I enjoyed this book because it made me feel simple. It wasn’t a hard read. It was easy to understand. Just a good book for this time of year

This was a gorgeous and light-hearted read that had very big Hallmark vibes. I had a lot of fun with this one.

This was a charming book. Yes, I said charming. It has a Hallmark Christmas Romantic movie feelinig. 3.5 stars read

After being forced to return to her hometown, Sam finds herself pulled back into the life she thought she had left behind, which includes her on and off ex boyfriend's closest buddy Garrett. Garrett and Sam never saw eye to eye on anything, not growing up and certainly not now. But as she spends more time with him, she realises there is a lot more to him than she originally thought.

To add to the fact that Garrett is not only Sam's ex-boyfriend's best friend, but Sam is also best friends with the woman Garrett left at the altar. Awkward! What do you expect from a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business?

This book has it all: family drama, small-town squabbles, a will they/won't they dynamic, and ex-partners getting in the way. What an enjoyable read!!

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️/ 5

This was such a fun read! I can't wait for more by this author. I would absolutely recommend! If you are looking for a book to get you back into reading. This is it!

''Samantha Redding swore off her hometown of Brandywood, Maryland when she left after high school. Sure, she misses her family, but growing up the victim of vicious gossip cured her of small-town living. Besides, the photography career she dreamed of couldn’t be found in the Appalachians.

But when Sam’s mom gets sick and needs her help, Sam’s faced with a long-term stay back home. As a tight deadline for her fast-paced job forces her to relocate a holiday photoshoot to Brandywood, Sam finds her old life converging with her new one. What’s more, she needs help from the townspeople she’s spent years disregarding. Overwhelmed, Sam finds an ally in a man who kept her at arm’s length all his life: brooding and sarcastic Garrett Doyle—her on-and-off again boyfriend’s best friend.

There’s a reason Garrett’s tried to keep his distance from Sam, though: being in love with your best friend’s girl sucks. But Sam needs help and he’s too much of a sucker to say no. Anyway, she’s leaving Brandywood soon enough, and then he can go back to trying to forget her.''


This was a very easy book to read and I got lost in it for a day. I really enjoyed it. If you like a romance with a bit of family dynamics added in, I highly recommend it. I will be looking forward to Annabelle McCormack's next book in this series. I love a story where people make others feel worth fighting for, that we all desire second chances - maybe even more.

This had broken relationships, secrets and a smexy romance. It checked all my boxes. I loved the romance of course and think AM has a special touch or at least she speaks my language. I highly recommend it if you like contemporary romance.

Thank you Netgalley for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I loved these characters - I almost didn´t want the book to end, because I had a blast.
Loved the writing style, can´t wait to read more of this author.

Oh goody another book about a career woman who gives up everything she is and has and has earned to move back to her home town because of the boy she overlooked. Yuck. None of these character were like able. And who tells someone they’re pregnant in the midst of sex? Worst epilogue ever.

As a lover of small town romances, I was so excited to read this one by Annabelle McCormack. Right off the bat we were introduced to the main character Sam when a family emergency brings her back to her small town of Brandywood. It's made clear immediately that she dislikes her home town and has deep feelings of resentment for it. when it becomes clear Sam must stay in Brandywood for her mother longer than she ever wanted to, we then get introduced to a whole slew of other characters. Eli the childhood on and off boyfriend, Garrett who is Eli's best friend and Katie, who is Sam's best friend and Garrett's ex-fiance... Honestly this book had so much potential but it read as completely chaotic. The conflicts piled up to the point of whiplash trying to follow it all. So much was happening all at once, all the time that I feel as though the author never completely settled on just one thing. That made the characters feel very two-demential and not fully developed. Sam was all over the place that I never fully liked her, yet also didn't dislike her. Garrett was probably the best character and even then, he was pretty dull. I just wanted this story to flow. The writing also could have been a little more refined. It was very wordy in the action descriptions. Tiny things went into way too much detail that I ended up skimming a lot. What I did enjoy was the small-town life and characters like Bunny and Peter, the small town drama and gossip, the themes of complicated families and difficult childhoods. The touch on alcoholism and getting help. The Christmas baking and community coming together. I wished we had more time exploring Sam's mother's illness and the time she had left, as that was really the catalyst for the whole story. That could have been a beautiful relationship to go even further with. All in all, this was a cute and somewhat heartwarming romance about two childhood friends to lovers, best-friends-girl.

I was lucky to receive an advance copy of All This Time by Annabelle McCormack from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest review and opinion. I absolutely loved this book and it will give you all the feels. I seriously can't wait to read more by this author.

I loved All This Time! It has all the main ingredients that I like to read in a romance. The main characters were easy to like, the storyline was good. I also found the surprise secret that Sam found out, was a great twist to her life story. There were, sad, happy and nerve wracking moments in this book, and all together they made a really likable story.

I’m really looking forward to the next book in this series and am also going to check out more books from this author!

I really enjoyed the setting of this book.
Great personalities shone through in the background characters which is always enjoy.
I did feel it was a bit slow in the middle. I would have liked more tension and pace through the middle of the book to build more of a climax.

Wow - All This Time had a little bit of everything - enemies to lovers, second chances, proposals, babies, some trigger warning items like alcoholism and abuse and some holiday magic. There was a lot going on and it was a little messy at times, but it kept my attention and I wanted to see how it ended.

This books gave me all the feels! (love, humor, heartbreak) I appreciate that all of the characters felt like real people with realistic baggage. (spoilers-ish) It is a happy but also bittersweet ending. Some spice but not a gratuitous amount. He falls first is one of my favorite tropes and Garrett does not disappoint! I do not always love a self sabotaging female lead but Sam is well developed and her attitudes and motivations do not seem as arbitrary as some set in their ways a bit snobby female leads I have read about before.

Not really a winner for me. The characters were across the board really shallowly written, though you could tell the author dumped a load of issues on everyone as a sort of shortcut for actual depth. The main plot was interesting, but the book kept dragging under the weight of SO MANY subplots and plot points that were just overwhelming and not necessary. Also, the dialogue wasn’t well written- it came off stilted and didn’t ring true.

This is a good book. The two main characters are Sam and Garrett. They have known each other all their lives. Sam come back to her hometown to check on her sister who just had a baby. She sees Garrett when he brings her Mom to the hospital by ambulance. She had fallen and hurt her head, but she had a more pressing problem. She had stage 4 cancer, no cure. Sam saw Garrett and both realized there was an attraction. They both had trust issues up together they work through them and fell in love.

Samantha Redding left her hometown of Brandywood, Maryland and vowed to never go back there. She misses her family but after being the victim of horrible small town gossip she never wanted to go back. After her mom gets sick Sam is forced to return to Brandywood, where her past life collides with her new one. She finds an ally in Garrett Doyle, her on again/off again boyfriend's best friend. Garrett has tried to keep his distance from Sam because he's in love with her.
This was a great light read and I enjoyed it. There are lots of plot twists and a happy ending as well. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy.

I do love a good enemies to lovers and a healing of old childhood wounds, but unfortunately All This Time didn’t quite hit the spot for me. I think, in part because the problem with returning from the big city stories to their small hometown tends to end in the same cliche ending. Also, I think too many side characters interfering just didn’t work for me, or I’ve read it too many times before. I enjoyed the characterisation and the writing, but 8 think polotwise it fell flat for me.

This was well written, with good characters and a generally upbeat vibe. However I think the best friend's ex trope made it a bit hard to read and just a tad bit awkward.

Personally this wasn't my cup of tea, but it was still a good book. So I would definitely recommend it if you're okay with the trope.

Thank you to the publisher for kindly providing me with an ARC via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

I loved that Garrett had been in love with Sam forever but it felt a little weird that the four main people were all coupled up and it was not Sam and Garett...until it was.
With Sam, the female lead, having to return to her smalltown hometown she is apprehensive due to the her abandoning said town as soon as possible because she felt like she was constantly the topic of gossip and bullying. She returns for family and has a learning curve whilst also falling for her exes best friend. Sam's best friend is Garetts ex and that is the part where it is all just a bit....awkward?!
It is well written and enjoyable and if it wasn't for the best friend's and exes mixing it wouldve moved up in my rating but I guess I like my romance characters to have the HEA without any shadow or mark against their good name as it were ;)