Publisher: TRM Publishing
Once, Julie dreamed of a life filled with love and laughter. Now, in her mid-forties, she faces a starkly different reality. She's single, lonely, and reeling from breaking her hard-earned sobriety in front of her family and friends.
Opting for self-recovery over romance, Julie dives into planning her best friend Kate’s wedding. However, sharing this task with the irritatingly cheerful best man, single dad Luke, proves to be an unexpected challenge.
As Luke’s persistent kindness chips away at her icy exterior, a friendship forms, stirring a longing she’d sworn to suppress. But with self-forgiveness as her biggest hurdle, and her past ready to sabotage her future, can Julie confront the shame and trauma that have darkened so much of her life and find the courage to love again? Or will her demons shatter both her and Luke’s hearts in the process?
Firstly thank you to Rchels Random Resources, TRM Publishing and Jamie Anderson for having me on this tour and sending me a copy of the book.
Ok so I found this book a little slow to begin with but I think that's because when we first meet Julie she was not exactly being the most likeable of people and until I got to know her a bit that put me off her. Once we got to know Julie a little more I really loved her, She is such a relatable character because she isn't perfect, she has moments where the reader just won't like her because of her actions and I absolutely loved that about her. She never thinks she's perfect and she completely owns her flaws and I really enjoyed that Jamie Anderson has written her like that.
I really loved the emails that broke up the chapters, we kept getting hints about Julie and Luke's friendship having a bump in it from them but we don't get to find out why until much later but those emails just drove me to want to read quicker to find out what she did!
I found Julie and Luke's interactions together so cute, I thought they fit together so well despite seeming such opposites and the changing dynamic in their friendship/relationship felt really organic and I loved it. I really loved seeing how Julie's relationships with everyone in her life changed over the course of the book and she had a really fulfilling character arc, i saw so much growth from her from beginning to end. I definitely think I'm going to look for more books by Jamie Anderson because she writes very realistic and relatable characters and gives them some heady issues to resolve throughout the book. Whilst this is listed as a RomCom I'm not sure that's what it is, we do get the romance running throughout it but it feels so much more than that and I think it does it a disservice to list it as one.
Krystina xx
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