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Evangeline moves to another country discovering love and herself in this disappointing adult contemporary romance.
I either love or dislike Samantha Young books. Unfortunately, this was a hard miss for me. Evie annoyed me to no end. Her treatment of Roane as her friend / boy toy was problematic. Roane’s infatuated for no reasons school boy routine was equally annoying. Their romance was not believable, and certainly not their future. The romance world could use a good age gap romance, but Roane and Evie were not #relationshipgoals by any means.
Additionally, Evie was all up in everyone’s business. In a lot of ways, this story reminded me of Jane Austen’s Emma. It’s the one story I’ve rarely liked – the do-gooder with a heart of gold spending all their time “fixing” the people around them while coming to learn a lesson of their own. If you love Emma (or something similar), you’ll probably enjoy this book.
tl;dr A big miss for me with an unlikable romance and a groan worthy main character.