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CW

🟣 Open-Door Sex Scenes

🟣 Anxiety Attacks On Page

🟣 Emotionally Manipulative Parents

TROPES

🐝 Marriage of Convenience

🐝 Friends to Lovers

Our Ride To Forever follows Theo, a young woman trying to get her yoga business off the ground while working at a theme park, and Orson, the owner of the local bar. Both have things they need and after a one-night stand turns into a multi-night stand, they decide to do what everyone who needs health insurance and tax breaks does: get married. But, it isn’t all sunshine and bees when things start to get too real for them.

Once again, Julie Olivia has caused me to pull an all-nighter. I finished this book in one day. Everything about Theo and Orson works so well, and I think they may be my favorite Honeywood couple right now. I love that the book starts with a scene in the present before taking us back in time to what happened to these two, both sunshine types in different ways. 

Also, as someone that also struggles with my anxiety, I always appreciate seeing it represented, especially in men. Men’s mental health is still stigmatized more than it should be, but I hope depictions like this make a dent. This book reinforces why it’s important to ask for help in all aspects of life, even when it feels embarrassing or like you are a failure. 

I also related to the parent situation as someone that is estranged from my mother. It’s difficult to throw yourself back into that, but it’s easier with a support system, which is represented well here.

And, I am very excited for the Their Freefall At Last after all the Ruby and Bennett hints and how this one ended.