Cora meets Lincoln on her first real day at college and immediately falls for him. Arriving at college, Cora is ready to change her life, find her people, and most importantly, find herself. Lincoln helps Cora accomplish all of these things and more. Though just when she feels like she's figured everything else out, life begins to challenge her in so many ways. Her father's recent illness and her health scare led to the loss of all of her comforts, especially Lincoln. Enter Aaron, another potential love and someone who truly seems to understand Cora for who she really is. But Lincoln is still in the back of her mind. Twenty years later, Cora is still in the same predicament. She has recently reconnected with both men and must revisit her past to discover her future. Will her second-chance romance come to fruition, or is Cora better off without either of these men?

This book had everything I wanted - found family. second chances, and a good coming-of-age story. However, it fell flat almost from the beginning. I did not like Lincoln at all and was rooting for their relationship to fail from the start. Also, Aaron's letters came off as pretentious, and I couldn't see what she saw in him. The men in this book made it very difficult for me to feel any sort of connection to the general story. Cora deserved better throughout the book! I wanted to love this so much, but it just wasn't for me. If you can form a connection with either of these men, I think you'll love the story!

I really enjoyed this book that featured a love triangle and a second chance with that same love triangle. Cora arrives at college in the late 1990s (love all the 90s nostalgia) feeling sheltered and ready to become who she is meant to be. For those of us who have lived those college days, finding who you are meant to be isn't always easy, especially with two different men being a huge part of those years. The second part of this story is told twenty years later and Cora is facing some of the same thoughts she did twenty years ago. Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for a chance to read this one early in exchange for an honest review.

4⭐️

**Thank you Atria Books and NetGalley for the eARC**

Cora is at a crossroads/love triangle for the second time in her life. With the same two men. It’s been twenty years since she first met Lincoln and Aaron, but the question is the same: who is the one for her?

The story follows Cora falling in love from the beginning as she reflects on love and her own self discoveries. It’s an enjoyable story that looks at some hard truths like poverty vs wealth. It’s was well paced. Took a little longer to get invested, but came to enjoy the characters and story.

I went into this book with high expectations, especially because I usually enjoy love triangles and the emotional complexity they can bring. Unfortunately, I found it difficult to connect with the characters and their relationships. The dynamic between them felt underdeveloped, and the emotional tension I usually look for in a triangle just wasn’t there.

This book is the ultimate second chance romance. In college, sheltered Cora falls in love with not one, but two men. With her heart broken, she spends the next twenty years alone protecting herself from more hurt. Until a random encounter brings both men back into her life and she must decide if she is willing to put her heart on the line again and who she should trust with it.

Ugh I hate when the premise of a book is so much better than the execution. Cora is nearing 40 and finds herself caught between the same two men she was stuck between when she was in her 20’s. While some of the moments were ok the biggest problem was with Cora herself. I just didn’t care for her. Her extreme indecisiveness was a turn off and I just couldn’t get past it.
Thank you to Netgalley and to the publishers for allowing me to read this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

This is a coming of age story. Cora arrives at college after having a sheltered childhood determined to reinvent herself. She finds herself in love with two guys. She has to make some hard choices. Twenty years later she finds herself in love with the same two guys again. Who will she choose. Thanks to @NetGalley for the ARC of this book.

I really liked the overall structure of Christine Pride’s All the Men I’ve Loved Again: Cora, a woman about to turn 40, has unexpectedly reconnected with two men from her past and once again needs to decide between them. There’s Lincoln—her first love, her boyfriend throughout college, the man who seems to know Cora better than she knows herself. Then there’s Aaron—a photographer with whom younger Cora had a whirlwind romance before it ended in heartbreak. In the first half of the book, Cora remembers her college years and revisits her memories of both men. The second half brings her back to the fall of 2021, when both men suddenly re-enter her life.

