Book Smart Kate

Book: 🌟🌟

The star-crossed lovers concept of this novel’s description drew me in – exes find they are both starting new jobs in London simultaneously and rekindle their romance on the eve of their respective first days. But their first days go catastrophically wrong, and they both find themselves trapped in the middle of something bigger than they could have imagined.

Unfortunately, the reality of the book did not live up to the intriguing description. I struggled with the lack of character development and how the story was constructed, making it difficult to root for Ward and Camille individually and as a couple. A considerable portion of the story unfolds in letters passed between the couple; however, only a handful of times do we actually learn what was written in the letters, making me feel like a critical portion of the narrative was absent from the reader’s experience. Additionally, this was a dual POV book with one POV written in the first person and the other in the third person, which was incredibly distracting.

I hope this book finds people it connects with, but it was a miss for me. Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Romance for the free advanced copy for which I’ve provided my honest review.