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4.5 stars.
I love Sherry Thomas�� writing. I don’t know if there is anyone better who can weave super intriguing and at the same time sweet, romantic, heart wrenching plot.
She is also master of metaphors. Consider this one:

“He was hungry. He was hungry because she’d served him food that had been the culinary equivalent of a siren song—he could no more eat it than a sailor of antiquity could relax and enjoy the music as he sailed into the rocky cliffs of Anthemusa.��

What a tension.

This is a beautiful book with a very original plot that was skipping back and forth from present to past for the first third of it.

Characters are magnificent and I appreciate how their interactions were described. MCs seem to read each other instead of just relying on words. There is a lot of intuitive communication which makes this romance so rich.

But then the resolution was frustrating.
What saved this annoying resolution was the secondary love story.
In this slightly longer book you will get two well flashed out romances. Yay.

Food descriptions were a little fetishistic and made me hungry for a home made meal made with love and care and attention (not by me).

If you find it annoying when one MC is not revealing who they are; when they are literary not showing their face, be forewarned.


I am still giving this book 4.5 stars because the sweetness and fatalistic love story was just out of the park. I have not read better, more believable version of attraction at first-sight that leads to love-for-life story.