oh hello just the book for me. i loved this book. the characters were brilliant. Kay has written these two to perfection. their dialogue their maturity even in times where its hard was refreshing. i think this partly comes from the age. and thats another thing that was nice, to have this age group.
Tessa is feeling adrift in her life. she cant fit her wants to the life she has not least for the people currently in it. so with a middle of the night epiphany she decides to let go of what isn't serving her. that means she now has no job nor a man. great.
Cypress has broken off his engagement. it was the right thing to do and he needs to find a fresh start. he needs to keep moving on now. so he takes the job of the professor at Black Elm University taking him from his now home in Chicago all the way to California. in his new class there is a student who is ringing bells for him. but it cant be true. and yet, why does she seem familiar? and the student in question has the same confusing feelings. but this is steered by her need to set him up with her lovely mum. and so she convinces him to go on a blind date with her mum. but when the pair meet they are about to discover there is nothing so innocent about this oopsie daisy meetup of strangers on a blind date. infact there is nothing to do with strangers about this pair. her mum is Tessa. and they already know each other from long ago. and that is something that will bring far more complexities to this meeting.
this book hit me so deeply. in all the best way you want a book to. it was light and shade. it was weighty but hug-gable. it was deep and emotional. it was just all the good stuff. i felt i was somehow within this world with a personal foot in the door to these people lives. i ended up really caring for the people and where this would go for them all.
the relationship were told with such tender and deft hands. i couldn't look away. the mother daughter thang going on with our two was a delight to read. and i loved how Tessa wasn't damaged to the point of changing how she parents for the worse. and instead her own relationship with her mum made her vow that she wouldn't repeat it with her own daughter.
the second chance romance in this book was also again a cut above most. i dont know how to describe it. maybe it was simply the ages. but it felt like it hit the notches off my heart even more so.i fell in love with the pair and was rooting them on. willing them to be ok. and it wasn't going to be without its storms to weather either. but i was here for it all the way.
a gorgeous book. and it was told in a way that made it no hardship to sit and read in one sitting.


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