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❤️📖🍦BOOK REVIEW🍦📖❤️

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🥰Thank you so much to @duttonbooks for the ARC.

📖Title: A Season of Perfect Happiness
✍️Author: Maribeth Fischer
📆Pub date: August 20, 2024

🍦Of course I had to go to Kopp’s for this shot!

❤️This was definitely one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve read recently. It’s really hard to describe without giving anything away, but I think what it came down to for me was this: Is love enough to overlook someone’s past? Can you forgive others if you don’t forgive yourself?

🍦The book starts out with an adorable whirlwind romance. Claire moved to Wisconsin from Delaware to get away from her complicated past. She begins to fall in love with Erik and he quickly welcomes her into his family (3 children and an ex-wife) with open arms. The majority of their dates take place at Kopp’s which is a custard/burger joint outside of Milwaukee and a Wisconsin legend! I loved how accurate everything Wisconsin related was in this book from all the street names to the landmarks, etc. I could picture where everything was taking place and I LOVED that!

📖Everything seems perfect, but Claire is keeping something major from Erik that she feels could unravel their entire relationship. She finds herself so closely intertwined with his children and closest friends and she knows by telling the truth she could risk losing it all.

❤️I was absolutely glued to this book. The story itself was slow and delicate but I appreciated that as it really gave me the time to get to the know the ins and outs of the characters. The only reason this isn’t 5 stars for me is that I wanted a little more at the end. I feel like so much of the book was leading up to a particular moment and then after it happened, I was left longing for a tiny bit more. Maybe it’s simply that I became extremely attached to these characters.

⚠️This book deals with HEAVY HEAVY topics and saying what they are would completely spoil the plot. This is not a light and fluffy rom-com, this is a hard and serious look at extremely intense issues.

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