The cover for Twice in a Blue Moon could very well be one of my favorites of Christina Lauren’s. The book, however, is a slightly different story.

Let me preface this by saying that I didn’t dislike the book. I was just left feeling very underwhelmed. I really love Christina Lauren – they’re on the list of authors that I auto-buy and they’ve written some of my favorites. I’ve always been able to count on them to write really great books.

To be fair, life has been busy, and it took me a month to read this book and I think that could have really contributed to my enjoyment of the story. I think I would have been a lot more emotionally invested if I’d been able to read it quicker so that I stayed a bit more connected. The argument could also be made that if I were really drawn in by it, that I would have had a difficult time putting it down, but who’s to say.

I just didn’t fall in love with the characters the way that I expected to. For the first half, I was pretty invested. I liked the characters, I mostly felt their connection and spark (though it could have been better), but then there’s a big leap in time and that’s sort of where it started to lose me.

Tate’s character was fairly likeable, though I felt like she was pretty dense. Basically, one of the main plot points that I think was supposed to be some big reveal by the way it was drawn out was so glaringly obvious the entire time to me. So, by the time that she finally figured it out, I just felt like she was kind of dumb for not figuring it out sooner. It wasn’t exactly rocket science. And again, it took me an entire month to read the book, so it’s not even like I was always super familiar with details.

Sam was also just fairly likeable. He made questionable choices, and just never really won me over in the end. Overall, all of the characters in this story are just kind of lackluster and left something to be desired. There were even characters that ranged from mildly to extremely unlikeable that never got their “due”, so to speak. It felt sort of like a letdown. Why have these just truly terrible characters be nasty the whole time for nothing?

All of that to say that this book was just okay. I think I’m even more disappointed simply for the fact that my hopes were so high. If you’ve never read Christina Lauren before, I highly recommend starting somewhere else. The Wild Seasons series is fantastic. And if you are a fan of theirs, then maybe just manage your expectations a little before diving into this one.

Because of her famous actor father, Tate Jones has been sheltered her whole life. Ever since her parents split when she was young, Tate’s mom has gone above and beyond to keep Tate out of the spotlight. When her mom surprises her with a trip to Europe with her grandmother, Tate is over the moon excited. She isn’t expecting to meet anyone for the few weeks she’s abroad, so when Sam Brandis and his grandfather show up at Tate’s hotel, she can barely process the rush of feelings she has for him. The two hit it off quickly, and Tate takes a chance and reveals who she is. Sam is nothing but accepting and caring, so when he outs her to a media outlet just a few days later, Tate is destroyed. Not only is she completely unprepared to be in the public eye again, she is positively heartbroken at Sam’s betrayal.

Flash forward fourteen years, and Tate is now a famous actress in her own right. She’s set to start shooting one of the most important films of her career, when, who of all people is on set but, Sam, now a screen writer. Tate is determined to ignore him and conceal her conflicted feelings, but Sam seems desperate to tell her his side of the story. Tate has to give the best performance of her life, all while trying to decide if she can trust Sam again.

I love a good Christina Lauren book. These women really know how to write fun and slightly steamy modern romance novels. And, for the most party, I really enjoy their stories. Twice in a Blue Moon is a solid read. Not my favorite from them, but definitely better than their last book, The Unhoneymooners. I don’t love books about actors, but this one was surprisingly heartfelt. I thought the relationship between Tate and Sam was developed nicely. The story made sense and flowed well. Tate’s father was a real scumbag, and it was fun to hate him so much.

My biggest complaint about the book is that it was hard for me to believe that Tate could EVER get over what Sam did to her. He betrays her on the deepest level, and, for me, that’s not something you can move past, no matter what the motivation. So even though this book was quick and entertaining, it didn’t totally ring true, and I had trouble fully connecting. Still worth reading, though.

I always love Christina Lauren. They have "voice" in their stories that attracts them to you. Twice in a Blue Moon has the same feeling, but I didn't think we got to dive as deeply into the characters as we normally would in a CL book. It was still entertaining and I can't wait for their next one

I chose TWICE IN A BLUE MOON quite easily for the #ReadForGrace event I organized on 10/14. I wanted to read something from her TBR and a book by one of her favorite author duos. I'm really glad I did, but it makes me sad to think of the discussions I would have liked to have with her on this story when we both finished instead.

