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4 stars

It's my first by Susan Wiggs and... it's Book 9. This book might actually a romance story. It is a romance, just mild but from my reading, I viewed the story is more about Sonnet and her complicated life.

It is indeed complicated where she tried her best and hardest to impress her father, she wanted to spread her wings and gained new, exciting experiences, she's worried about her sick mother, and she denied her feelings towards Zach which she thought two of them being a thing is impossible.

It was heart wrenching to read about Nina, Sonnet's mom, fighting cancer. What I liked best is that Sonnet willed to hold everything only just to be there for her mom. Their relationship, the mother-daughter relationship is so beautiful. The feeling's intense. It is even madness to feel it from Zach's point of view as he, too, had through the same situation. His mother died from breast cancer and knowing Nina's diagnosis... I believe I've no any words for that.

Despite the mild romance, I liked how things wrap at the end of the book. It was excruciating to wait for the love to truly, finally blossom between Sonnet and Zach. It was direct, blunt confession and that made two very people who are best friends fill with love and happiness.

Read on your own peril.

Thanks to Harlequin (via NetGalley) for this ARC.