Romance {open door}
Soundtrack: What I Am – ZAYN
A sweeping, sensual, second-chance romance, Forget Me Not gripped from the first word to the end! Sometimes romance is an escape, and I loved being caught up in this grumpy florist, Elliot, meets romantic in denial wedding planner Ama.
Julie Soto is one of my favorite author discoveries of the year. Soto’s writing is fast-paced, detailed, and with just enough complexity to make the plot seem remarkably realistic. This was told through a dual point of view, with Ama describing the present while Elliot took the past. I loved this approach and felt it worked well as we began seeing the flaws and their original relationship. The slow intertwining of their professional and personal relationships and realizing that perhaps they wouldn’t work as a couple was surprising yet easy to accept.
The pinning on this book was next level. Every interaction between them just felt incredibly charged, and I loved witnessing acquaintances to lovers and then from exes to friends to more throughout the book. I adored the idea of the wedding planner falling for the florist. The way their conflict was apparent from the beginning and how they both fought it. The selflessness by Elliot as Ama, a woman who used to doing everything by herself, had to rely on someone else (I am a sucker for a caregiver). The tattoos and his reasoning behind them- major swoon. There was just so much to enjoy.
I loved the setting of the wedding industry. Something about how Ama wanted to know her clients had me fully wrapped up in the outcome of the big influencer x small-town girl wedding planned by Ama. I got married six years ago and loved working with our florist and wedding planner.
Julie Soto is an incredible talent, and I cannot tell you how much I loved Forget Me Not and her upcoming release, Not Another Love Song would recommend reading both, and I enjoyed seeing the characters overlap. I was absolutely enamored with this book!
Similar books where they are exes and must work together professionally include Seven Days in June and Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune.
