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TROPES:
✧ boyfriend’s best friend
✧ friends to lovers
✧ right person, wrong time
✧ dual POV
✧ slow burn
✧ acts of service as a love language
✧ co-parenting a dog
✧ emotional healing

Dog tax: Woofarine deserves a mention of it’s own

SIX STARS. YES, SIX. I WILL NOT BE TAKING QUESTIONS. 🫠🤍

All it took was one concert night and one decision for Larissa to end up with Mike instead of Chris. And just like that, we got a whole book of right person, wrong time, unbearable yearning and a man who deserved the world.

Chris is genuinely one of the most thoughtful MMCs I’ve ever read. His love language is acts of service and the way he quietly cares for Larissa, remembers her allergies and steps in whenever Mike falls short? I WAS UNWELL. 😭

The fact that Chris has to love her from afar because she’s dating his best friend? THE ANGST. THE EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.

But what made this book so special was that it wasn’t just about romance. Larissa has her own complicated past, family trauma and generational patterns she has to unlearn. Watching her discover what she deserves and learn to break those cycles made her feel so real.

And Larissa and Chris? Their friendship is the foundation of everything. Their shared love of books, their conversations, the way they understand each other, and even co-parenting woofarine together🥹 Their connection felt so natural because they genuinely knew each other.

Abby Jimenez has this incredible way of writing love, grief and healing so authentically. The yearning felt earned, the pain felt real and the love? SO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.

Chris deserved his own six-star rating, honestly.

If you love a slow burn, friends-to-lovers, a ridiculously attentive MMC and the kind of yearning that makes you scream into your pillow, PLEASE READ THIS BOOK.

And remember: Sometimes the right person really does come along at the wrong time. 🤍

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