What a lovely romance. It's refreshing to read a book with a mature FMC and MMC. It really changes the whole dynamic—these are people with experiences and lives beyond each other and their own little worlds. Nora, raising her children as a newly single parent after her ex leaves them; Leo, grieving his mother and learning about being a "real person." You couldn't help but root for them as they tend to their wounds and tenderly open up to each other. And even the

miscommunication

trope was handled in a way that didn't feel infantile to me, as it so often does, so points for that!

I enjoy the single mom, writer's life perspective and the self-referential meta-Hallmark-movie-ness of it all but I was expecting a little more depth to that aspect. Something a little more subversive. There are a couple of tropes here I don't enjoy and pacing that didn't quite work for me. An enjoyable, fast, meta-Hallmark-movie read with a few amusing and relatable lines and scenes.