2.5 rounded up

I really wanted much more from this book. There was so much potential for deep, meaningful character study with issues of grief and PTSD but these things were barely discussed. It was like this person who meant so much to the characters - one of whom was her 11 year old child - was completely forgotten about, with the exception of the money that she left. Was just so much more superficial than I had hoped. ( )

4.5 stars

We are kind of in love with this book. We are in love with the love story (it is a love story rather than just a romance), the people and everything else. It is a book that wraps itself around you and warms many places within you.

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This book had so much going on. There was a bit of a age difference romance going on, each of the main characters had some serious baggage to wade through, there was also a bit of 'family member dies and relative meets the neighbor and falls in love' going on. Although, in this novel that is ramped up to 11.

Autumn's cousin (who was more like a sister) Becki dies, leaving an 11 year old child, Gabe alone. In her will she gives co-custody of Gabe to both Autumn and a neighbor who has been a guiding force for the both of them, Catherine.

They are totally different people. City vs. Country. Loner vs. a person who seems very much to be a people person, etc. And yet, they're thrown together to be parents for this precocious kid and find themselves drawn to one another.

I really liked a lot of the novel. Honestly, the only part that I really didn't love was the fact that the issues that Autumn had with some of the twists in the book never really got a fair shake from the other characters. She sorta gets told by secondary characters to 'grow up', that life isn't black and white, but shades of grey. Perhaps I'm too much of rules sort of person, but, I would have liked her issues to be better addressed j just a little bit by the end of the book, instead of having the thrilling ending that we got.

I received this book via Netgalley thanks to Bold Strokes Books. ( )