Maybe I'll change this rating when I get some time and distance from my experience of this book, because – idk if it's my period? is it a total lack of sleep? – but I was full-on sobbing through a couple of chapters of this. It was everything I want in a second-chance romance - full, realistic, mutual mistakes; growth and hard work; and a 100% belief that they belong together and that they'll be happy together this time. It helps that both Georgia & Eli are such sympathetic characters, whose priorities and worries and hang-ups you immediately get, and whose joy & peace you're rooting for. It helps tons that their friends are so lovely, because there's parts early in this that I thought 'are they kind of making this worse for these leads, whom I love?', and that kind of melts away because you're rooting for their happiness too – plus they so CLEARLY fucking adore Georgia & Eli, my gosh. I also think that what helps best of all is that they get! therapy!!!!!!!! 

It's mean of me, but I did spend a couple of big moments in this book thinking about how much "Happy Place" by Emily Henry sucked. That's OK. It made me love this book even more; like, what a great friend group, what a great way of having characters learn and grow up and adore each other realistically. Maybe that's contributing to the 5-star rating?? It's also OK because that meanness only lasted for a second as I let myself get totally socked in the stomach with my emotional reaction to every damn thing. 

WONDERFUL. An immediate addition to my re-readable romance list.