ginaardito's review
4.0
Jenny and Luke are two people dealing with devastating loss when they're brought together by the wedding of her sister to his best friend. Sparks fly, but Jenny's still reeling after her husband's death and Luke is dealing with a bitter teenage son and a meddling pal who holds a lot of animosity toward Jenny. While I really enjoyed the first 2/3 of the story, the author rushed through the established conflicts, only to add a new wrinkle toward the end that was too cliched, which dimmed my enthusiasm. Had Ms. Devine chosen to more fully explore Jenny's PTSD, her plans for the future, and Luke and Liam's unresolved issues about Mara's death (all of these conflicts were resolved too fast and too soon), the story would have been meatier in the middle, eliminating the need to tack on that last twist scene at the wedding that fell so flat. Because of that last twist, I lost the respect I'd gained for Jenny and Luke - who both gave up too easily, and the ending of the story left loose ends that were twirled together but never fully tied. A nice read that could have been so much more.
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