Review: Until Next Time

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It’s official. I’m totally hopeless at love, parenting and life.

Single mom? Check.

Massive debt? Check.

A sassy daughter who inherited my gift of snark?

Ugh. Check.

I work three jobs, go to school, and do my best to be in my kid’s life. Men are the last thing on my mind. I wouldn’t have time to look at a man even if he fell into my lap.

Until he does. Thanks to my spawn who keeps calling some famous relationship expert, airing my disastrous life in her podcast.

That’s when Zach, my brother’s best friend in high school appears. I used to have a major crush on him, but I figured he forgot about me.

Zach who tragically lost his wife some time ago, and now, he’s looking to save everyone—including me.

A super hot fling with my old flame, with a broken man?

Double check.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: February 2022

Mature content: yes

Review: Despite the raving reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, this book left me oddly indifferent. I can't say it's poorly written, but it's supposed to be the first in a series and then when you start reading it you feel like you've landed in the middle of an ongoing story, and a complicated one at that - lots of secondary characters (so many I lost track at some point), several sub-plots, and scenes that seen to change drastically before you have time to even realise it (once or twice I doubled back to see if I had missed a page because of an unfinished sentence or a broken sequence of events). 

Following the same rationale, the romance between Zach and Autumn is a mix of new and old. They've met in the past, Zach suddenly realises she's in financial trouble (through a series of coincidences too far-fetched to be realistic), practically falls in love with her before he they even reunite - and the rest is history. 

Not to mention a few parts of the plot, and most especially the ending, seem to have been "stolen" from Sleepless in Seattle. 

This was my first book by this author and now I'm seriously on the fence about wether to try another one to see if it works better for me or just leave it all together...

  

Happy readings!

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