Blurb:
Noelle Shepard is grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos and letters that hint to a forbidden love in her gram’s past. Needing to know the full story, she creates a TikTok video appealing for information – and it goes viral.
Through her video, she manages to track down her grandmother’s secret love, Paul, who offers to take her on the honeymoon road-trip he and Gram planned but never got to go on.
Noelle jumps at the chance to make this one last connection with her grandmother. There’s just one problem – Paul’s grandson is Noelle’s frustratingly handsome high-school rival Theo.
And Theo has to come, too.
It’s only two weeks. Surely Noelle can survive that long? But with one car between them – and often only one bed – it doesn’t take long for things to heat up…
Source: Goodreads
Book Review:
You, With a View
Jessica Joyce
Series: No
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 5/5
Spice: 2/5
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I was so captured by the poetic way Jessica Joyce tells a story. She just has such way with words, that’s so incredibly beautiful.
This book follows Noelle’s story as she reconnects with her late grandmother, by tracking down her secret love from the past.
Paul also happens to be the grandfather of her high school nemesis, Theo, and the 3 head out on a road trip (the honeymoon that never happened), as they go through her letters.
The way Jessica writes, I felt it.
I felt it in my heart and soul, and I was so connected to all of the characters, and their stories.
I highlighted so many parts while reading, some simply because of the way they were written and how she described something simple.
“I stare up at him, the moon shooting silver through his hair, teasing me with how he’ll look years from now.”
This book is so much more than a romance, as it goes through living with grief and finding your path in life.
Tropes + topics
💜 (high school) rivals to lovers
💜 Road trip
💜 Close proximity
💜 Only one bed
💜 Photographer fmc
💜 Tech CFO ? Mmc
💜 Grief & loss
💜 Family & found family
💜 Self discovery
💜 Single POV/first person