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** spoiler alert ** Happy publication day 🥳🎉🎧

I find myself in a very strange position here. I hadn’t realised that this title was a sequel, i haven’t read the first book 😩I know I know, where have I been, it’s been added to the tbr, however I felt that the story and the emotion was palpable from the first book. Infact, I was only a couple of chapters in when I knew I’d missed a book. It was like raw grief, I don’t know how else to describe it, and perhaps in missing the first book my words won’t give the author enough credit in that while I obviously now know the outcome of the story, i felt I’d lost out, yet I also felt its spirit entirely.

I’m very unsure on whether I’m adding spoilers, so I’m going to add them just incase.

I can’t speak on how it ties up obviously, but nonetheless I loved The Love We Found, I loved the way it was presented as an anniversary piece, the journey to get to the anniversary was breathtaking and god help me I have two book boyfriends, one from the beyond. I loved the way the story was written conversationally from Lucy to Gabe. I loved how Dax helped Lucy to mend. The person she is, the mother she is, her honesty in her never diminishing love for Gabe. In all honesty I was brimming tears often and I kept forgetting these were fictional characters.

If I hadn’t missed the first book I’m pretty positive this would’ve been a 5 🌟 which is totally on me.

Jill Santopolo writes and narrates this novel with such heart, tenderness and love, genuinely beautiful in every way.

Huge thanks to Harper Collins U.K. audio via NetGalley for the opportunity to review this ELC 🎧