2.5⭐️s rounded down. Overall it was heartwarming and had a good story line, but it just missed the mark for me. 

It felt sort of high level and not taking you *into* the story - jumping in large gaps on the timeline and with the characters - to repetitive events on Aidan’s and Holly’s relationship and her mistrust. It made it feel kind of surface level. It also didn’t make any sense why Melinda said nothing about Holly’s situation until the end especially when she assumed Holly already did. Just super convenient and not realistic or logical. 

 I got really annoyed with the weird words and nicknames like him calling her “little one” like she’s a child (which was soooo creepy when you thought about it), again with the weird “bodacious” like in the author’s other books. And as someone who’s had breast cancer, while it may be petty, a mammogram can’t find irregular cells - only a biopsy can do that. The mammo detects irregular masses and tissue changes only. The rest of what she explained was fine, but that felt a little unnecessarily sensationalized rather than being accurate.