I really enjoyed this! I think early reviews have been a bit mediocre so I didn't have the highest hopes. I also should probably mentioned that this is only my second book by Christina Lauren - the first being THE UNHONEYMOONERS - so I don't have much to compare it to. I know that many people who have read more of their backlist have been disappointed by the lighter books (meaning less steamy) lately, but that's all I've known... and I've enjoyed them both! Their earlier series (like the Bastard books) aren't necessarily up my alley so I think I'll continue with these new books as they come out instead of diving TOO far into the backlist. Maybe some like JOSH & HAZEL or other recent ones.

Anyways, I do think this book focused a bit too much on the couple themselves without fleshing out AS much when it comes to side characters. Quite insular. Family dynamics were important to the plot but the story essentially takes place over two chunks of time and not much else is developed, if that makes sense. Overall, enjoyed the romance, settings, and Hollywood-orientation. I'm a sucker for those books! I don't want to say much about that piece though, as the summary for the book primarily focuses on the early chapters instead of the other 3/4 of the story.

I love a good heartache! Elizabeth @ Carolina Chic's Read

Sam and Tate's Journey into love is not an easy one. It's filled so much wonder, intrigue and heartache. Tate takes a chance at trusting this man with her desires, heart and body for the first time in her life, then experiences the crushing heartache of betrayal from him. When she see's him more than ten years later she is rocked to her core. You can feel that with one look that he still wants her, but she does not know if she can trust him. She feels pulled to him thru the entire story, has so many conflicting emotions. Will hearing his side of the story change everything for her? Her heart still belongs to this man.

I loved that we felt the same conflicting feelings as the characters. This was an amazing story.

3.5

Tate Jones meets Sam Brandis when she's eighteen while on a trip to London with her grandmother. Tate and Sam immediately click. I'm talking first love kind of clicking. Tate finds herself opening up to Sam in ways she's never opened up to anyone else. Tate confides to Sam that she's the daughter of screen idol Ian Butler who suddenly disappeared from the public eye after her parent's tumultuous divorce. Sam is one of the only people (minus her grandmother, mother, and best friend) that Tate has felt comfortable enough to reveal this part of her life, a part that her grandmother and mother have always encouraged her to keep secret. So when Sam betrays her and leaks her identity to the press, the consequences are far reaching.

Fourteen years later, after being thrust into the spotlight, Tate is a TV and screen star much like her father, and the role of a lifetime has just landed in her lap. A role that will push the limits of her acting ability and move her past her father's sphere of influence. The problem: the script writer is none other than Sam Brandis. Being confronted with the person who, literally, changed her life, all the conflicted feelings she's had over the years about Sam and what happened between them comes to the surface. Will Tate be able to reconcile the love she felt for Sam before she was betrayed? Or will that betrayal hold over everything they could have together?

It had to happen at some point. With a string of reliably funny, sweet, romantic, and sometimes heartbreaking novels, Christina Lauren has finally released one that didn't work so well for me. Maybe that's not completely accurate, but Twice in a Blue Moon definitely gave me pause before writing this review. I got to the end, and thinking about everything that preceded it, I took time to, hopefully, formulate a review that will stand for a read that, to me, was full of really interesting ideas about family and forgiveness, opportunity and betrayal, but I felt like it fell just short of really committing to any of them.

I mean it's a pretty heavily loaded story. I think possibly more pages would have given more time to flesh out a few of the story threads.

I'm really a sucker for the second-chance romance trope. It's this idea that initially drew me to the story honestly. I appreciated the fact that Christina Lauren took a good amount of time to build up the "Then" portion of the story as it's so important to how things have happened in the "Now". I could feel the connection between young Sam and young Tate. The pangs of first love the tentativeness in every interaction. The sting of the betrayal wasn't as cleanly felt as much of the fallout takes place in the intervening time between the Then and Now and through the lens of older Tate do we truly see the consequences of Sam selling her out to the press.

The story is told only in Tate's point of view so it was readily apparent that she wasn't getting the full story as to why Sam would do something so detrimental to her. Obviously there's more to the story than meets the eye as I think any reader looking at things from the outside will be able to quickly discern.

