Interesting Premise, but not enough plot/drama

This book was sweet, but didn't have enough plot or snappy dialogue to carry it.

The actual situation everyone was in, what with threatening notes, second-chance romance, and people lying about their identities, was potentially enough to make a book, but it just never felt like anyone was at risk at all, either in their feelings or in terms of their safety. It felt like they were talking about deeper feelings of fear/affection/etc. but it never felt to me, as a listener, like anything was at risk, so something wasn't quite working with the communication of the angstier feelings.

Also, all the villains were off camera for almost the whole book, so we just had to trust the characters that they really were so bad.

There were some side characters who could have been really interesting m, but I feel like they didn't get enough dialogue to really develop them into memorable individuals. I liked them at their introduction, but they ended up fading out of my memory pretty quickly. I think sometimes books without a lot of plot can be really carried by good dialogue, but most of the dialogue in this book felt like it was moving plot forward, not like it was the point of the entertainment by itself.

One final thing. I was bothered by all the characters referring to something that happened 3 years ago as "so many years ago" and "all those years ago." I could by them using the phrase "back then" or something like that, but it really wasn't that long ago. That really took me out of the story.

If you like slower-paced, low angst, clean, cozy, and predictable you might like this book more than I did, but it just wasn't quite my cup of tea.

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