The Bridge Back to You

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• Melissa

  Finished February 28, 2026

  Olivia and Carmello both inherit the restaurant where they fell in love with cooking and each other in this delicous second chance romance! 💕 what's on the menu: 🍽️ dual pov & timeline 🍽️ second chance 🍽️ forced proximity 🍽️ single dad 🍽️ anxiety & ocd rep 🍽️ adhd & endomentriosis rep I enjoyed this book a lot! More than anything it made me ready to drive across the country to eat in Providence. Food trucks and loaded donuts where!! I loved Olivia and Carmello individually, I just didn't fully understand why they got back together so quickly. Olivia had one foot out the door, ready to go to Tokyo while hooking up with Carmello- his mood toward her also flipped without much warning. Keeping the reason why she left ten years ago a secret until the very end felt frustrating for no reason because I really felt they needed to talk about that before getting back in bed together? I did love that Olivia made friends outside of Carmello and Celia's Place- getting to see Laniah and Wildy Green thriving was nice if you've read a Love Like the Sun, but I felt like she did a lot of heavy lifting for the plot- the whole game changing plan for the restaurant was Laniah's idea, based off what she came up with to save her own business. Someone else even came up with the idea for the question cards. In hindsight, Celia's prank seems cruel and like she didn't believe Olivia would want to stay in one place. It doesnt make a lot of sense, but I've never been great at understanding people's motives for games like this. I think I needed the revelations to come to light a little earlier, the ending and travel solutions felt a little rushed and slapped on for the sake of everything working out. Thanks so much to Berkley for this eARC!

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