What really got me for the main idea of the book is how one moment - in this case one tip to the press - can change someone's life irrevocably forever. Tate always secretly harbored thoughts of becoming an actress but we don't know if it would have come to fruition had she not been thrust into the public eye. She was set to start college soon after her return from London, but all of that was derailed the morning the press found out she is Ian Butler's "long lost" daughter. There's also the fact that, despite becoming a star, Tate's personal life has been at a standstill for all these years. With such a huge betrayal in her past, and at such an impressionable time in her life, she finds it difficult to trust. It's maybe this idea of trust that left me unsatisfied in the way the story went forward. I felt like it was almost too quick that Tate was pulled back into Sam's orbit once they reconnected on set. Too quick that the feelings they left behind resurfaced, but I didn't feel like the trust was earned back. And yes, I feel like in this circumstance trust needed to be earned back on Sam's part.

I think what truly left this bad taste in my mouth - so to speak - was the idea that Tate has never been given the opportunity to speak her truth. Except when she spoke it to Sam but look how that turned out. No, Tate has always been required to go along with a narrative. Whether it's playing a role on TV or in movies to the still tense relationship with her father that she must present to the world as close and loving. She's hindered by needing to keep things looking happy and shiny for the public - no scandals here please - in order to be marketable and, I supposed, bankable to the fans. I wanted to see Tate take her own life into her own hands, but I don't think it's something she'll ever be able to do at least out in the open. But that brings up the question of: is Tate's personal life really anyone's business?

The book provides this interesting quandry, but like I said I didn't feel like it really fleshed it out well enough. This is a read that I may come back to at some point because maybe I missed something this first time around, or maybe circumstances in my life influenced how I read and interpreted the story. I think Twice in a Blue Moon is one of the more thought-provoking reads that Christina Lauren has given readers recently and while I like the more somber tone, I just wanted a little something more from the story itself.

I still look forward to whatever Christina Lauren has up their sleeves next. Despite my on-the-fence thoughts in regards to this book, they've always been authors that I can count on to deliver, and if this time they deliver something that sticks with me days after finishing, that has me questioning my feelings about the book, I think they've done their job fantastically.

I'll be honest, whereas I was highly anticipating Christina Lauren's previous releases like The Unhoneymooners and Josh & Hazel, my excitement for this one was pretty low. Turns out, my hesitation had no grounds because I actually thought this was beautiful, soft, and had a lot of heart.

I like that this book was told in a then-and-now format, but those sections are entirely separate rather than frequently jumping back and forth. It was almost like two stories in one where you got to see their relationship develop at each stage in their life, both written exceptionally well. I did prefer the first half of the novel just because it had a Just One Day vibe (and also I'm not a huge fan of books about the film industry, so the second half lost me a little). But the two halves flowed seamlessly and played off of one another.

Even so, I feel like this book had an opportunity to be more than a second chance romance. The scope of it is HUGE with so many littler side plots, and I could see this book being so much more substantial if the authors hadn't only focused on the scenes where the two main characters were on page together. I know the authors intended to write this as a romance so I shouldn't be judging it as a different genre, but this book's conflict felt so surface level and basic compared to where I feel like this story could have gone in exploring character relationships deeper than just the main character and the love interest. It doesn't help that this book ended abruptly as soon as the relationship was sorted out and I wish we could have had some closure with the book's characters/plot lines other than the main relationship.

This book is different from other Christina Lauren books in a way that I can't pinpoint, and in a way I also can't say if I like better or worse. It was enjoyable to read and CL's writing continues to evolve and grow more and more beautiful, but I didn't feel super attached to the main character. It's difficult for me to sum up this review in only a few paragraphs because I have a lot of little things to say about it. It was sweet, just not my favorite of theirs.

Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren is a fun romance that takes place on a movie set.

Tate Jones is a famous actress who has the boost of a family acting legacy. Her parents were actors, and she always knew she wanted star in movies.

As a child, Tate was sequestered away with her mother and grandmother, out of the lime light. No one knew who she was, and she had zero contact with her Hollywood father.

While accompanying her grandmother on a trip abroad as a teenager, Tate meets Sam Brandis. Her first. Her first love, and her first heartbreak. They fell in love hard and fast, and Tate trusted Sam with all of her secrets. But her trust was misplaced.

Tate’s teenage heartbreak shapes much of her adult life. She has a few friends, but love isn’t a shirt she’s been able to try on, and trust isn’t something she does easily.

As a famous actress, the last place Tate was expecting to run into Sam again was the set of her newest film. Can Sam mend the mistakes of his past? Will Tate give him another chance? Or will their past flame light up like the barn on the very set they’re working on?

Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren was a very cute read! While it doesn’t compare to some of Christina Lauren’s past books, it was still an entertaining quick read that’s worthy of your bookshelf.

I don’t tend to watch a lot of movies or glamorize the lives of actors, but I thought the book’s story was very sweet. I think the book portrayed the busyness and hustle of a big movie set well, though I appreciated the fact that the characters were still very down to earth and relatable.

I absolutely loved Sam in Twice in a Blue Moon. Yes, he made some big mistakes, but he’s so nice and noble that it’s hard not to love him. Not to mention, the screenplay he wrote and who he based it on is downright swoon-worthy. What a nice guy!

The ending was a little cliche but still wrapped up the book nicely. As with most romance books, it had a happy ending (and I’m not complaining!)

If you need a little romance in your life, check out Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing the Kindle version of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I am kind of on the fence on this one…I didn’t connect and enjoy the characters as much as I normally do. Too many things just needed to be developed more and Tate was too blind and oblivious about too much. I really wanted to like this one more, and I could see many people really enjoying it, but for me it was just “OK”. I will still pick up the next book from this duo, because I have really liked most of the books from Christina Lauren. I just didn’t get the “feels” that I normally do after reading a book of this type. 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4.

Thank you so much Gallery Books for the eARC of Twice in a Blue Moon!
This was my first book by the Christina Lauren duo, but it definitely won’t be my last! I really enjoyed the writing and the cast of characters. The book is full of strong women (and men) who support each other and want the best for each other.
When Tate takes a graduation trip with her Nana, she doesn’t expect to find love, just adventure. When, after becoming close to Sam, he disappears, Tate doesn’t know how to reconcile her feelings of love and loss. The next time we see Tate she is a successful actress, but when she sees Sam again she starts to question everything. I appreciated seeing Tate’s struggle between her professional success and personal history — I think that added an important dimension to the story.
This was a sweet book that deals with a lot of modern struggles, and I really enjoyed it!

This is a rather harmless and quite entertaining romance with a juicy Hollywood center. I find it fascinating to have the facade of the glitz and glam peeled away. Makes me glad I live life well away from the threat of paparazzi. Tate's life does not interest me one bit. Her sweet reunion with Sam is a bit rocky and a bit too steamy for my tastes, but I think Christina Lauren fans will enjoy this one.

Thank you to Gallery and NetGalley for a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

For those that have a hard time enjoying young love...See it in action. Twice In A Blue Moon is a beautiful whirlwind romance filled with young love and first heartbreak. I was both smitten and wary. It seems my radar doesn't work right because I was smitten from the get go and wary too late in the game. However, the fool me once rule applies...I was not fooled the second time!

Christina Lauren gave us a cast to fall for, friends to cherish, hunks to salivate over, and acontemptuous, villainous fiend...or so we thought.

Twice In A Blue Moon is a Hollywood second chance romance with plenty of issues to keep readers feeling secure in their own lives. Or at least make them feel at home!

It will be easy to see the fan favorites in the cast but there are a few crew members I'd like to take home with me. Ride or die people are hars to come by. Oh and can I keep Marco? I would give him a good home!

I read The Unhoneymooners this past summer--my first Christina Lauren--and loved it. When I saw that they were coming out with a new title, I was so excited, and when I saw the beautiful cover, even more so. Unfortunately, Twice in a Blue Moon didn’t quite hit the mark for me. It didn’t have the charm/romance/humour that I loved so much in The Unhoneymooners and was hoping for more of.

Sam and Tate fell in love over the course of two weeks, but then Sam betrayed Tate’s trust and disappeared. Fourteen years later, they meet again.

The main reason I didn’t buy into this love story was that I felt Sam and Tate’s initial romance was too quick. If that initial romance was more believable, I might have been more invested in them and might have looked past everything else, but alas.

I think we were meant to root for Sam and Tate because they were connected by the secrets they shared with each other. Whilst their secrets could have garnered some sympathy from me, I didn’t know enough about the characters to understand why those secrets were such a big deal, so instead of garnering my sympathy, the secrets felt generic and melodramatic. The quickness and ease with which they spilled their secrets only drove that feeling home.

