General Fiction (Adult) | Romance | Women's Fiction
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with a beguiling, lighthearted story about fresh starts, second chances and true love.
When Harper Shaw’s life falls apart, she knows it’s time for a change. She removes everything that doesn’t spark joy—from her soul-sucking job to eating kale to making lists—and sets off for the last place she was happy, Lake Tahoe (who wouldn’t feel good there, right?) to fulfill her dream of opening her own bakery.
With her Sugar Pine Bakery in between a tavern, owned by sexy, grumpy Bodie Campbell, and a bookstore, run by her new BFF, she feels a peace she’s never experienced since…well, forever.. Then she meets Ivy, a teenage runaway, who barrels into her heart. She sees a lot of herself in Ivy and takes her under her wing, but the teenager has secrets…
When those secrets explode, it changes Harper’s new world, and she’ll learn, it’s never too late to start over, it’s never too late to figure out your life, and best of all, it’s never too late to let yourself believe in love.
5+ STARS
Hilarious beginning..starting with the way it was written to joy chucking Harper and and then Velma. And seriously? I'm giggling at Ham's antics in the very first chapter. This story had the humor I was hoping for both in the way it was written and how some people thought and spoke. It also had a boatload of emotions that weren't sappy but totally relatable. The non-romance, romance between Bodie and Harper kept things interesting and I liked her suspicion and down right hostility when it comes her early encounters with him. I liked that it started graduating to friendship and kept going.
Savor. Just Savor, is what I wanted to do. I loved it that much. Even though I knew I had a a bunch of other books clamoring that I promised to read by a certain date. Help me, I've fallen into this book and I don't want out.
Bodie, Harper and Ivy steal the show. Well, so does Ham in a more minor way. I liked that we get Bodie, Harper and Ivy's P.O.V.'s. Adding in Bodie's
wild, intrusive, loving but often hovering family out of his business is another thing that keeps him pretty busy too. He says too busy to get to caring about people but boy, his actions show a very different man.
Shay and her abuela are not shy people either and made me smile and shake my head more than once.
Harper truly was a sweetheart with a big heart and no one in the story has ever encountered anyone like her before. More than one person she helped wanted to know what the catch was when she did something good. With her there never is a catch but they will learn.
Ivy had quite the secret, which I liked how it was revealed. It definitely upsets the apple cart for a while. But I liked how the story ended and the Epilogue just finished it off the best. I wanted to be able to give it more stars.
“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”
-NETGALLEY-
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