I’ll be honest, and I hate to say it, I really struggled to get into this story.

It came out around Christmas time and when I realized it was actually set at Valentine’s Day I decided to put it on the back burner till after Christmas. I even pre-ordered if before reading much of the synopsis. I was really excited when I found out about book two. Just keep in mind you have to wait.īook one in this series, So, This is Christmas, was adorable. They are super cute together and I just want to see them happy! Overall I’d say anyone who really enjoyed “So This Is Christmas” would like this book and find it worthwhile.

I hope she comes out with a third just so I can actually have a book with them together because aww we love Arthur. I do really like her writing style and the characters so I do think it was worth a read, but I feel like we could have seen more of Arthur and Finley together and still had the same effect with the plot line. So if you don’t mind waiting to see them together and kinda being bored the whole book till you get to the happy ending then yea I’d recommend this. I feel like when romances have a sequel authors often cause the couple to have issues to support the plot, but I’d rather have no plot and have the romance. Like the whole point for me was to see more of the cute swoon-worthy couple, but instead we had them avoiding each other, all until the end where you get your classic romantic ending. Sure it had its cute moments, but Finley and Arthur had to start from square one, ignoring all that happened over Christmas. The only issue I really had with this book was that we didn’t get any more of the romance than the first book, which in my opinion defeats the point of a sequel. Not that it wasn’t good and I’m definitely not complaining that we got more of Arthur and Finley, but…idk. The characters feel real and no one is “a stupid teenager” for the sake of being a stupid teenager. There are a lot of YA contemporaries that make me feel like maybe I could actually age out of YA contemporary soon, but this series is not one of them. I got choked up at some of the advice Esha gave Finley close-ish to the end, and it had other really meaningful moments as well. But at least this was written well and didn’t feel one dimensional? I just really liked the dynamics in this and how everything developed. Even Bronwyn, who is your classic mean girl, felt well done. I also appreciated that every character felt very real. I liked seeing the “after happy ever after” kind of plot, and it made me ship Arthur and Finley way more by the end of this one than I even did by the end of the first book. Such an incredibly sweet duology! I honestly didn’t understand why it needed a sequel, because the first book was great as a standalone, but book 2 actually turned out to be worthwhile.

So this is love tracy andreen