I’ve read several books by this author and I always always enjoy them. They’re not life changing epic love stories but I realized that sometimes you need less intensity and more of a warm beautiful feel good read and she’s perfect at this. This book reminded me of a Nora Ephron movie, it’s set Detroit and it’s really a part of the story. You feel right there with the characters, all of the places mentioned are real. It’s definitely one of the reasons I found this book so charming!
Emme and Nate had this great connection you feel right from the start. They’ve been sort of friends for three years when the story begins and I really liked the fact that their friendship was sort of recent. It has many advantages for us readers : they care for each other when they get together but they still have things to learn about the other so we sort of get to see their relationship develop, their friendship is kind of unlikely because they’re so different, Emme is bubbly, she’s romantic and fundamentally enthusiastic while Nate is trying very hard at this alpha male thing, he doesn’t believe in relationship, and wants to preserve his bachelor lifestyle at all cost. Despite those fundamental differences they have fun together, they really like each other but there’s still this delicious banter we so enjoy from our beloved romance novel couples. When they get together we don’t have to deal with the usual friends to lover angst, they don’t spend the entire book feeling bad about it or fearing that it might end their lifelong friendship because even though they’re really good friends it’s nothing sacred for them .
I liked that because the story we get instead is much more interesting : Nate has to deal with the changes in his life since he found out that he’s a father, his relationship with Emme is a big deal but because of this life changing matter he kind of doesn’t see it coming and it’s the same for Emme she’s helping him so she gets to work on herself and live in the moment instead wondering about the future, marriage and kids and all of the things that ruined her previous relationships.
This is the reason this book is perfect, the relationship just work, the romance is delicious with just the right amount of angst. The pace and the structure are perfect, I had to DNF a pretty good book because of the dreadful structure so it felt great to read a book with a perfectly fleshed out story.
So ok this book might not have dragons and angst lava but it still deserves 5 Only you Always you stars!
5 stars
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