I made a goal this year to clear out my NetGalley backlog, and I am kicking myself now. This one shouldn't have sat on my shelf for so long. 

📕 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

📙 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: Standalone

📗 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀: E-book on Kindle. ARC courtesy of NetGalley

📘 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲: LGBTQIA+ Romance

📔 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀: Opposites attract, autism representation, slow burn, flowers as a love language.

📖 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Opal wins the lottery. And like so many things in her life, she uses that money on a whim to buy a flower farm, where she believes she will live out her days making art. But when she gets there she meets Pepper, the rightful owner of the farm. The two decide to share space and work toward helping to save the struggling farm.

🌟 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: This book left me absolutely raw.

Late Bloomer was my first Mazey Eddings book - and I am impressed. Opal and Pepper are a lesson in creating excellent, relatable and layered characters. Opal is this heavily emotional whirlwind of color and energy. Pepper is reserved, scared, and deeply settled into her routine and her grief. The dual POV shows they're both extremely self-aware, and their internal doubts were relatable and heartbreaking at the same time.

This is one of those books you literally can't wait for the two main characters to find happiness. I wanted so badly for them  both to have peace. The entire book was on this beautiful backdrop of flowers, which made it even more romantic.

I have a few other Mazey Eddings books on my shelf that I can't wait to dig into now.

 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹: 3/5 🌶🌶🌶

𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝑹𝑪 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘.