It's Different This Time by Joss Richard
Rating: 5/5
Spice: 1.5/5
Plot: 5/5
Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance
Blurb:
In this sweeping, second-chance romance, a twist of fate forces two former roommates to move back into their beloved New York City brownstone and face the events that led to their estrangement—and confront their unresolved feelings for each other.
Subject 74 Perry Street
So begins the email that turns June Wood’s entire world on its head. Five years ago, she lived on Perry Street with her former best friend Adam Harper. But why is the management company reaching out to her about it now?
Still smarting from the news of her hit TV show being canceled, June has nothing else to lose. She boards a plane from Los Angeles to New York City to find out more about the mysterious email and the promised opportunity it alludes to. It turns out that, thanks to an unbelievable legal loophole, if she and Adam can live together in the stunning West Village brownstone for a month, it’s theirs. Any true New Yorker knows you don’t pass up prime city real estate, and that fall in the city is magical—so what’s there to think about?
And yet, though most things have changed in the time since they last spoke, one thing hasn’ June and Adam have unfinished business. They didn’t exactly end on good terms when they each went off to chase their dreams. Now, confronted with the consequences of their choices, they must navigate the minefield of their past the best way they know together.
Every day they move closer to owning Perry Street reveals misunderstandings, long-term resentments, and long-buried feelings . . . which are suddenly feeling very, very not so buried. But they’ve already lost their friendship once before, devastating them both. Can they risk losing it again for something a little different this time?
My Thoughts:
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This is a lovely book that takes place in the fall. There’s dual timelines so you’re hopping back and forth between the past and present to allow you to learn how June and Adam got to the point in their relationship. This book is about two college best friends and the feelings that happened between them during the time that they lived together, how it all fell apart, and how they come back into each other’s lives. This is about growing up. How they struggle with their careers and success. Their families. The book is wrought with emotion, miscommunication, sexual tension and romance. It’s incredibly well written. For me, this wasn’t just a book. This was an experience. This is in my top ten reads of the year, it’s so incredibly good. DO NOT MISS.
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