Surprisingly good. Just when I thought everything had become predictable, there were still a few unexpected revelations. A bit longer than I usually like for a fiction book, but it went down surprisingly easily. ( )

Innovative Use Of Both Duology And Story-Within-A-Story. There is so much to like about this book, but I suspect that later reviews will hit all you need to know about just how strong at least one of the two romances here is - one is clearly one of those life-altering once-in-a-lifetime loves which we mostly see play out via two books, the other romance is a more contemporary (40 years ago anyway, which is still more recent than the 80 yrs ago for the first romance) tale of two people coming together via unusual circumstance. But it is truly the duology/ story-within-a-story structure that I want to highlight here, as this is what truly propels this book and makes it everything that it eventually becomes. I'd never seen this particular approach done - yes, there are other books with stories-within-stories, but this was truly the first time I'd ever encountered a duology done this way, and Davis manages to make all *three* books - the duology plus this actual book we're actually reading "in real life" - truly compelling due to the nature of how she has crafted this. Simply superb, and truly, truly well executed. And yes, the actual romance aspects of this are well done, as are the heart-wrenching dramatics. You want a book for "Most Anticipated of 2023"? This very book had better be on that list. Very much recommended. ( )

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There's so much I could say about this book, but won't because it's one that the reader truly needs to discover for themselves.

It was fast paced and totally engrossing, until those pages where the mystery and intrigue were over taken by far too much, in my opinion, romance stuff (and I'm really not into that in my reads). However, the Author soon picked up the pace and the story picked back up again moving towards the, what I hoped was going to be, a brilliant conclusion. Nope, it turned back into the ending that I can only say was cliched and befitting Hallmark movies.

At times, parts of the book felt like they were written by a different person, and I'm not talking about "Regretting Belle" or Forever, and Other Lies", but just the plot line overall was a little 'off'

Yes, I enjoyed it, but I doubt I'll read anything else by this Author. ( )

Great book, had a hard time putting it down ( )