Author: G. Benson
Genre: Contemporary Romance 🌶️
Tropes: Single Parent, Grief, Workplace
Series: N/A
Pages: 372
Published: August 12th, 2015
Format: ebook (kindle), audiobook (audible)
Started: 07-01-2024
Finished: 07-04-2024
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synopsis
A successful anaesthetist, Anna is focused on herself, her career, and her girlfriend. Everything changes abruptly when her brother’s and sister-in-law’s deaths devastate her and her family. Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn’t even like. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children battling with their grief while managing her own.
Filled with self-doubt, Anna feels as if she’s making a mess of the entire thing, especially when she collides with a long-legged stranger. Anna barely has time to brush her teeth in the morning, let alone to date a woman—least of all one who has no idea about the two kids under her care.
Just when Anna finally starts to feel as if she’s getting some control of the situation, the biggest fight begins and Anna really has to step up once and for all.
rant
- Absolutely loved the characters in this book
- the romance in this was great – even though it was a little fast paced it was still on the angstier side
- The way Anna dealt w/ her grief felt so real and was completely understandable
- The kids were so fricking adorable ‐ although Ella acted more mature than any 6-year-old I’ve ever known
- Lane and Kym were such good side characters and they helped to lighten the mood a bit
- I felt so bad for Kym though and I wish that the timeline of this book was longer so we could watch her find love too ‐ she deserved it
- The only real beef I had w/ this book was w/ the writing style ‐ the way the author wrote sentences felt backwards at times and had me a little confused ‐ it messed w/ the flow of the reading if that makes sense ‐ there were also a few grammatical errors but obviously I don’t care but someone might
- This book took me so long to read ‐ it was easy to get distracted while reading this ‐ I also had to stop multiple times bc it got me too emotional ‐ I teared up multiple times and actually cried a little 🙈 ‐ I also got pretty angry and frustrated w/ the antagonist too I was all over the place lmao
- Cathy lowkey another type of evil for what she did to those poor kids and Anna
- Would read again
noted & quoted
- anything w/ Ella and Toby ‐ they were so sweet
- Anna’s first sleepover @ Lane’s
- Anna winning her case
- Anna and Lane’s elevator makeup
