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Book Review: The Moments we made ours by LJ Evans






Y'all already know what I'm going to say. LJ Evans wrote another masterclass of a romantic suspense novel and you need to run, not walk, and go read it!

But here's the longer version of LJ Evans is incapable of writing a book I don't love. 

One of LJ's many talents is making you feel like you are a part of the book and the characters and their family. I joked last time that Parker and Fallon really put me through it. (They did!) But that is a testament to LJ's writing skills. You feel like the characters are real, living people and therefore you are invested in them like they are your own family. 

I feel like this new series of younger characters (ha I say younger and they are in their 20's. Tell me you're in your 40's without telling me) are my nieces and nephews so this Auntie has some thoughts and at times during reading this book I wanted to sit both Beckett and Maisey down and have a CHAT. At one point I said, out loud, Beckett, my dude, we need to get you into therapy. Thankfully Beckett got with the program and once he was in he was all in. (I was proud! ) In fact, Beckett was SO far gone for Maisey since he met her, and that was so evident with their text exchanges at the beginning of every chapter. It just took him a while to catch up but when he did, he made up for lost time. And I'd like to think that that only adds to their love story, of knowing each other since they were children and building this unbreakable friendship while really building their romantic relationship as well, even if they didn't realize it at that point.

I was super happy for no third act breakup. (My pet peeve). And I was pretty proud of myself for figuring out part (not all!) of the mystery.  It had enough intrigue to keep you guessing and wondering but not so much that you were jumping at every sound in your house and couldn't sleep at night. Who am I kidding though, we all know I steamrolled through this book in an entire day because 1. I have no life and 2. HELLO ITS A NEW LJ EVANS BOOK. 3. Also, a new LJ Evans book on my birthday week?! Can life get better? I think not. At least not in the literature sense. While I wait on LJ to write the next book I think I'm going to have to reread the entire Hatley series. Because when I stared Maisey's book I thought, oh I should I read Parker and Fallon's book again to remind me of Maisey and then I realized If I did that I really should back up to Rafe and Sadie and well if I'm going to do that might as well start from the beginning. So if anyone needs me I'll be the reading the Hatley series and anxiously awaiting LJ's next amazing book!!!



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