title: It's All Relative
author: Rachel Magee
publisher: Thomas Nelson
publication date: August 6, 2024
pages: 336
peppers: 1 (on this scale)
warnings: none
summary: Helena can't stand the idea of going to her mother's wedding to a great guy for two reasons. First, his family is annoyingly perfect. Second, she has a crush on Gage, the fiancé of Polly Perfect (also known as Amelia, her soon-to-be sister-in-law). To help herself survive the week at the Perfects' island beach house, Helena asks her best friend Logan to be her plus one. Unfortunately, when they arrive, Logan discovers that Amelia is none other than Mia, his long lost true love.
tropes:
- stranded on an island
- second-chance romance
- meant-to-be
- weddings are romantic
- cute little sister
- all families are weird in their own ways
what I liked:
- the relationship between the mother and daughter
- the growing friendship between the almost-sisters
- the wedding planning
what I didn’t like:
- Helena is too much of a mess, too predictably messy
- endings seem too easy for all four
- breaking up a couple
- getting the two couples together relies too much on past feelings and not enough on showing them together on page (maybe because two couples in one book)
overall rating: 3 (of 5 stars)