A review by lawfullygoodbooks
The Co-op by Tarah DeWitt

3.0

I am a huge Tarah DeWitt fan but this one just didn’t land as well with me as her others have. I liked the story and I thought the tropes, marriage of convenience and second chance, were well used. I liked the relationship between the main characters and it was interesting to see the way their relationship now was compared with their relationship in the past. The dual POVs and the differing timelines helped keep the story moving, though there were definitely pacing issues throughout the story. It felt like we lost the HGTV of it all for a bit, only really coming back around to the home reno part of it at the end, which was then rushed. Also not every chapter had a header telling you when it was so it was sometimes jarring to go back and forth in time but not realize that you had. This is also a me specific complaint - I absolutely hated the names of 90% of the characters in the book to the point of distraction. That being said, I’ll still read anything Tarah DeWitt writes because I love her!