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- Overall: ⭐⭐
- Characters: 👍👍👍
- Spicy: 🌶️
- Writing: 🖊️🖊️
- Narration: 🗣️🗣️
I am a huge fan of Rebecca Yarros. I mean:
Enough said. It is when author’s think that more characters add more depth. They end up adding seventeen characters, five back stories, three scenario’s where they are just in a dream like state- that it really just becomes annoying. So, let’s get into the overall plot line of the book.
Plot
Georgia Stanton has to start over after she goes through a divorce because her husband was a piece of shit. So now she has to go to her late great-grandmother’s estate in Colorado (we love a good Colorado story don’t we? It is just gorgeous there!). Her grandmother was a famous author who did not get to finish her final book and low-and-behold, guess who gets to ghostwrite the rest of her grandmothers books? Noah Harrison. Yes he is delicious to look at. Yes he is a famous author. And yes-he is as cocky as ever.
Noah is at the top of his game. He has book deals. Movie deals. He is even a runner…*insert eyeroll*. However, when his manager/friend approaches him to finish writing the book from his favorite author, Scarlett Stanton,-how can he pass up the offer? He knows he can knock the ending out of the park but he did not think that he would have to deal with a stubborn, judgey, cynical great-granddaughter-in walks Georgia.
So Georgia and Noah read the drafted book and the letter’s left behind by Scarlett and they realize that this book is based on real life of the love story of her grandmothers during World War II. Georgia knows that love story that her grandmother was writing about never works out, and while the chemistry between her and Noah is tangible-you can walk into the room and wipe the steam off your face… Georgia is determined to never be broken hearted like her grandmother.
P.S. Georgia’s mom makes a brief showing in the book and man-she is a piece of work but it really does show how much she is determined to honor the most apparent mother figure in her life growing up.
Over All Thoughts
The reason why I gave the book overall two stars despite loving the dual timelines, the dual love stories between Noah and Georgia and Scarlett and Jameson? Honestly, I think that it was just a little too mushy for me. This is a classic romance novel with a little bit of comedy. Now, I do love Jameson-he was my favorite character. He had the most relatable and charismatic character development. His love for Scarlett-beyond words. Like panty dropping love that we can only hope to ge
“I didn’t know how much I loved you until I had to wake up, day after day, knowing there was no chance I’d see you smile or hear you laugh, or hell, hear you shout at me.”
“I forget my name when you touch me.”
However-Georgia had the best quotable lines. Like:
“Love, real love, was never a waste.”
“She didn’t believe in happily ever afters—but she was learning to believe in second chances.”
Come on! Like- her inner turmoil of battling what she wanted and what she thought the right thing to do was worse then a Tuesday night after overeating at Taco Bell.
I wish that Georgia could have been more like her grandmother. Scarlett was a bad ass women who literally fought. Fought to go outside the box. Fought for Jameson and their love. Fought to be taken seriously as a women in WWII. Georgia had a difficult time between knowing what strength is and what stubborn is and I found it kind of annoying.
“Please don’t treat me as less than an equal because I chose this family twice. If you wanted a wife who would do nothing more than cook your meals, warm your bed, and have your babies, then you chose the wrong woman. Don’t mistake my sacrifices for smiling compliance.”
That is my baddie right there! She was way before her time in the same way that Jameson was way before his time in the love aspect of the book.
Themes That Hit Me Hard
- The cost of war (both emotional and literal)
- Generational trauma and healing
Would I Recommend It?
If you love:
✔️ Emotional reads
✔️ WWII historical fiction
✔️ Dual timelines
✔️ Romance that would make normal people makes you cry in public
Then sure-give it a shot
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