Review: Short and sweet!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2013
This was a cute, sweet novella. I've always enjoyed the "friends to lovers" troupe. Add in the fact that one of the characters has been secretly in love with the other for years AND is the younger brother of her best friend, and I was sold! (It's always been a dream of mine to have an older brother with cute, date-able friends. Alas, it was not to be. Hence, fiction. But I digress....)I really enjoyed this quick read. It was exactly what I was looking for to fill a few weekend hours. I liked Brighton Walsh's voice a lot, and will definitely be looking into more of her works. Both Ian and Olivia were completely believable as characters, and their relationship developed nicely. I think it's easier to have a believable relationship develop in a novella when the characters have a history; Walsh gave us just what we needed of their backgrounds to offer motivation, but did not get us bogged down in the past. Dare we hope for a story for Emma (Ian's brother and Olivia's BFF?)(I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.)