The probability of the way things happen in this story remind me a bit of a Dicken’s novel. But that is ok. Romances are often that way, a bunch of chance meetings that lead to “the one” after all.

This is the second book in a series of stories about young women living together in a house that is being restored in New York City. In this book, we follow Cat, who is a musician who is good, but whose boyfriend cheated on her on national television, and she just wants to get on with her music.

Through a series of not trusting the people she should trust, and too much alcohol, she gets herself in a bad situation, where only her songs and singing can get her out.

I found Cat to be very naive and immature, but that is the issue with reading books with 20-somethings in it. I got so angry at her for not trusting herself, but that is often what happens when women are young, and the whole point of a story is to grow and learn, even if it takes them the whole book to do so.

I got a little exasperated with Cat, but other than that, it was a quick read, and had a good love interest, and I expect we will see her again in the later books in the series.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bookspout for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out the 24th of June 2025.

An enjoyable book, would definitely recommend. Looking forward to reading more by this author, their writing style was easy to read.

This one is a mixed bag for me. I really appreciated what the plotline did exploring the double standards between men and women. I really did not like Cat but then I felt bad for not liking Cat because now am I part of the issue? A good one for book club discussions, I had started to guess it was part of a series as the other characters bobbed in and out but that didn’t matter at all to the understanding of the novel.