"My first Elsie Silver book turned out to be a disappointment. Yay me 🥲😭

✔️ Small town romance
✔️ Single dad
✔️ Brother's best friend
✔️ He falls first

I'll keep it short and simple cause I can't with this book. It's so bland, there is no life to it! Just meaningless words on paper imo. It has no actual plot as it's a character driven story but there is no character development, especially for the fmc.

I found Rosie to be annoying. Like why does she have to pick unnecessary arguments just cause she's quirky? I was over her personality in a few pages. Ford is nice but that's about it. He's just nice and nothing else. Tho I did like his relationship with his daughter and how he worked on it. The banter between Rosie and Ford makes no sense to me. It feels so forced and written for the sake of it. The chemistry between these two is non-existent. I don't even wanna start on the spice. 🤢

I skimmed a fair bit in the last 100 pages cause I was dying of boredom. Sure there are some sweet moments but not enough to save the book.

I hear that the author's Chestnut Springs series is far better, but after this reading experience am gonna have to push it down on my tbr."