marriage in trouble is my FAVORITE trope & this might be the best version of it i’ve ever read. meddling kids!! a husband who doesn’t realize how bad things have gotten, and a cabin that’s a place of safety for them all. i love love love love this story & i can’t wait to push it on all my friends as well.

I’m an Adriana Locke fan, and will read anything she puts out.

I went into this book not knowing if I was going to like it but it was so good. This is just basically a second chance romance.

I think that a lot of married couples can relate to this book and maybe even help some couples relate to their spouses.it has the typical Adriana Locke banter and emotions that I love.. this book is great do yourself a favor and read it now.

Nothing But It All is a second chance romance that really hits hard in the reality department. Real problems, a real family that is falling apart from the inside as their mom Lauren finally decides it is not worth the trying anymore with her husband Jack. It has been 20 years, two kids, so many lonely nights and that loss of the husband wife connection that has Lauren wanting to give up. I loved watching this family feel, understand, love and just try!!! Such a great story.
~~Michele McMullen~~

Marriage in trouble books are such a slippery slope for me - for everyone, I would think. They have to be done just right... and unfortunately this one was a little bit off.

📕 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Nothing But It All by Adriana Locke

📙 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: Standalone

📗 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀: ARC e-book read on Kindle. 🆓️ on KU

📘 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲: Contemporary romance

📔 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀: Marriage in trouble, all the feels.

📖 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Lauren and Jack had a storybook romance, but as the years have gone by they've lost each other. Jack is distracted by work. Lauren is unfulfilled. And as they move toward divorce, their kids trick them into two weeks at their family cabin as a family.

🌟 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: Alright, so for context here - I am married. And I think we all have different boundaries and agendas when it comes to our marriages. So marriage in trouble books are an acquired taste, and if they don't match the values you have in your marriage you're not going to vibe with it.

This might sound silly, but my only five star reads for marriage in trouble come when there's some therapy involved. There's no way that two people are going to truly solve deep-seeded issues without professional help. I haven't seen that in my reading travels just yet.

Jack and Lauren's story was sweet, but the fact that 5 years of marriage issues and an impending divorce is solved over two weeks at a cabin is really tough for me to stomach. Which I realize is ridiculous, because I spend a lot of time reading insta-love. But this is all just me.

𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹: 3/5 🌶🌶🌶

𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝑹𝑪 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒙𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘.

I wish I could say I loved it but I didn't.
I'm not a fan of Second Chance but I decided to give this book a chance since it had marriage in crisis which is not something you often see in a romance book. At least not when the couple is trying to be better, do better, and make their marriage work.
I didn't like Lauren. It seemed like she blamed a lot of her marriage troubles on Jack. She had a moment once when she realized it takes two to tango and she too is to blame but then she came back to the old narrative.
The book focuses a lot on family dynamics, mainly their teenage children and Jack's father, and not a lot on the romance between Jack and Lauren. I get that marriage isn't only two people, it's the whole family, but this book rarely had a scene where Lauren and Jack were both together without other people around. And even if it was, it was because their kids made them to be together (trapped on a boat, for example). Also, yes, I missed the smut! I really thought this would be a cute ''The Parent Trap'' retelling with some spice in it but this one was more ''family problems all over'', children's relationships, Jack and his father's relationship, and not enough Jack and Lauren. Who are they together? I honestly don't even know how they got back together.

I loved this book, it focuses on the challenges that married people don't talk about often. We all get in that slump after being together too long, and don't realize we have let things slip. Communication is important in relationships, and this book really touched up on how important it is to sit down and reflect with each other to keep your relationship strong.

Adriana writes both Jack and Lauren beautifully, and I enjoyed watching(reading) two people fall in love all over again. While this book is emotional, please don't be scared to pick this one up. It is like all of Adriana's books, where it is light and fluffy and gives you all the happy feels.

