This is more of a 3.5 star rating.
Josie is a very frustrating character. I really liked her in Forever My Girl, but started to get frustrated with her as a secondary character and with this latest insight into the lives and loves of 4225 West and group, I am beginning to wonder if the first book was a fluke.
In the first book and Liam's origin story, Josie was confident and funny. Now, she is whiny and petulant.
She knows better than anyone how things can be twisted she told Katelyn not to believe everything she sees when she was falling for Harrison. So I have to wonder why Josie is so quick to believe a book written without Liam's knowledge or permission, based on diaries of an unstable obsessed woman and uncorroborated interviews. From a secret child that isn't his to Sam watching Josie while pregnant, the book is apparently a page Turner that has Josie completely swindled and wretching in the toilet.

Liam was a bit disappointing in this book also. He got too easily swept up in the LA life to do some damage control and explain things to Josie before she found out about them. He definitely seemed to want to have his cake and eat it too in this book.

It was good that they really had it out, it seemed to be a catharsis they needed.
Josie's pregnancy was predictable once she found out the adoption wasn't going through.
Although Nick didn't feature prominently in this book much, I still don't like him as a character and while I get from Noah's side why he'd want to have Nick in his life, I can empathise with Liam.

Liam's mother being part of this book was nice. It was good to read her having a relationship with Noah and being there for Josie. I'm very glad she left her controlling husband. No one deserves to be left more than Sterling Westbury.

As always, it is great to be in Beaumont with this cast of characters and I look forward to more.