My review:
3.75⭐
Genre ~ contemporary romance
Series ~ Lake Starlight #3
Others in the series ~ The Problem with Second Chances #1, The Issue with Bad Boy Roommates #2
Publication date ~ August 8, 2023
Page Count ~ 264
Audio length ~7 hours 13 minutes
Narrators ~ Aiden Snow, Emily Woo Zeller
POV ~ dual 1st
Featuring ~ high school sweethearts, close proximity, enemies-to-lovers, runaway bride, flashbacks, small town, will they or won’t they, slow burn, no cheating, second chance, some steamage
Lance & Kenzie were high school sweethearts, but made a decision to break up before they left for college. Now it’s 8 years later and Kenzie is set to marry Lance’s nemesis, and a real douche canoe, Will, and somehow Lance ends up being their wedding planner.
The tension was so high when these two were near each other. Although weird that Lance was planning her wedding it was cute that he obviously knew way more about Kenzie than her tool of a fiance did….that should of told her something right there. I actually liked Lance more than Kenzie for that reason…among others.
We have the miscommunication from college that I could do without, but I didn’t find what happened to be too bad, I mean it wasn’t great, but there could have been something worse.
This was a slow burn and I kinda wish it wasn’t. Although the story is about their journey back to each other it took longer than I would have liked, but when they finally got themselves figured out I love that they were all in. I just hate that so much time was wasted, but at least they’re only in their mid 20’s.
Overall, not my favorite of the series, but well written and still a great story. Yes a standalone, but Brinley and Van from book 2, and, cousin, Easton, all play huge parts in the story, so you might as well start at the beginning. I still need to go back and read the whole Bailey and Greene series myself, I really wish I had read those before this series.
*Thanks to the authors and Valentine PR for the ARC. I am voluntarily leaving my honest review*
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I should not still be hung up on my high school girlfriend.
I’m a billionaire, with a penthouse in New York City, a private plane, and was recently crowned one of Manhattan’s most eligible bachelors.
She’s engaged to my rival. A real prick of a guy whose family is about as famous as mine. So, pictures of the happy couple are plastered everywhere, and it’s driving me insane.
The last time I spoke to her was my freshman year of college, and I never imagined I’d bump into her at a crowded restaurant in the busiest city in the world. But fate had other plans, and when I innocently suggest that the press wouldn’t bother with her wedding plans if she held it in our small Alaskan town where we grew up, I had no idea she’d take me seriously.
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