Old Flames and New Fortunes (Moonville, #1)
Sarah Hogle
A steamy second-chance romance about a magical florist’s unexpected reunion with her high school sweetheart as she fake dates his soon-to-be stepbrother. A small, magical town tucked away in rural Ohio, Moonville is the perfect place for flora fortunist Romina Tempest to expand her shop, where she uses the language of flowers to help the hopeful manifest their love lives. After giving up on her own big romance eleven years ago, at least she can bask in the promise of others’. So, when the shop’s potential financier shares news of his wedding, Romina jumps on the opportunity to discuss buying the business. What better place to negotiate a deal than at a wedding, even if she has to fake-date her chaotic colleague Trevor to get an invitation? But all hell breaks loose when she discovers Trevor’s soon-to-be stepbrother is none other than Alex her high school sweetheart. Her greatest love. The boy who, eleven years ago, broke her heart, and who now thinks she and Trevor are dating. What starts as an innocent misunderstanding becomes a week-long fake dating scheme, as Romina resolves to make Alex pay for breaking her heart. The only issue? She can’t deny their still-burning connection. Caught between proving to Alex what he lost, and coming clean and risking her business, Romina must decide whether giving Alex another chance means going back on herself, or finally releasing her hold on the past.
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0 0I am absolutely obsessed with Sarah Hogle’s writing. I loved her writing style and story telling in her previous books and fell even more inlove with it throughout Old Flames and New Fortunes. This book had such a perfect mix of magic and love. I loved Romina’s character, the relationships she had with the people surrounding her made me so happy. I loved watching the friendship she had with her sisters, as well as her niece. I loved that we got so much detail about her flora fortunist work, I was worried we wouldn’t get any in-depth information about it. Sarah Hogle put so much detail into Romina’s livelihood and I loved reading about it. Now Alex King on the other hand ??? Oh I L O V E this man. He was such a well written and well thought out character. The way he was so perfect for Romina. I loved it so much. I did love that we got some flashbacks to their previous relationship, as much as I was heartbroken for their past selves, the way that their current romance was flourishing made my heart so happy. I don’t usually reach for second-change romances but Sarah Hogle has a way of making me obsessed with any trope just by the way she writes it. I loved how much we saw into their lives throughout the small amount of time that the book lasted, I felt like I was living the few weeks with the characters.
I loved Romina and Alex as a couple and I loved them by themselves as well. Alex is now the standard for future romance books. I loved his character so much<3
Huge thank you to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
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