DNF. I really struggled with the author's writing style. The pacing didn't feel natural and the descriptions felt long and unnecessary at points. I also thought the chemistry between Temperance and Duncan was lacking. Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Griffin for the ARC.

This was my first from the author although this is the second in the series. It was a solid second chance romance and I will happily read anything involving the Brady brothers. There were a lot of characters introduced in the beginning and it was hard keeping them all straight. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy!

I enjoyed this read. The miscommunication, or lack of communication, of the main characters had me a bit frustrated but it all wrapped up nicely and was a well written book!

I absolutely love everything about “Right Where We Left Us.” Duncan and Temperance are a complicated couple who made me question their relationship and whether they even still had a chance. I desperately wanted them to be together but had they been apart too long for them to ever get back the connection they had as teenagers? Were they just too different and focused on their careers to revisit that magical time in their lives?

Temperance had memories of Duncan to last a lifetime but she felt that there were more memories to make if they both just opened their hearts to the possibility of love. They needed to ignore family drama and their past mistakes so they could concentrate on how to live and love right now. Gathering at the Vineyard for a Brady family wedding was a blessing and a curse for both of them. Duncan had never stopped thinking about Temperance and being this close to her was tempting and confusing at the same time. Temperance had too much on her plate right now to deal with a summer romance, but would it really be all that bad?

Ms. Devon’s writing is visually appealing, poetically romantic and heart wrenchingly emotional. I felt the need to read the book again so as not to miss a tender gaze, a sexy wink or a heartfelt tear. The beauty of the vineyard wrapped its magic around everyone as they celebrated, laughed and made plans for the future. This sounds like paradise to me; where dreams come true and all days end in a happily ever after.

Overall, I enjoyed this book! It was a quick read for me. Throughout, I was a little unsure of the stakes and history between TJ and Duncan, but I loved the relationships with side characters — I’m a sucker for big families who adore each other — and the dual perspective.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martins Press for this ARC!

I loved premise of this book, and while it was fluffy and cute - the plot and characters did fall a bit flat for me.

I felt like I never really got a feel of the history between TJ and Duncan, and honestly so much of their past (and even currently) could he been solved with some communication.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book!
All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Jen Devon is literally an incredible writer and I leave every book of hers feeling dumbstruck. BEND TOWARD THE SUN was among my top top top books last year, and so I went in with high expectations, and they were absolutely met.

Devon does FRAUGHT very, very well. This book is tense and so heated and it's filled with lush, evocative prose set in the same landscape as BTTS, which I loved. The Brady family is as lovely and chaotic as ever, and there better be a Malcolm and Frankie book because I am READY.

But the romance here is just absolutely stunning. Devon makes these people so absurdly real, from how the smell and taste and talk, and you really feel just dropped into this little slice of life she's concocted. It's a quiet book like BTTS, and the conflicts are far more internal than they are external, but that's a feature to me, not a bug. It's rich and cerebral and psychological, and I particularly loved the dynamic between Duncan and Temperance, how open he was in his desire/need for her, and how scared she was. Once again, Devon loves an emotionally available man and an anxious, hesitant woman, and once again, she makes this work so deliciously. The steam is a highlight, as it was in book 1 too. Extremely sexy and well-done. I HIGHLY recommend this author, and desperately need a third and fourth and fifth book!!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press of the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Super excited to have read my first arc read and not have it be a bust. I liked the plot of the story and the characters. I love how the author gives the reader details of the scenery makes me wanna go find this place! It doesn’t keep me hooked as sometimes I felt I was reading too much extra information, but it wasn’t enough to where I’d want to dnf. Mainly because I grew fond of the main characters and needed to see how it ended for them. Which was, in my opinion, so cute!

I absolutely adore a second chance romance with dual POV’s so I was really looking forward to this one. I liked the characters and thought they had great chemistry. I really loved the setting and the authors descriptions of it were so beautiful and had me wishing I was there.

I seem to be in the minority with my opinion but I genuinely do not understand how. Before requesting this ARC, I was hesitant because my memory was saying I didn’t really enjoy this author’s first book, yet when I looked, I’d given it 4 stars. So I requested this one thinking I must’ve forgotten something.

Then I started reading, and realized my initial memory was correct. I went back to the review and read it and apparently I forgave a whole lot of issues because I loved the characters and their relationship, but with this book, those issues were HUGE and made this book a slog. The pacing was awful, the writing is WAY too flowery and over described, the array of side characters is way too wide to keep track of seeing as all of them continue to appear consistently, and the relationship - to me - has zero chemistry. There’s no reason the two leads can’t be together for most of the book, meaning there’s no stakes and only frustration from my end as a reader as to why they aren’t together, and I honestly did not care or want to root for either of them. Like, they literally felt like they truly hated each other at times. Like they were two toxic people stuck in a tailspin they couldn’t escape, and I wanted nothing to do with. In fact, there were two side characters dancing around each other on maybe a total of 10 pages throughout this book and I cared more about them then the characters whose story this was.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press of the ARC of this book in exchange for a review. This was a super enjoyable and quick read and had a good amount of depth for a romance book. I would say this follows a similar style to Lucy Score, Corinne MIchaels etc. It is a fairly predictable second chance romance but often times, when people pick up a book like this one, that is what they are looking for. I would definitely read more books by Jen Devon in the future.

