i love Monty & Reese and i loved being back in the Windy City world!

even if this book didn't quite hit the mark for me, i still enjoyed the book and absolutely devoured it. i felt it start to drag after 60%ish, and i found it so repetitive. there were quite a few cringeworthy moments too that i really had to push through.

but I loved the premise & i had a fun time reading it and getting glimpses of all the Windy City couples again, i think i might just be getting burned out on romances for now.

i'll be honest the reviews for this did put me off starting it but i am so so glad i finally did! i loved it, i couldn't put it down. i was completely hooked by Margaret's story & Alice and Haydens relationship. I also LOVED the setting so much, they're a strong point in Emily Henry's books & I always end up with a new destination to add to my ever-growing bucket list.

minus .5 stars because I was expecting more drama & scandal from the Ives family, and I found the ending a little rushed. But overall, a great story that I'm glad I picked up!

i liked this enough - i got a little bored near the end and was ready for it to be done but generally i enjoyed the story. It just wasn't anything special for me.

best fantasy i've read in a loooong time. the world building, the characters, the suspense, everything about this was perfect.

It’s not often a book has such an impact on me like this did - once I hit around the 60% mark i couldn’t put it down & I ended up uncontrollably crying for the last 40 or so pages.

We knew the ending from the beginning, yet I kept reading and hoping, praying, begging for us to be wrong. oh how I hoped it was a misdirection. I’ll be thinking about this book, this town & these characters for a long time.

This wasn't for me & I'm very sad that I ended up not loving this after all the hype.

I went into this knowing nothing and I think if I'd known what it was, I wouldn't have picked it up. I know I'm someone who doesn't enjoy open-ending & unanswered questions and that is all this book will leave you with.

It was an interesting idea and I generally enjoyed reading it, but I didn't find it as emotional as I'd seen from other people and I didn't get much from it.

This was interesting & I loved getting a behind-the-scenes look at some of my favourite shows growing up, I just wish it went into a bit more detail about the business/corporate side of Disney more. I really enjoyed that at the start of the book!

I was intrigued by the premise but the mystery felt a bit dragged out & I started to feel bored by the end, not the most satisfying ending. I could see where it was going, but it took forever to get there, and when it did I didn't feel the satisfaction of the reveal.

I also started this in December last year, put it down for ages and had no motivation to pick it back up so that's not a great sign!