Andrea Bramhall

I was given this ARC by the publisher in exchange for an Honest Review.

This is the story of Sasha and Jac. Sash is a writer who writes scripts (I liked her reason that's revealed for why she does it). Her friend Bobbi enters her (without her knowledge) in a contest with Jac's production company. She wins and that brings she and Jac together as Jac is also the director. They work together although there's quite a few stumbling blocks, including an ex.

And then there's the Fleur subplot. She's Sasha's Mom. She had cancer, lost her leg, and both smokes and eats (in edibles) quite a lot of pot.

Fleur didn't start as my favorite character, but, by the end she most definitely was.

They were all great characters. Both the mains and secondary ones like Bobbi or Jac's friends/business partners, Mags and Sophia.

And then there was the Duster. I have no doubt that a Duster from my youth (a pink two door wannabe Plymouth muscle car), is not the car referred to by Mags in the book. But, it still took me back nicely to my youngest years (and it did have quite the trunk).

It was a wicked fun read and it was nice to see slightly older main characters and characters in general in the book too.… (mais)

I kind of felt like there were two stories going on here in some ways. Genna was a lottery winner who won big money. The same day she won, she found her partner in bed with someone else. I expected drama because Ruth wanted her share. Apparently she wanted out badly enough that after one half-hearted effort, she gave up on Genna and the money. I was surprised.

I also wanted a little more of the fallout from Genna's grandmother telling the absentee dad that Genna had won money and his effort to get his hands on some. Since the grandmother had signed the paper not to disclose the money she had been gifted to ANYONE, I wanted desperately for Genna to do everything she could to follow up on the threat that anyone doing so would be sued. I at least wanted more of G-Ma's reaction to what Genna did feel comfortable doing. Instead, the narrative switched gears completely to the point that you could almost forget what led them to the cruise that was the catalyst for Genna and Abi to reveal their feelings to each other.

I adored Abi, Genna, and especially Rosie. I appreciated the way they related to each other. They were already a family before Abi and Genna got together romantically. I personally thought her jitters after seeing how people reacted to seeing PDA between them and the cracks about Rosie were more than understandable since she was just learning about that particular prejudice from a personal standpoint. She was just coming out, so I don't hold her panicking against her.

I'm actually wavering between a 4 and 5 star rating. I want to go with a 5 simply because of the characterizations. But I have to go with the 4 because of my problems with the narrative as mentioned above.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.… (mais)