Also if you are a fan of the parent trap, you need to read this one! Mischievous children (and grandpa) are simply the best

This is a story about a married couple Lauren and Jack, headed to divorce unbeknownst to Jack. Lauren has called off the family summer vacation and has called a divorce attorney because she can no longer stand being neglected by Jack. Their two teenage kids, Maddie and Michael, and Jack's dad, Harvey, tell some white lies to get Jack and Lauren up to their cabin anyway to stay for their two week vacation. When Michael spills the beans that Lauren is thinking of divorce to Jack, Jack does everything he can to win Lauren back. There is one bed, blue collar, small town, lake and the outdoors, and a marriage that has a second chance. And a cute little puppy named Snaps!

Well Ms. Adriana Locke has done it again. This story had me hooked at the dedication of the book to Adriana's own father, I had tears running down my face thinking of my own father that I lost 4 months ago. This book had laughs, it had angst, it had love and family, everything you have known to love about an Adriana Locke book. You can't beat forgiveness and coming back together again. I have never been married or divorced and don't have children but I still loved this book. So take a chance, you won't be disappointed with this beautiful story.

This is a great read for anyone who loves a second chance, marriage in trouble trope. It has some Parent Trap elements that are really fun too!

I really enjoyed this story from start to finish. Jack and Lauren have been married for twenty years and turned in to strangers. I love how the book genuinely explores how everyday life can have negative affects on a marriage accidentally. They loved each other and were clearly hurt by the distance but slowing down to make time for each other was difficult with businesses and two teenagers. .It really takes you through how relationships change essentially by accident. How the day in and day out routine can push a marriage into mundane before apathetic. Everything about the journey was just really relatable and touching. It was drama without being overly dramatic. Relatable without being entirely predictable.

I loved the nod to The Parent Trap with the meddling teenagers and grandpa setting the couple up to force them on their annual family vacation. All of the little setups led to very sweet moments. Jack and Lauren really talked things out, worked through their argumnts and communicated. It is a slow burn, almost entirely clean but the marriage redemption was perfect. It’s a really cute, heartwarming, and short/easy read!

Another great read by Adriana Locke. If you’re in a mood for a marriage in trouble, second chance, small town romance look no further. I was hooked from the moment I started this one. It was pretty much a one sit read for me. I could relate to this book so much. Not in the sense that my marriage is in trouble, just how after being married for so long things just get to be routine. I thought that this was a realistic portrayal of how if you don’t take care of one another you can find yourself on a slippery slope. While there were heavy moments in this book there were times of laughter too. A great read that I definitely recommend!

Received an arc for a honest review.

Adriana does it again. She manages to make me fall in love, rip my heart out, and put it back together again, within the pages of this beautifully written book. She always finds a way to evoke emotions out of me that have me wanting to throw a book across a room. Finding a second chance with these two was a beautiful story told in the best of ways.

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Lauren is a stay at home mom with teenagers and she is at her breaking point. Her husband Jack doesn’t see it and chooses work over family. This marriage in trouble story is captivating, heart warming and humorous all at the same time. You can’t help but to empathize and sympathize with Lauren and the current state of her life. You don’t pity her, you applaud her bravery, strength and resiliency. Jacks vision of life is clouded with the need to provide for his family. Once his family is in peril that veil of clouds is lifted and rocks him to the core. The changes in him are almost instant. You love him for the way he listens, adapts, accepts responsibility and perseveres. I adored these two and the lie beautiful crazy family and thoroughly enjoyed the whole book. What a beautiful story about love, commitment happiness. So real and raw that I literally could not stop reading. Bravo for another fantastic book Adrianna.

