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4.5
This book is awesome!! I finished it a few days ago, after reading it start to finish until 5am in the morning, because nothing could make me put it down, and I've been thinking about it since!!! As always, Kristan Higgins makes you laugh and cry and become emotionally invested in the loves and lives of not only her main characters, but their friends and family as well.Faith is coming home three years after being left at the altar of what was supposed to be the most perfect wedding day her small town had ever seen. And what happens when she crosses the town line? She gets pulled over by the sexy-manly man-war hero Levi, the Chief of police, for speeding. Oh, and he also just happens to be the man who destroyed her wedding. Not the groom mind you, but the best man, and the (still) best friend of the groom Jeremy. So as you can imagine sparks and insults start to fly, but you can see from this first meeting that this book is going to be fabulous!! (In fact I think I giggled and sunk deeper into my reading spot on the couch, already knowing that I wasn't going anywhere for the next few hours!!!)Faith and Levi continue on through the story as adorably hilarious characters who seem to not like each other, but also seem oddly drawn to one another. But as we know ladies, men who so often annoy us, often times adore us!!Faith is the baby of her founding family, the "princess" with a bubbly sweet personality, but who has a deep secret that haunts her. Her mother died when she was a kid, and her family has never fully recovered. Each of her siblings works for the family vineyard in some way, except her. But she's coming home to put her stamp on the business and create something beautiful with her landscaping design. Jeremy was, and is, the only love of her life but she knows she needs to move on.Levi on the other hand, was the poor kid from the wrong side of the trailer park whose dad left, only to move 20 miles away, but still can't be bothered to be a father to Levi and his sister. So as a lot of boys do who have no where to go after high school, Levi joins The Army and enlists in three tours in Afghanistan. Then his mom takes ill and passes away and he's left taking care of his little sister and making sure she graduates high school and makes it through college. He also takes on the Chief of police role to a town full of utterly (but hilariously) incompetent people who need his help rescuing chicken from under porches and other high stress situations.Faith, Levi, and Jeremy have been "friends" since high school, and the author does a great job bringing the reader up-to-date with flashbacks into their combined and separate pasts. I think having them interwoven into the story makes the story way more interesting, because its like the author is slowly filling in puzzle pieces that continually make you fall more in love with Faith and Levi as a couple.That's all I really want to write about the plot, because I want you to read and discover all the wonderful and silly and awww moments for yourself. But this book is truly wonderful and is a touching story about family, old and new love, and forgiveness. You will not be disappointed!!!
