Logan and Rosemary were best friends that had a falling out. Twenty years later they embark on a cross country journey with their mentor on his dying wish.

This book is a cute queer enemies to lovers book. This book will make you laugh and cry at once.

I cannot say enough good things about Alison Cochrun. Every one of her books does that thing where it reaches in and grabs me by the heart.

Cochrun has described "Here We Go Again" as her "sapphic road trip rom-com about death", and that's exactly what this is. Logan and Rosemary are polar opposites who were friends when they were kids, but had a falling out when they were about fourteen and now have nothing good to say to each other. But they still have something in common - Joe, their beloved high school English teacher. Joe's dying wish is to have the girls take him from their hometown in the Pacific Northwest to a small home he owns in Bar Harbor, Maine, so he can die staring out at the Atlantic. While both Logan and Rosemary worry they won't survive a trip like that in each other's presence, they can't refuse - it's for Joe. As with any good road trip, the journey is full of mishaps, detours, and self-discovery.

The characters absolutely leap off the page. Logan is a self-described "fuckboy" who can't let herself get too attached. Rosemary creates an extensive and efficient itinerary and panics when things start to go awry. And Joe, Joe is sassy and sweet and vulnerable and everything you want in a mentor - he wants what's best for Logan and Rosemary, and he wants an epic death trip, and yet he also comes to realize that there's more for him to learn. Each of them grows so much over the course of the story, and so many of their realizations had me on the brink of tears right with them.

"Here We Go Again" is a road trip of life and death and all of the love that you find in the span between the two - for yourself, for family, for mentors, for one another. It's beautiful and funny and heartbreaking and heart-mending. I feel so fortunate to have received this arc - thank you NetGalley, Simon & Schuster Canada, and Atria Books for this experience in exchange for an honest review.

I was a huge fan of Alison Cochrun's first book, The Charm Offensive so I was so excited to get an ARC of Here We Go Again, and it did not disappoint!

I loved Logan and Rosemary and switching between their POV. They were hilarious and sucked me in from the very beginning, from their banter together combined with their love for Joe. This was the perfect enemies to lovers, second chance romance. And of course the end had me bawling!

I hope and pray that this becomes a movie. It would be the perfect queer road trip rom-com with an emotional kick.

I'll continue to read everything Alison Cochrun writes!

I adored this book so much, but it’s not surprising, i eat up everything Alison Cochrun gives us. The romance was incredible. These two girls have my heart and i was completely invested in their story . I also really enjoyed the road trip and summertime vibes. What i did not expect was to be hit by all the feels and cry my way through the second half. i say this every time i finish one of Alison Cochrun book : The writing of mental health and heavy emotions is perfection. 👏🏻 The depiction of anxiety was super relatable and the way she painted grief and fear was phenomenal. Well done. Autobuy author without hesitation.
The only thing that didn’t work for me is that i think the start was a little slow and it me a while to really get into it. I also got a little annoyed at how many time Logan called herself a “fuckboy”.
Will still recommend to everyone who listen, but probably after i force them to read The Charm Offensive and Kiss Her Once For Me.

I struggle with rating this one, to be honest, because in a lot of ways, it is my favourite of all of Alison Cochrun's novels, but the things that I don't enjoy about her writing are also amped up, so I also have more moments that I dislike than the other two. In the end though, this book did make me sob more than once, so I feel like somewhere around 4 stars feels right.

Let's get the negatives out of the way - if you found all the Taylor Swift references in Kiss Her Once for Me cringey (as I did), you will find all the pop culture references in Here We Go Again ten times worse. I lost count of how many times a celebrity's name was used as an expletive, and at least half of those were Shay Mitchell. I've said it before and I'll say it again, but I absolutely despise when pop culture references are used excessively in contemporary romances, especially when they are used within the dialogue the way that Alison Cochrun uses them - maybe it's just because neither I nor the people I hang out with talk like this, but I just think it's extremely unnatural to be dropping celebrity names and trivia out of the blue like this.

Something else that I know has been a common criticism of Cochrun's books in the past is her depiction of BIPOC characters and stories as a white author - while both Logan and Rosemary are white, Joe is Mexican, and arguably a main character as well. Similarly to in the past, I'm not sure how I feel about the way BIPOC are represented in the book. There's nothing overtly offensive about it, but there is just something very forced and inauthentic about the way the characters describe their struggles existing as non-white people. Once again, it's not something that really negatively affected my reading experience, but just something that I do think about, especially as this is consistently something I feel about her books.

Onto what I did love - as with The Charm Offensive and Kiss Her Once for Me, there is something about the way Cochrun writes romances and relationships in general that just works for me. Logan and Rosemary are incredibly messy, and on paper, don't seem like they should work together, but Cochrun makes me root for them anyway. Another thing that I've consistently liked about Cochrun's books that is also present here is the way that she writes about anxiety - I personally find it super relatable, and Rosemary truly owns my whole heart. There is also ADHD rep in this book, though I can't personally speak to how well that is portrayed.

All that said, the star of the show is absolutely Joe. Although this is a book that is basically about him dying, he is truly what brings this story to life. His dynamics with both girls individually, as well as together, is so incredibly heartwarming, but also hilarious at times. I would happily read a prequel novel about Joe's youth.

Overall, this is a fun rom com that will have you laughing and crying all at once. I think objectively, this is Cochrun's strongest work yet, and despite some of my ongoing gripes with her writing, I'll definitely still be tuning into her next release.

Thank you NetGalley and Simon and Schuster Canada for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. This is the third Alison Cochrun book I've read and it did not at all disappoint. It once again follows her signature style of mixing a romance novel with poignant topics of mental health. I love this kind of romance because through exploring each character's mental health journey in addition to their love stories, it feels like they are more well rounded fleshed out people, and it helps the romance feel sweeter and more deserved. Here We Go Again follows childhood best friends, Logan and Rosemary, who had a falling out in high school but now in their early 30s are reunited as their former english teacher asks them to take a road trip with him at the end of his life. Some might say this isn't exactly what they want in a romance, however I love books that explore themes of grief so it was right up my alley. Cochrun beautifully captures what it's like to know someone you love is near the end of their life and come to terms with it.

This was pretty disappointing. I feel like as a contemporary fiction book, this was fine. But as a *romance* specifically, it wasn't great. There just wasn't that much romance? It didn't feel like a *romantic* book to me. It deals with pretty serious subject matter--death of a loved one from a terminal illness--and it's not that I don't think that kind of subject matter can't be in a romance, but I feel like we just didn't get that much romantic development.

Alison Cochrun never misses. A road trip romcom about death? Childhood besties to enemies to coworkers to lovers? The PINING. The angst.

The fact that I cried for the last 3 chapters but laughed too.

An absolutely incredible read. I’ve gotta go find some Kleenex and listen to the Mamma Mia soundtracks.