I feel like the majority of us bookish girls can relate to Gabbi. We’re just girls that want to read all day and not work, have booktok/bookstagram be our jobs, have our book boyfriends become reality, travel the world, have our significant others read our books (and enact them 😉), and live next door to our besties 😘.

I loved the tropes in this book. We got best friends brother-in-law, vacation romance, one bed, best man x maid of honor, friends to lovers,cooking lessons, bi fmc, and no third act breakup, and of course, found family !!! I loved the friends to lovers. I'm a sucker for those, and the cooking lessons where she would bring her books and she would read as well as plan their travels together. I loved the little detail that she always wanted the nickname Elle but it never stuck so he started calling her that 🥹, and this is what she said “He’d called me Elle. Never, in all the years, had I imagined how much I’d like it spilling from his lips. I knew now that there was a reason no one else had ever called me it. I’d simply been saving it for him.” Plus, I loved seeing all of the other couples as well as our future couple, charlotte & daniel. I cannot wait to complete this series, and I will have read all of Jennifer Chipmans released books!! And I will be happily waiting for her next release 😘.


Favorite quotes/scenes:

“I liked to think that Gabbi was like the night sky—so fucking beautiful to look at. Even when you didn’t see her, she still somehow affected you, just like the moon and the tides.”

“She belonged among the stars, because she shined so bright, but I was glad to have her down here, anyway, where I could see her light.”

“How had this beautiful specimen of a human decided she wanted me? I was a fool for her, and I didn’t deserve her. I didn’t, but I couldn’t survive without her.”

“Stop being so fucking cute. I don’t think my heart can take it.”
“Yeah, well. You’re going to have to be careful before I steal it from you.”
“Maybe you already have.”

“You’re essential. You light up my life like a thousand stars in the Milky Way. A billion. You bring all of that joy and warmth and it’s fucking contagious, sweetheart, how much you make me want to smile just by being around you. When you have a camera in your hands and you focus on getting that perfect shot? You stick your tongue out to the side when you focus… And I can’t take my eyes off of you for one moment. All I know is I can’t let go of you.”

“From that very first moment when I listened to your heartbeat, and you accused me of not being an actual doctor. Even then, I knew.”
“What are you saying?”
“I love you, Gabrielle.”
“I knew it.”
“Will you shut up and let me kiss you?”

“Did you know otters hold hands while they sleep so they don’t drift apart?”
“What?”
“I think it’s cute. They don’t want to be separated from the one they love, even when they sleep. Very romantic, those otters.”
“Are you asking me to hold your hand while we sleep, sweetheart?”
“Mhm.”
“I’ll never let you go.”
“Good.”

“I can’t wait to build our dream home together. And marry you. Fuck, Gabrielle. I can’t wait to call you my wife.”
“I can’t wait for everything with you, Hunter Tobias Sullivan.” “Told you I’d make you Mrs. Sullivan.”