Unfortunately, the reader really only gets insight into Cora’s relationship with Lincoln, which takes up the lion’s share of the text. Pride introduces Aaron through letters he wrote to Cora, which she intersperses among the Lincoln chapters, but that means we get very little understanding of how Cora felt about him at the time.

Ultimately, the strongest elements of All the Men I’ve Loved Again are Cora’s relationship with her two best friends and the bond she has with her father. It’s not a spoiler to say that she picks between Lincoln and Aaron in the end, but I found myself wishing Cora had rejected both and continued to work on herself.

“That’s what love does—teaches you, pushes you, challenges you, warms you.”

3.5 stars! This book took me a little while to get into but once I did I flew through it. It beautifully touches upon relationships, specifically revisiting adolescent relationships in adulthood. If you have ever tried it just one more time with an ex, helped a friend through a rough time with a man, or had your heart split between two people then I believe you will enjoy this story.

My favorite take away from it, though, is the relationship between Cora and her father. Fathers are so very important and her father is a stand up guy. Their relationship is one to be both admired and held up as a standard.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Atria Books for the complimentary ARC.

Cora Cora Cora how much I dislike you. I get being indecisive. I get it. But my goodness, from the hero to that’s how the book starts where she can’t pick a nail color and her friend does for. Off the bat, she was annoying. The plot didn’t work for me. The pacing was odd. What I loved though was the throwbacks to the 2000s and the representation of the dmv area. The love triangle while in theory sounds hilarious and fun, sadly it didn’t appeal to me within this book.

All the Men I’ve Loved Again has such an intriguing premise. Cora Belle is nearing forty when she finds herself caught between the same two men who once held her heart in her early twenties. Unfortunately, I don’t think it quite lived up to its potential.

It’s marketed as a second-chance love triangle, but that element doesn’t really come into play until the last 20 percent of the book. Most of the story is told through a flashback to Cora’s college years, where we spend a lot of time getting to know one of the men. The other gets only a single chapter and a few out-of-context letters sprinkled throughout. It made it hard to feel the weight of Cora’s connection with both of the MMCs. One of them was insufferable at times, and Cora herself often felt frustratingly passive. I just wanted her to make a choice for herself.

There were definitely some tender moments. I absolutely loved Cora’s dad as a character, and I kept reading because I wanted to know who she would choose in the end. But overall, this felt more like a coming-of-age or women’s fiction story than a romance. The idea was strong, but the execution fell a bit short for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Atria books for my advanced readers copy. Unfortunately, this one wasn’t for me and I did not finish at the 5% mark due to a comment that was made about blonde, white women. I found it to be very offensive and uncalled for. I understand what the author is trying to get at but it could have been written in a more tasteful way. Especially considering this is a romance book and not historical fiction.

This was my first book by this author. The story is a second chance romance with a love triangle-so readers who enjoy those tropes may enjoy this book.
I couldn’t really connect with the main character so this read fell a little flat for me.

After spending her childhood and teen years in a very white school as the token Black girl, Cora Belle is ready for college to completely change her life. She is hoping to find her ride or die friends, but she was not expected Lincoln. Her first love is fast and furious before becoming a roller coaster she isn’t sure she wants to continue to ride. During the turmoil, Cora meets Aaron. The two carry on as pen pals but Cora feels like he is the only one that truly understands her, but how can she love two men at the same time?

At the start I really felt for Cora, in the middle I had some doubts about her and her decisions, but in the end I loved her again! Her choices in her twenties were fully understandable, but I did question some of the ones she made at almost 40! I really loved her relationship with her father and how close they stayed throughout the book, but I was side eyeing her dad a bit with some of the Lincoln stuff. So basically after re-reading what I just wrote, I really enjoyed these characters, but also questioned a lot of their decisions! Oh, and of course I loved all the late 1990’s, early 2000’s vibes!

Thank you to @atriabooks for my gifted copy of this book!