And then Sam’s unexplained betrayal, which sets the rest of the story in motion. First of all, I didn’t feel that Sam was anything special. To be fair, I start off skeptical of most pretty boys (they’re unnerving… Like, what evils are you hiding in that perfect head of yours??). His particular brand of charisma made him come off as a player, at least to me. He could drown you in sickly sweet compliments, but he was as bland as could be. So when he exposed Tate’s secret, I wasn’t inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, as I didn’t have any real insight to his intentions and where he might have been coming from.

From a moral standpoint, what he did was wrong. Continuing on with the story, I was almost in suspense, curious to understand his reasons by the end of the book, hoping--anticipating, even--that he’d redeem himself. But alas, his reasons weren’t enough for me. C’mon, he snitched like 6ix9ine; no one asked, dude!!

no one:
sam: tate is the long-lost daughter of movie star ian butler

When Sam and Tate were reunited, at one point, Tate mused, “What kind of doormat am I? We’re weeks into this shoot, in the middle of nowhere, and he tells me he’s sorry and he’s jealous and that’s it? Fourteen years and I’m ready to pick back up where we left off?”

THAT. EXACTLY THAT. WHY TATE, WHY. ARE YOU A DOORMAT?? That excerpt pretty much summarises [most of] my feelings about this story. Straight from Tate herself!!

You know who would back me up on this? Charlie, Tate’s best friend. She’s a real one. Anyone that does her friend wrong has done her wrong. She won’t let you forget it. She won’t be wooed by your empty words or sexy muscles. Charlie’s my favourite.

Another favourite was Nick, Tate’s costar (fourteen years later, Tate’s an up-and-coming actress). He had that heart-fluttering charisma and wholesome, playful energy I was hoping to get out of the main love interest. I wish that there was a love triangle between Tate, Nick, and Sam, just so that I could have gotten more of Nick and less of Tate pining over Sam.

Although I wasn’t particularly charmed by this romance, it was easy to read. Maybe if you don’t hold grudges as badly as I do, you could potentially enjoy this one. If you’re stuck in the countryside and don’t have anything to do, this isn’t the worst way to pass your time. If you’re happy with a fling with a pretty face, this book will do you just fine. But I’m a pessimistic romantic (a winning combo, I know).

In general, I’d say that you don’t need to make Twice in a Blue Moon a priority to read if you have other books on your TBR. But I haven’t given up on Christina Lauren! I keep hearing about Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating and Love and Other Words, so those will probably be my next Christina Lauren reads.

Tate was raised in a remote small town in northern California. Her beloved hardworking Nana Judith takes her on a graduation trip to explore London before college begins. Having never been very far from home, their two-week adventure is precisely scheduled to be filled with non-stop shows, museums and lunch at Harrods. The ladies never expected to meet the charming Luther and his handsome grandson Sam on their very first day. Sam and Tate immediately connect and manage to escape the over protective clutches of Judith to experience their very first young love. Tate feels things she has never experienced before. She shares her most precious secret - she is the missing daughter of the worlds' most famous film star. When this information is leaked to the media her life is turned completely upside down and an entire destiny is changed forever. Fourteen years later on the set of her break out film co-starring her father, Sam and Tate meet again. Realizing their chemistry is as passionate as ever, these star crossed lovers must decide if it is possible to find trust and love again. Slightly different from their long list of bestsellers, Twice in a Blue Moon is another delicious romance from the never disappointing duo Christina Lauren.

I’m on the 3.5 mixed feelings fence. There’s a lot that I liked in here but I just felt so bad for Tate. That girl was done dirty...twice! Betrayed to the core and I really wasn’t having it from Sam or her dad. I get and understand why by Sam but it still doesn’t make it right. Her father, trash. There’s no epilogue but for reals, I hope she doesn’t speak to him again. Like I said, there’s no epilogue so the ending did feel a wee bit rushed.

4.5 Second-chance Stars!

This book needs to be a movie. I see it as a movie for sure. PassionFlix here it comes!

Young love borne during a romantic trip abroad takes a turn for the worse when our heroine, Tate, is betrayed in the worst way by our hero, Sam. No explanation. Just heartbreak with no explanation. Fast forward over a decade later, they meet again. A lot has changed. They’ve grown up. But deep seated feelings continue to shoulder beneath the surface. But can she forgive him the betrayal?

Great plot development, a second chance romance with a cast of characters that’ll keep you turning the pages. Great flow, I seriously hope to see this hit the big screen.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, for this free review copy.


