Thanks to Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for giving me early access to this title to read in return for a review.

This was the first Emma Lord that I have read and it won't be the last. 

The Break-Up Pact is set in a seaside tourist town an hour and a half outside of New York City and follows two former friends, June, who returned to town to run a tea shop on the board walk after the death of her sister, and Levi, who's come back home to finish his Great American Novel. These two long lost friends are not only connected by their grief over the loss of Annie, June's Sister and Levi's good friend, but their recent very public break-ups. Emma has been dubbed by social media as "crying-girl" after her viral breakup with her reality-start ex, and Levi is all over the tabloids because of his Fiancée's recent infidelity. What are two old friends suppose to do other than make a pact to fake date?  What could go wrong?

There is so much that I liked about this book. This pacing was fantastic and the story hit all the beats it was suppose to, which I always appreciate. The characters were realistic and had emotional depth. They all felt like the author spent a lot of time figuring out who they were and what they were like deep down inside. I'm always a sucker for the fake dating trope, and this one is done really well. It gives you just enough to leave you wanting more, without making you want to push the characters together yelling "kiss already"

The only thing that I didn't like is I found the ending a little drawn out. We had our big climax, but then the story just kept going. I was glad to see that all the characters got their happy endings, but it felt long and didn't include the part that I really wanted to see.

That said, I still loved this book and plan on reading more from Emma Lord in the future.