First, I have to say that Joey made me laugh out loud multiple times, like loud snotty laugh out loud! Loved the interactions between characters. Katie took me a little to get used to due to her neurodivergent personality. Sometimes her lack of emotion was a bit jarring like when her husband was in a coma. She didn’t seem to be all that affected by it. As the book went on you got see delve much more into her emotions. Nick and Olive were friends way back in HS and find their way back to each other in this book. Overall, a good read

Quirky family, both found and actual, with long history and long held secrets and feelings, that brew and bubble over only for more to brew up again. Fear of feelings and rampant miscommunication abound, with a solid story and diverse and interesting characters. Will definitely keep you entertained to the end.

The queen of small town rom com is back with a delightful addition to The Sunrise Cove Series. This second chance, best friends brother, friends to lovers rom com will fill your heart with engaging characters and off beat humor. I absolutely loved Olive and Noah.

This friends to exes to lovers just didn't work for me. And I usually love a good second chance romance. This could be because this was an early arc, and some things will get fixed later on. There were just too many of them. So take my review with a grain of salt.

I never fell in love or had sympathy for the two main characters. They started out being jerks to each other, while at the same time lusting after each other, which was a bit too big of a pull and a push. Let me have my characters hate each other than grow into liking them, rather then having them both pine after each other from the get-go.

There was also too much backstory delivered, but it could be because this is the 7th book in the series, and this was told in other books, Hard to say. This is the first one I've read.

And hopefully handing a phone over to a kid with chocolate on their hands, or letting the same six-year-old into the ICU will be fixed in the editing process.

So, if you love this author, and have read this series, then this is probably something you would continue to love.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for making this book available for an honest review. This book will be coming out the 21st of January 2025.