A review by madlereads
Crossroads by Devney Perry

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

🤠 cowboy 
🥰 childhood friends
🥲 right person wrong time vibes
❤️ past & present 
🤭 second chances 

Really quick and super cute. I loved the chapters that gave us glimpses of their shared past summers growing up together. Overall really enjoyable, but in the long run, it doesn't stick out and I may forget details 😅

After having many shared summers growing up to years skipped, Indya is suddenly back in town and she's the new owner of the ranch much to everyone's delight. Indya's goal is to help the ranch change for the better and turn a profit even if she has to face West again. 

I adored Indya. She got shit done and she didn't shy away from all the wary ire of the ranch's employees. And they were pretty awful to her. Drinking game: take a shot for every time someone called Indya a bitch...for fairly implementing changes for the ranch to get out of the red.

I loved her big heart and dreams. Her flaw was her obligations and need to always please her father but I understood why because even from a young age, her father was in a long battle with cancer. So she just wanted to make him happy before his departure 🥺 to the point of losing herself. I'm glad she found herself again out in Montana with West.

West was sweet but eh didn't stick out. Solid support and super protective though. ❤️ that's just what Indya needs. Someone who sees her and supports her. 

Their timing as they grew into adulthood frustrated me! I was begging them to just confess in the past flashbacks. But one was always in a relationship while the other pined 😭 Talk about right person wrong time. After all this time, it finally became the right time.

I definitely cried near the end. Especially when Indya revealed all the details of exactly how and why she came to be there in Montana. 🥺

There were other spots I thought were kind of a miss. Like West's confrontation with his scammy ex was a bit anticlimatic after all that build up anticipating her drama. And I feel like some ties were left loose or glazed over
like our beef with Curtis, West's father. Dude was a mess and problematic af. Cheated on his wife, sired a kid and his poor wife had to raise said kid, and ran his ranch hospitality business to the ground and act like everyone else was the problem. Ew. Curtis when I catch you. It was only mentioned of a slow forgiveness a few years into the future


And that epilogue though! It was sooo sweet. I loved it so much. I would return to read the next book for some lighthearted fun.