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One thing about me is that I generally don’t enjoy full series that follow different characters and different love stories.
But if it’s a three-book series that follows one couple, I’m down to read it any time.
So it’s a little difficult for me to read intergenerational series, and by intergenerational I mean ones where the initial series followed the parents and then the subsequent series follows the children and all their different love interests.
This can be a little tricky for me, and in the context of a steamy romance, I really don’t want to see a couple get together and then later see their children having very spicy relationships.
If I had known this before I started this book, I probably would not have read it. But I did read it, and this was a major red flag for me when I realized it.
Unfortunately, that was just the first of many reasons why I should have dropped this book from the start.
I saw a lot of reviews about this book on Goodreads, and people were genuinely praising it. The author is prolific, with several works released in the past.
I can’t remember which of her other books I’ve read, but I don’t recall the quality being this low at the time.
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Honestly, I really hope this isn’t a case of AI creeping into the editing process, because that’s what it felt like at times, but that’s a conversation for another day.
So the story is that our female lead, Camille, is a small-town librarian in France who lost her father and has been feeling stuck in her town.
One day at work, she finds a letter, which is a love confession from a man begging a woman to accept his love.
She is immediately intrigued, does some online searching, and decides to go to Paris to return the letter and photo to this man.
But when she gets there, like in every romance book ever, she is mistaken for a nanny and ends up applying to be the nanny for his young daughter. That’s where the plot really starts.
Our male lead, Jack, got married about five years ago, but shortly after his wife became pregnant, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Their lives completely changed, and three years after she passed away, he is still drowning in grief. Because of this, he has essentially abandoned his daughter emotionally. And honestly, every single character in this book annoyed me.
Anyway, the female lead ends up living with him and his daughter, becoming the little girl’s nanny, and that’s how their romance begins.
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At first, I was hopeful because the setup reminded me of two of my favorite romance novels, but I can’t remember their names. In one, the make lead was a single father and the heroine somehow entered his life in a way that felt almost fated.
In another, the heroine found a wedding dress that belonged to the hero’s ex and ended up being pulled into his world. Both of those had that fantastical but emotional spark. This book tried to give me that feeling, so I kept reading, even though many parts of the plot were off.
This series actually stems from an earlier one that focused on the parents, and now we’re following the children, as I said earlier. The male lead and others in this generation have basically inherited a sex club in Paris and are tasked with running it.
That’s supposed to be the central conflict, but it really isn’t.
My main complaint with this book is that there was a lot of nothing. So many things were happening, but none were explored with any real depth. It honestly felt like the author was planting seeds for future books, but it didn’t work here.
Instead, I ended up with a bunch of questions and curiosities that were never resolved.
One thing that really bothers me in single-parent romance books is when a grieving father is shown abandoning his child. This was the first time I’ve seen it not only justified but almost rationalized.
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The book suggested that because he lost his wife, it was natural for him to be completely incapable of parenting.
I’m not saying grief doesn’t impact your ability to parent, but in this story, he neglected his daughter in so many ways for three years.
He even sent her to live with a friend, not family. He stopped her from speaking French at home because it reminded him of his wife. He banned her from dancing. He drained all the joy from her life and somehow we were supposed to root for his healing and romance with the heroine? I just couldn’t excuse that.
The female lead wasn’t much better. Remember, she initially came to return the letter and photo, but within a month she’s writing letters to the hero begging him to teach her shibari (a rope-based form of BDSM).
It was so uncomfortable to read because he was still deeply in grief, and she just kept pushing for more.
She was shamelessly begging for his attention, and the book framed it like she was this curious soul, but nothing about her actions felt curious in a healthy way. She came across as desperate.
And honestly, she was the worst. As I said, the male lead wasn’t much better – he was a neglectful father, and his grief didn’t feel authentic enough to justify his choices.
He wasn’t just emotionally distant; he was willfully ignoring his daughter’s needs. That was unforgivable for me.
On top of that, the book kept piling on random plotlines – his issues at work, conflicts with his godparents’ son, beef with his sister, drama with his parents. None of it tied together. The daughter was basically a placeholder who had been thrown in for effect.
I also knew a third-act breakup was coming because of all the secrets, and while I’ve grown to understand why they exist in romance, this one just irritated me.
By the time it happened, I was already frustrated with the characters and the shallow execution of the plot. The breakup was handled in such a dismissive way, considering the gravity of everything going on.
And yes, of course, they still got their happily ever after, but honestly, I wanted them to separate and heal on their own. That’s not how a romance reader should feel at the end of a book.
With that title, I genuinely expected something very different. Unfortunately, this book did not deliver, and I did not like it.
Someone else might enjoy it, especially if they like intergenerational romance series or this author’s previous works, but for me it was a jarring, unpleasant experience.
I won’t be recommending it, and I don’t plan to read anything else by this author.
If you’ve read this book and enjoyed it – or if you’ve read other books by this author that you think are worth checking out – let me know in the comments below.
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