Thank you so much to Berkley Romance, Netgalley, and PRH Audio for providing an advanced copy of this! All thoughts and opinions are still my own.

This is definitely one of those contemporary stories that won't work for everyone. In the vane of You Again by Kate Goldbeck, this story spans many, many years. You follow these two characters as they meet, fall apart, reach highs, and some very low lows. All against the backdrop of their mutual friends' big life events (engagement, wedding, housewarming, baby shower, etc).

While this has a wonderful, slow burn romance, this definitely has a contemporary feel given how much character growth we get from both MCs throughout the years.

I loved how this story explored the evolution of relationships throughout adulthood. Not just romantic relationships, but familial and platonic as well.

One of my favorite aspects of this entire book was the female friendship between our heroine and her best friend. For so much of their early 20s they were on the same path. But at the start of the book, the directions of their life start to diverge and you get to see the evolution of that platonic love across time. The hardships, the work, the support, every messy bit. And the heroine really emphasizes that her love for her best friend is not less important than romantic love. Which was a discussion I absolutely loved.

This is definitely a slow, slow burn with the romance (we're talking in decades here). But watching these 2 find their way together was so worth it in the end.

The audiobook was perfectly narrated and overall I just had a really fantastic time reading this romance.

I definitely can't wait to see what this author does next in the romance sphere!