This gets 5 stars. I absolutely adored this book through to the end. I wrote parts of this review as I was listening to the audio book.

SPOILER:

I love Alexis, but my goodness, she is so confusing near the end. Her job is to help people, which she genuinely enjoys doing. She comes across as a likeable, no bs, friendly female main character. But near the end…the way she tries to break it off with Daniel, saying in one breath she loves him and couldn’t live without him and in the next saying he wouldn’t understand her world, the way she lives, her friends, her family (this one is a little understandable), her job, as if he hasn’t been the MOST understanding guy. The way she came across was a similar attitude to her friends when they were at the inn. She wasn’t willing to try with this new relationship? She said some really awful things during a conversation with Daniel. She spent most of the book realizing that maybe the people she surrounds herself aren’t good people, spends a good portion learning how to function as a normal adult, and then she does that? No ma’am.

“If she needed to lie to them, fine. But she didn’t lie to me.” I had been waiting for it to click to Daniel that she comes across as if she’s embarrassed about him. And when he did, my heart broke for Daniel. “How can we be in love and means so much to each other if nobody in her world even knew who I was?”

But as I was reading (and also listening to Daniel understand it too), it clicked for me. I realized that attitude and blowup reminded me of another character in the book- her dad. Alexis made the realization too and when she did her whole perspective changed. I was so thrilled because I loved both of these characters so much, even with their flaws.

This is one of those books that I’m going to purchase to put on my bookshelf because it seriously is one of my favorites.

Expertly executed writing, and a cute story that makes you feel all the emotions.