Rating: ★★★.75
Audience: Contemporary Romance
Length: 608 pages
Author: Jessa Hastings
Publisher: Dutton Books
Release Date: November 7th, 2023
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BOOK SUMMARY:

How many loves do you get in a lifetime? And are Magnolia and BJ each other’s one and only? 

It’s been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and since then it seems like everything has changed.

Magnolia has a life in New York now and BJ appears to have finally let go and moved on.

But when they both wind up back in London and are thrust together once again, they find themselves asking their age-old How many loves do you actually get in a lifetime, and, most important—are they each other’s?

I’M STILL MAD.

I think this is my least favorite of the series so far (and I have seen that book four will possibly be my favorite?? So I’m going to report back on that). For someone (BJ, I AM LOOKING AT YOU) who claims that they have worked on themselves to go around and do the same things he was from book one about made me throw my phone. Same with Magnolia honestly. There were definitely were some moments where I could feel sympathy and the plight of going through hard things but some things they bring upon themselves and I am shouting WHYYYYYYYY.

I did like the second half more. And there were a handful of memorable scenes that pulled at my emotions. I liked some of the situations happening and it makes me want to know what’s going on in book four ASAP.

And that ending????

Overall audience notes:

• Contemporary Romance
• Language: strong
• Romance: fade to black; brief open; innuendo throughout
• Violence: moderate
• Content Warnings: miscarriage, grief/loss depiction, physical violence, car accident

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