This was a beautiful book that was heart wrenching. It read very similar to Kennedy Ryan. A romance that spans two decades, I felt like we missed out on the early Aaron story, but I loved reading it in the present time. Thanks so much for the arc!

I guess I expected this to be sort of like “I Almost Forgot About You” by Terry McMillan, but it’s not that. It’s got a new adult vibe to it, which is fine for people who enjoy that kind of story. Personally, I just cannot with an almost-40 woman who hasn’t got her sh*t together yet. DNF.

The late 90s/early 2000s references were the highlight of this book for me. Bath & Body Works? Destiny’s Child? Sign me up! I went straight to my playlist that had all the referenced songs on it immediately following finishing this book, as a matter of fact! The titles of the chapters were also fun, it really went with the theme of the book well and I loved them. Also really loved the relationship Cora had with her friends, and the development of the one she had with her dad.

My main issue with this was the actual love triangle aspect of it. I don’t mind love triangles at all, but imo, even though this is fully marketed as one, it really isn’t because of one very specific reason: I really dislike when one person has so much build up to the relationship, and we spend so much time with them, and the other option isn’t given as much development, which is exactly how I felt about Lincoln and Aaron. Add to the fact that I didn’t like Lincoln at all (to be fair, I don’t think we were really meant to), along with just wanting more than we got with Aaron so that just…wasn’t great. Aaron isn’t even physically introduced into the story until over halfway through.

Also- Aaron’s letters. Probably the worst formatted thing I’ve ever read on a Kindle. Even worse than pdfs. It absolutely should not take that much effort to read a book on a Kindle. The pacing was also off for me, everything was moving really fast, and Aaron’s letters were sprinkled in before even meeting him, which I thought was a strange choice.

Overall, this one was fine, but not one I'd read again.

3.5 stars. While marketed as a love triangle, this novel is just as much a coming-of-age story. Cora arrives at Hamlin College in Virginia eager to reinvent herself. Having grown up as the only white girl at her elite private school—which she attended only because her father taught there—college presents a fresh start. She can finally make her own friends and define her own path.
At Hamlin, she quickly bonds with her best friends, Kim and Neisha, and falls deeply for Lincoln, a driven scholarship student determined to make a name for himself in politics. Their relationship is passionate but tumultuous, and during one of their rough patches, Cora crosses paths with Aaron, leading to a whirlwind romance in Paris. Yet, for Cora, love always seems to end in heartbreak.
Fast forward twenty years, and Cora finds herself at a crossroads, with both Aaron and Lincoln back in her life. Can she let her guard down and embrace love again? And if so, who should she choose?

*Special thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for this digital e-arc.*

Thanks to Atria Books and NetGalley for providing me with an early copy to read a review.

Overall, this book was a miss for me. There were some truly beautiful passages of writing, but the main character was hard to connect with for me, I don’t think that she was under-developed, but I just didn’t gel with her. I did really like the relationships with her father and friends and wished that would have been explored more.

Mild spoiler alert: So much time in the novel was devoted to Lincoln that I felt like Aaron came out of nowhere and it was hard to root for him because their connection seemed to be just about instant attraction. I wish more time could have been devoted to their relationship, but the last chapter was satisfying.

A story of self discovery and identity, mixed into a second chance love triangle.

When Cora goes off to college, she is desperate to reinvent herself. Making new friends and falling in love is what you're supposed to do in college isn't it? But young love is a rollercoaster and when things aren't going well with Lincoln, Cora meets Aaron, leaving Cora confused on which love to choose. 20 years later, Cora has a second chance at love when not one, but both men come back into her life, leaving her with the same difficult choice to make.

The throwback nostalgic vibes of this book was fun! I usually really enjoy stories that have a then vs now aspect. I personally am not the biggest fan of love triangles or why choose, because I feel like one of the love interests never gets as much 'screen time." There was alot more story build up with Lincoln than Aaron, and though yes some loves come out of left field and are a whirlwind, I couldn't connect with the characters as much.