Thank you so much to Berkley Romance for an advance copy of the eARC and free copy of the book!
Thank you so much to PRH Audio for the complimentary audio of this book!

This book will be out July 16, 2024.

Holy moly! I knew Jessica Joyce was going to be one of my favorite authors after reading and loving You With a View but this book just solidified my feelings towards her writing. HER BRAIN! Like the gasping, the cheering, the smiling, the laughing, the sniffling, all the feelings you want to get while reading a romance book. I knew from early buzz that I was going to love this book but I was not expecting to fall so hard.

Eli. Eli. Eli. Have I said holy moly yet? Because holy moly this man. He has heart eyes for Georgia from start to end. My heart just went pitter patter for him and even though I know this was going to give me an HEA, I was so wrapped up in the journey to get there. Him telling Georgia, "This is going to mean something to me." when they were contemplating on taking their sexual tension to the next level. GAH! And if there is one thing Jessica excels at is the banter. It truly comes across in this book. There were so many moments that I giggled my way through the dialogue. He never shied away from his feelings, "Fuck, the way I wanted you. I don't know how anyone cannot look at me and not see it." SWOOOON!

Georgia. Peaches. This woman. She felt so relatable that she knew if she would be around her ex, it would end badly. She was so vulnerable and did not want to go through the heartbreak that she knew was coming. She was so afraid to get sucked into this vortex of Eli Mora. And being in close corners did not help in the matter. "I did my best to cling now, but those little flashes of further and future and forever snuck in, revealing what my deepest, messiest self wants: Eli in every era." The journey she went through the book was so fun to see from the outsider view. She had this big change with work that she was excited about but at what cost? She was so scared to lose these relationships with her friends and as I think a lot of adults go through, we fear that change of growing up and moving on.

I know I focused most of this review discussing the love interest but I also want to say I love Adam - our groom, best friend to both & champion of them as a couple. This book had a bunch of side characters that did not feel overwhelming and just added to the story. There was a scene that had me cackling between Georgia, Eli and Georgia's friend Jamie - once again the banter was chef's kiss. And I loved all the little moments of them trying to get this wedding to happen but these roadblocks keep happening. Which in the end it only brought our love interests closer together.

I paired my reading with the audio and once again Kyla Garcia knocked it out of the park. I loved listening to her narration & her tone just makes it such a fun listen.

This review is not going to do the book justice but if you were a fan of Jessica's writing in her debut and just a love of romance novels, please read this and scream about it with me.

PS: Chapter 34 - BROKE ME. How dare you Jessica!

Sampling of my favorite quotes:
"She had fake pepperonis all over her face, and she was still the most beautiful person in the room. She rearranged everything in my body when she ran into me. Again, literally and figuratively."

"It's weird seeing your friends have other friends, and it made me feel far away again, you know?"

"What are we doing tonight?"
"Everything."

"I'm going to knock on your door later. Please answer it."