After the joy and fun that is "The Unhoneymooners," I was psyched to be allowed a chance to read this book. From the blurb, I was expecting a short intro backstory for Tate and Sam before what would no doubt be the Big Betrayal and then we'd be off to the modern day part of the story. Nope. We get 90 pages (on my ereader) of a set up. From the start, it was a chore to read. Things are told only from Tate's POV and it's clear that she's been raised by her mother and grandmother being told what to do and basically controlled.


Then she and Nana have a trip to London that never felt quite realistic and she meets Sam and he kind of starts to tell her what to do. I was reading and waiting (impatiently) for the betrayal but the backstory just kept slowly coming along. And I was starting to get seriously bored. I was also not connecting with any of the characters and increasingly skeptical about the set up for the book. Tate is the daughter of a famous father, thinking about an acting career, and we're supposed to believe that she's never gone online and read anything about the breakup of her parent's marriage? Pre-internet this might have been something I could swallow but even 14 years ago this would not seem plausible.


Finally I skipped ahead to the moment of betrayal and the immediate aftermath and guess what? Tate is still being told what to do only this time by a manager. After reading other reviews that mirror what I thought of this early 1/3 of the book, I realized that this one just isn't for me since the trademark humor wasn't there and I wasn't feeling the chemistry between the main characters. This is a disappointing DNF for me.

Before I get into my personal opinion on this one I want to start by saying that this didn’t feel like a typical CL rom com. I’ve seen quite a few not so great reviews of this and I can’t help but think that it’s partly because peoples expectations for this one weren’t met based on the authors previous books. I haven’t read every single one of CL’s books but I’ve read most of them and usually they crack me up, make me swoon and I always find my next book boyfriend. This one is different, but it was different in a good way for me. It’s not really funny, it’s deeper and it felt more mature to me than their previous books, think more angst and emotion and less hijinks and laughs. I always appreciate when an author changes things up a bit, but just a heads up that this isn’t as light as their typical rom com.
I was talking with my friend Jamie @beauty_andthebook_ and I think she nailed what made this one a standout for me. This begins when Tate is just eighteen and Sam is a couple of years older and instead of a brief prologue that barely scratches the surface you get multiple chapters from this time period so you really get to know and understand what happened in their past before you flash forward fourteen years later. It provides a significant backstory and really allows the reader to experience all of the first love feelings right alongside Tate and really strengthened my connection with her. To me, great depth of character is just as important to me as an engaging storyline and CL nailed the characterization here.
A second chance romance, a Hollywood movie set and a supporting cast of characters that added flavor and spice to a sometimes dramatic story made up the most perfect combination for me! Again, this one felt more soulful and mature than the usual CL book, but if you want a heartfelt romance with a strong plot grab this one.

This was my first Christina Lauren book, but it won't be my last. Fourteen years after Tate and Sam's passionate vacation romance ends in a life-changing betrayal, they find themselves back together in unlikely circumstances. Plenty of plot and charm with a hint of spice made this a quick, fun read. Be prepared to be reminded of your own first love, no matter how cringe-worthy and to root for these characters, flaws and all.

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for a free review copy in exchange for an honest review.

Christina Lauren are auto-read authors for me, and though this book was not as much rom-com as their previous releases, it was a really solid second chance romance with a strong focus on family and forgiveness, which I really enjoyed.

I was utterly swept away in throes of young love during the beginning of the book. Those nights I spent with Sam and Tate watching the stars were some of the best. They wore their hearts on their sleeves, and I must admit, Sam's betrayal broke my heart. I was shipping these two so hard, that when fate (and a movie) brought them back together, I was really excited.

The bulk of the "now" part of the story was really Tate working through her heartbreak and emotions regarding Sam and how he betrayed her trust. It really affected her, and even over a decade later, it was interfering in her relationships. I found all her emotions and reactions realistic, and it was a pleasure seeing Tate grow and come to terms with so many things in her life, because I really wanted her to find her happy.

It was a lot of fun being on the movie set, and I loved the whole idea and inspiration for the film, but as always, it was the characters that Christina Lauren crafted, which took this story to another level for me. Tate's bestie, mother, grandmother, and the rest of the cast were all wonderful and colorful, and I grew to adore them each and every one of them. And, as with any great romance, I cried some happy tears for these two, and the ending was perfection.

Overall: Another fabulous addition to the CLo catalog.