Notthing But It All by Adriana Locke, Lauren Reed, is a mother of two and married to Jack Reed, she lost her parents when she was very little and her loved ones are her family, her best friend and her father-in-law, Harvey, but for some time, her marriage has been slowly dissolving on a day-to-day basis. Tired of asking for attention and waiting for her husband Jack to do the things she asks him to do or at least show up for dinner, she decides to take control of her life, after a while and with her children already teenagers, Michael about to finish school and Maddie will do so in a couple of years, she begins to work on a business that, thanks to Maddie and the fun videos she has put on her page, her services are highly sought after, this leads her to seriously consider divorce. When Maddie and Michael, helped by their grandfather Harvey, decide to conspire to make their vacation happen, as usual, at the cabin in Story Brook and get their parents to be in the same place for a couple of weeks and try to get them to get along. When they agree to continue with this little vacation it will be the opportunity for Jack to win back the woman he has never stopped loving and for Lauren to feel seen, heard and supported again.
This is a story full of feeling, beautiful characters who find themselves without realizing it separated by the burdens of life, but whose love is so strong that they manage to find their way back, but only when they are truly committed to making their relationship work and do everything necessary to always put themselfs first. A story that will captivate you and with which many will feel identified. A beautiful emotional story that you won't want to miss. Highly recommended!

4.5⭐️

First off, if you’ve never read an Adriana Locke book… you’re missing out.

Next, Lauren and Jack’s story makes my heart feel all the things!

The first chapter broke me a little, but then they get “parent trapped” and I couldn’t help but hold onto hope alongside their kids!

I told my husband that the ending is so perfectly imperfect, and you can imagine they are real people in your life. Like, I feel like Jack and Lauren could be our neighbors… That’s how relatable Adriana makes her characters!

🐚 𝐀𝐑𝐂 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 🐚

𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝘀: marriage in trouble, second chance, characters in their 40's, small town, parents of teenagers

This story is an emotional one where Lauren and Jack face a marriage in trouble. Their children and Jack's father made a plan to bring Lauren and Jack to the Pop's house, and spend one last summer together. Here, Jack finally sees that he has to change to save his relationship with Lauren, but she realizes some things too.

During the time they spent together, it makes them change some aspects, and repair the distance that exists between them, and save their marriage. The process is hard and raw, but a beautiful one. Girls, have some napkins with you because you might shed some tears.

Their story is full of emotions, from which we must learn that communication is the one of the keys to a successful relationship, and that without it we would be strangers to our loved one.

Thank you Adriana Locke and Montlake for the opportunity to read this amazing book in exchange for an honest review.

This books was provided via NetGalley.

Adriana Locke is on my automatic 1-click list. I fell in love with her writing years ago, and I’ve tried to catch every new release since. Her writing clicks with me every. Single. Time. I can’t quite put my finger on the why of it, but it does. I guess it’s like any other relationship in your life. Some draw you in, and some don’t. It’s one of the reasons I love reading new-to-me authors because it’s like speed dating in the book world. Most of the time, prospects are decent, but some are downright awful. And every once in a while, you stumble onto a big winner. I hit the jackpot with my first Adriana Locke book, and now, I can’t help returning over and over. She writes amazingly complex but (mostly) lovable characters in amazingly emotional (in the best possible way) stories. And she stayed true to her style and voice with this new release.

Jack and Lauren could be almost any married couple. And while I don’t think a marriage in crisis can be saved by two weeks away with meddling kids and an incorrigible father, this is fiction, just like instalove is fiction. What this story did well was to make me consider my own relationship, what pitfalls trip us up, and how we can navigate those. Ms. Locke did so while writing likable, relatable characters with dynamic personalities who weren’t afraid to do a good bit of self-introspection, considering both the positive and negative aspects of their selves and their relationships. The story had heavy moments, but there were enough light-hearted moments to make you smile and laugh. At the end of the day, fiction lovers long for stories to take us out of our reality and drop us into the potential. As usual, Ms. Locke did precisely this and did it very well.

NICUnurse’s Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Overall Grade: A

Tropes: marriage in trouble; small-town vibes; second chance; blue collar;

Dear Adriana,

I decided to write this review as an open letter to you because it’s been a week and a half since I finished reading Nothing But It All, and this book continues to cling to my soul. Reading this book was like looking into a mirror and seeing my reflection. You deftly and beautifully captured the challenges of two middle-aged parents and the strife of marriage. Yes, Lauren and Jack find their happy ending again, but the book’s ending promises that life will continue challenging them, and they will need to continue working hard at their marriage. The truth and reality of this book are couched in the tenderness and spice of Jack and Lo’s reconciliation, so anyone who doesn’t want to read the reality of romance can still melt with the love portrayed between these two characters. Yes, Jack’s father and their kids are critical to your story in getting Jack and Lauren to the place where reconciliation can happen, but they aren’t necessary to Jack and Lauren’s journey.

