Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖 (I got bored pretty quickly and wanted to jump to something else...)
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡ (I thought the tension was lacking because it was instalust and very, very easy and low angst for them)
Romance: 💞💞💞💞 (I mean – it’s very sweet!)
Sensuality: 💋💋💋 (I liked the foreplay, but anything further faded and I like that on page...)
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 (So there’s a decent amount of foreplay the actual act fades off page)
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥
Humor: A touch
Perspective: third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? character
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together:
Cliffhanger: This ends with a happily ever after
Epilogue: Yes, six months later
Format: voluntarily read an advanced reader copy through NetGalley in e-book form
Why I chose this book: I think I got widget from NetGalley and I CANNOT say no to widgets 😆
Mains: This is a M/F relationship between a cishet hero and heroine

Should I read in order?
This is book 2 of Sullivan’s Rock Bottom Love series. I didn’t read book 2, but found this one readable alone. The mains from book 1 have page time here and the story sounds fun though so I suggest you give it a go first if you like to know all the characters! (The hero from book 1 is the brother of this book’s heroine)

Basic plot:
Jillian meets her old flame Levi and feelings immediately flare...

Give this a try if you want:
- contemporary romance
- small town setting (Smile, Michigan)
- second chance-ish
- some elements of instalust
- single mom heroine
- chef hero
- childhood friends to lovers
- easy, low angst relationship
- brother’s friend
- low steam – there’s a few kisses and one on page scene of foreplay that then fades for the actual act

Ages:
- hero is 31, heroine is 30

First line:
There were only two reasons to go to a high school reunion.

My thoughts:
Yay for a third person contemporary! I always fall into those stories so much easier than first person.

I loved the setting of this book, being from Michigan I could really appreciate these small town dynamics and adorable settings. (But I did question the line about being able to see the mountains??)

But...I love my angst. And this book had zero. The relationship between them was so, so easy. And so sweet. And some of you will really love that so I hope you give it a read. But sadly I was just soooo bored. And with it having no steam either I was just eager to reach then end.

Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: This is my first
Average rating: 3 stars
Favorite book: This one?

Content warnings: These should be taken as a minimum of what to expect. It’s very possible I have missed some.

- some remembrance of toxic ex/coparenting with an ex
Author content warnings? Didn’t see any

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex aspects, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:

 
Safe sex: 

  I don’t think it’s mentioned? The sex itself is vague/not on page so you don’t really know what’s going on 

 
How’s the consent? 

  It's good! 

 
Pregnancy/children in story? (Please note this is the best to my memory/note taking. If you see something I missed please feel free to message!) 

  Yes, the heroine has a daughter from a prior relationship and there’s a brief mention of possibly wanting more kids in the future 

 
Pg 83 – kiss
Pg 139 – kiss
Pg 149 – kiss
Pg 166 – kisses that leads to foreplay on page and then the actual act fades
Pg 204 – kiss
Pg 237 - kiss
Total pages: 272