Eight Perfect Hours

Eight Perfect Hours - Lia Louis

Genre: Romance

Release Date: Expected 19th August 2021

Fifteen years ago today, Noelle and her best friend wrote down their hopes and dreams for their future selves - and of all the things she imagined she'd be doing right now it wasnt being stuck with a dead car and a dead phone on a snowy, closed motorway in the middle of nowhere. But as she's sitting in the cold and reminiscing on all the things she didn't do in the last decade and a half, she finds Sam and they spend the most perfect eight hours stuck in time together until they drive off back to their own lives.

She never expected to see Sam again, but when suddenly appears back in her life again and again she feels like this is a sign. But nothing in her life is ever that simple, especially not romance.

Eight Perfect Hours was a sweet, chaotically funny story about destiny and love - Noelle and Sam had that type of meet-cute we all dream of having and you had no doubt you were at the start of a whirlwind romance. I loved the fact they were far from perfect - and very honest about it.

For me, I found Noelle and Sam and their entire relationship rather problematic and awkward, and although they were endearing there was a part of me that couldn't fully get behind them getting together. There were definitely some sparkles but the fireworks didn't come for me that I was expecting from this story.

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐

Thank you to Lia Louis, Orion Publishing and Netgalley for this ARC in return for an honest review.

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