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TROPES

🏄 Instant Attraction

🏄 Forced Proximity

🏄 Slow Burn

🏄 “Friends” to Lovers

🏄 No 3rd Act Break Up

🏄 Dual POV

I love Joss and Wes’s story. From meeting on a flight to the frequent run-ins that prove the universe is on their side, you can’t help but root for them. It went from “Will they meet again?” to “How much longer until they take a chance?” very quickly, and it was great to read. Despite their seemingly contradictory views on relationships, they complement each other well and provide exactly what the other person needs. Because their journey comes from both perspectives, it reinforces the constant push and pull between them and that they were inevitable in both their eyes. 

I particularly enjoyed the storyline between Joss and her mother. As someone who is estranged from my mother, it was nice to see something similar reflected in a book. We have incredibly different reasons for our choices, but seeing someone else stand their ground and remain firm in their boundary is so encouraging to me. Sometimes you question if you’ve made the right decision, or if time has changed something, but Joss’s story reinforced to me that I made a strong choice and nothing has to change that. 

I wasn’t quite sure where the last few chapters were going, since we had what felt like an “established” endpoint as a romance book, but we needed them to set up the next. I’m glad that plot development came here rather than at the start of the second book. It felt like a nice bow on our time in Australia.