2.5 stars for me. While it was a cute read, it did feel chaotic and a bit all over the place. Celeste also really annoyed me with constantly being upset about Gemma having moved on even AFTER Gemma explained it all. Like bro. 4 months is not THAT short.

2.5 stars

Love in Focus has a great premise as a second chance work place sapphic romance, but unfortunately it wasn't for me. Although there are some aspects of the book I loved such as Gemma's friends and the assignment Gemma and Celeste work on was such a good idea.
I wish Celeste's POV was in first person as it did take me out of the story a bit after reading Gemma's Chapter in first person to it suddenly being in the third person. Also I found Celeste's behaviour towards Gemma uncomfortable as instead of taking responsibility for her actions she made Gemma feel responsible for everything.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC

First of all, thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this book.
Starting with the positives, the representation in this was really good. We meet so many different couples of different ethnicities, genders and sexualities.
The relationships I really liked were between side characters Val and Kiara, the friendship between Val, Kiara and Gemma and the relationship with her parents.
However, I did not find the relationship between Gemma and Celeste enjoyable sadly. Celeste did not have a good enough reason for ghosting and Gemma was too quick to forgive and apologise.

3/3.5 stars.

This was a cute, sapphic, 2nd chance romance and I did have a good time reading this and was overall a fun, bingeable book. There was a few moments were Celeste and Gemma did annoy me and at times felt quite childish considering the characters are late 20s I was quite surprised at this.

I really wish we got to hear more from Celeste and see more of her thoughts and feelings as her chapters were often very short and therefore I couldn't really connect with her. I would've loved to be in her POV more especially to explore more regarding her best friend as it referenced how important he is to her, but I feel like we didn't really get to see that for ourselves.

Overall it was a fun read and I did have a good time reading it but I do wish there was a bit more development of the characters. I will never see another orange couch without calling it Clementine!

Thank you Forever Publishing and NetGalley for allowing me to read a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.