Usually romances where we're constantly doing flashbacks are very annoying to me because I just want to get to the current story, and I did have a couple of moments like that with this book but honestly? Most of the time I really enjoyed the storyline no matter which stage of the timeline we were in. The set up of Darby writing a letter to Leo that she never intended to send but her sister sending it to him anyway because cry for help combined with him showing up on her wedding day and her running away with him? WHAT A TREAT. I didn't realize that it would be a roadtrip story as well? I thought they'd get back to Pacific Shores and it would just be figuring their lives out from there, but I thought the road trip aspect was a nice touch.

It was also VERY DRAMATIC. We find out toward the end that

young Darby got in a car accident, which is how her dad finds out where she is because the hospital calls her. While she's in the hospital, she learns that she had a miscarriage, but she hadn't even realized that she was pregnant yet?

and even though there was a lot of set up to the fact that Darby didn't have a choice in going back to her parents and whatnot, I was still somehow shocked at that reasoning?!

My one gripe: the way that Leo talks as an adult and as a teenager are almost exactly the same. This is perfectly believable with grown-up Leo, but there were multiple times where teenaged Leo was talking and I was like "....there is no way this is a teenager." Which would make some of those flashback scenes feel a little clunky in the dialogue.