Temperance is a 30 something pediatrician with parents who cared more about ambition than raising their children. She has always done what will keep her in good standing with them except for her brief but lasting love with Duncan. at the age of 18. Duncan has always fallen into line with what his family needs and has been made to feel like he can't have ambitions of his own. This book is the story of how they find their way back to each other. As with a lot of romance books, I feel like their relationship falling apart has a lot to do with miscommunication. I enjoyed reading how it unfolds for them, but it is a super SLOW burn.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I enjoyed reading this book. I really liked the characters and I felt like they had a lot of chemistry. The dual POVs really provided a lot of insight into the characters' feelings for each other and also their past relationship. If you like YEARS of pining/angst and second chance romance, this book is for you.

The Brady family is so cute, and I can definitely see another book happening with another 2 characters. I didn't know there was another book on Rowan and Harry that came out before this one, so I'm going to go read that one as well!

I just wanna start this off with how much I truly loved Jen Devons first book so I went into this one with high hopes. While I do just love the way Jen writes and how beautifully she describes things I found myself endlessly irritated by the two main characters. I understand maybe the goal was a slow burn romance, but for me within the first 5 chapters its established that they love eachother so it really ruined any slow burn tension and instead just made the will they wont they TIRESOME. Like dear god why can't they be together? I am not sure either character even really knew???? I also just felt like everything was on Temperances terms and that rubbed me the wrong way.

To sum it up, was it beautifully written? Yes. But did I at some points want to literally throw my kindle and yell MAKE UP YOUR MIND? Also yes.

What’s a romance book without the jealousy scenes? I wouldn’t know because this book served that and so much more. I was beyond excited when Devon announced that there would be an another book in the same world as, Bend Toward the Sun. And it didn’t disappoint. This was so fun and entertaining.

Though I sincerely enjoyed Devon's debut, I just didn't have the same love for this one and I ended up DNFing. When second chance romances are good, they're really good; when they go wrong, they go really wrong. And, unfortunately, this is the kind that bugged me from the start. Things are definitely messier and more dramatic than I'd like, so I had trouble rooting for either character. The writing itself is solid, I simply didn't connect to the story. I'm sure other readers will have a better experience, but it was a DNF for me.

I’m torn on this. The story was kind of cute, the characters were likable, but there were a lot of plot holes. When did Duncan ask Temperance to marry him the first time? He had the ring, he made comments about it, but we never got the story. What actually happened when Duncan broke up with her the first time? We find out why he did, but not how. If he was so obsessed with her, why’d he go start having sex with other women and then go back a year later? Why did she reject him then? Was it just that he’d moved on? I thought I didn’t enjoy second chance when the flashbacks are interspersed until the very end, but it seems I enjoy second chance without explanations even more.

Ultimately, I feel like I read the book for no reason. There were just vignettes of them being tense, flirty, crossing a thousand lines while she thought he was dating Millie, and avoiding having any sort of real conversations about the past or what the hell they’re doing in the present. They almost get there about 70% in, but she walks away and he drops it. It’s just pages and pages two idiots in love with each other standing across from each other glaring or staring longingly.

The writing was descriptive, some of the side characters were fun and had different enough personalities that they stood out, but the pacing felt off and like it was missing a lot. It’d easily have been a four or five star book if it were mapped out a bit better.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this early ARC.
I did not realize this was a secondary story from a previously published book by this author. That being said, it was just as enjoyable as a standalone.
The author is very poignant in her descriptions. Her writing felt almost ethereal when describing the vineyards where the story takes place. At times, I felt the story fell into too much description and not enough character development.
There was so much pulling away in this story and a lack of communication between our two main characters.
This story was full of tension, angst, and residual anger.
Temperance and Duncan have the intensity of a strong magnet, constantly being pulled together. They fell in love when they were 18 and thought that time would be on their side. 14 years later and they are both haunted by their memories and the feelings of what could have been.
Temperance's parents played a big role in their separation causing a Romeo and Juliet scenario. Doomed with no other choice but to separate. Life was too big and the pressure was mounting to the point where they couldn't have survived.
Duncan is the only one fighting for his future, while Temperance seems stuck in the shadow of who her parents want her to be. I felt so much sadness and angst for Duncan, while I found Temperance to be a bit undeserving of his unwavering love.
Overall, I would recommend this book for those who love second chance romance. The ending alone was worth it.

Great book! I really love how Jen Devon tells a story. So if you are a fan of how Jen Devon paints such vivid pictures of characters, their surroundings, histories, and feelings then you will love this book. This is a story of second chances for main characters Temperance and Duncan. Great book!! I would definitely recommend it.

Look at that cover! I liked Jen's writing style and how she developed her characters and the situations she placed them in. The story kept me entertained with its well-paced narrative. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

‘Right Where we Left Us’ by Jen Devon made me want to forget all my responsibilities and do nothing but read. I was drawn in from the very start with the promise of a delicious second-chance romance - and I was not left disappointed. The chemistry between Temperance and Duncan, both as teenagers and now, was captivating, undeniable, and so well written. Devon created a love full of sexy angst and tenderness, pining and passion. I couldn’t help but root from them each step of the way. A beautiful love story set in a whimsical winery run by a loving family and incredible group of friends, ‘Right Where We Left Us’ has it all. I would recommend this book, and the series, over and over again.