

But when a rogue protective instinct has Jack offering to help her, the tension between them shifts in the wake of an unsettling maybe all of their broken, hidden places are the very ones where they need each other the most.

Thank you to the author for a gifted copy.

WELL.

I truly did go into this hoping it would be a good read for me, but I just didn’t click with it. I know others who did so take this review how you would like too!

One of my personal preference issues comes from the extreme lack of dialogue. It made the inner monologues long and repetitive. Pages without the story moving forward because of a tornado of the same thoughts.

I also really have a hard time with a FMC who can’t see her worth. I know a character can totally start off that way and grow through the book. At 90% though, Maggie was still asking how could you like me, everyone leaves me, I’m not worth it, and I just needed to see some self love.

The premise was fun with the different dates and the wedding. I’m sad this didn’t work for me.

Overall audience notes:

• Contemporary Romance
• Language: none
• Romance: kisses
• Trigger/Content Warnings: brief mentions of loss of parents, mentions of anxiety

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