I have to be honest, though. I had to step away from the book several times because it was so real, and I saw myself in your story. My husband and I are essentially married roommates after 26 years of marriage.
Unfortunately, my husband isn’t Jack, whose self-awareness is refreshing in your story. So the hope projected through Jack and Lauren’s story is a bitter pill for me. My choices for my marriage, though, are represented in the truth of your book: marriage takes dedication and work through the good and bad times. Lauren says something like she would rather have Jack in her life than a life without him, and I think that’s true for me too.

Thank you for writing this book even though it was sometimes difficult to read because it’s so true to my life now. I am exceedingly grateful for the quality of your writing voice, and for how you create characters that look and sound like real people in real situations with the promise of finding their happy endings. Nothing But It All is a primer on how romances can be written about the challenges of middle-aged love and the hope for different outcomes.

It’s a beautiful and emotional second chance and goes to show you that there are still bumps in the road. Jack and Lauren have been married over 20 years now and have teenage kids. Lauren is a stay at home mom and devotes herself to their kids and Jack. Jack owns his own business, auto shop, and the past few years he spends more time at work than at home. It's kinda a parent trap situation, except the kids didn't just meet. They work together with their grandpa who definitely don't want their parents' marriage to end by making everyone stay at a cabin for two weeks. A beautiful, real and heartwarming story of a marriage on the edge of collapse, and a couple’s fight to get back on track and find their HEA again.

If you liked King of Greed, by Ana Huang, done want you will love this book from Adriana Locke.

It has the same themes of marriage in trouble, a little vacation and forced proximity. Add some kids who really don't want to see their parents break up and you have here a very emotional story of second chances. Jack finds out that his wife is about to file for divorce, he is determined to turn things around. As they struggle to get over the gross miscommunications that built up over their long term marriage, they rekindle their love and bring their family together.

I liked this story a lot, although i wished for a different, more thrilling ending. Still, marriage-in-trouble being one of my favourite tropes, this was a really good read for me.

Adriana Locke is one of my favorite authors for emotional, contemporary romances. She never fails to deliver a poignant, riveting story and Nothing But It All is no different! There are heavy, heartwarming, and laugh-out-loud moments that make this an amazing read. You know how they say you should never stop dating your partner? Nothing But It All gives you that reminder and may even have you reflecting on your own life. Lauren needs to feel seen and heard in her struggles, but Jack remains oblivious until it could be too late…If you're looking for a book that will give you all the feels, pick this up! It's so worth the read!

•Contemporary Romance
•Marriage in Trouble
•Second Chance
•Small Town
•HEA 🥰

“He stands in the doorway, one hand gripping the top of the frame. A smirk that’s as decadent as it is sexy is planted on his lips. My God, this man is something else.”

Review: 4/5 ⭐️
Steam: 1/5 🔥

Jack and Lauren have history. They’ve been married more than two decades but Lauren is tired of being put on the back burner. Jack has been working hard to support their family but lost sight of his wife’s needs. So when it seems like everything’s going to dissolve, the kids and their grandfather step in to save the couple who are meant to be.

Lauren and Jack don’t have the perfect marriage. But they have a real one. It’s so easy to get lost in kids and work, not even realizing that you or your spouse aren’t the people they once were, and not always in a bad way. When they say marriage is the hardest job you’ll have, it’s not a lie. But through all the struggles it’s easy to understand why these two love each other. It’s raw and real. As hard as it was, they fought because they knew what their hearts felt. Not a trope I usually read, but I did find it easily relatable and enjoyable.

@authoradrianalocke captured what a real marriage is like so well. As much as we love romance, it’s refreshing to see real life things, not all butterflies and rainbows. I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoys this trope or needs a refreshing dose of real, true love.