Slow burn romance might be too slow paced

     Jen Devon’s follow up to her novel Bend Towards the Sun follows the Duncan Family again and one of their members falling in love. Right Where We Left Us (which is set to be released on June 18th) is a story about family, loyalty, and finding love at the right place at the right time.
     Temperance Jean Madigan and Duncan Brady have never gotten it right. After one radiant, secret summer together when they were eighteen, they’ve been on-again off-again ever since. Now, despite red-hot chemistry and TJ’s closeness with Duncan’s family, they’re virtually strangers, only capable of adversarial banter, awkward small talk—and the occasional messy hookup. When a wedding at the Bradys’ vineyard lands TJ there for the summer, their mutual avoidance strategies prove impossible. When forced proximity begins to chip away at their armor, buried tensions resurface, old wounds urge confrontation, and once-in-a-lifetime love demands one last chance to finally get it right.
     This book took me a little bit to get into, but by the halfway point I was really itching to see when Duncan and Temperance would finally give into their feelings.
     I found the pining to be a little too dragged out and their communication skills to be lacking something, but overall this book has a bit of everything: steamy moments, heartwarming family moments, a bit of family drama, long kept secrets, funny moments, a wedding, and characters you’ll fall in love with (even if you do need a family tree to keep everyone in order lol)!
     I felt a lot of the plot points from BEND TOWARDS THE SUN (which chronicles Duncan’s brother and Temperance’s best friend fall in love) transitioned over to this book which made it more enjoyable of a read for me. That being said, this book can definitely work as a standalone novel also!
​     If you like second chance romances with a slow burn and LOTS of pining, then this is the book for you!

*I received an ARC from St. Martin’s Press in exchange for my honest opinion.

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