“I’d say that I regret the things I never said way more than the things I have said.”

So Annie is one of the many sisters of Noah Walker of our prior go-around, When in Rome. She’s the youngest one, the baby, the one everyone babies, the one who’s just seen as the kid etc etc get the drift? In a town this small, which definitely would be suffocating as all hell, Annie manages to maintain a fully functioning flower business (!?!??!) which is just about as logical as as functioning pie business in my opinion. But her biggest issue is that she’s so boring and sweet and innocent that no one thinks anything of her in an adult, romantic manner and she will end up alone and babied.

But the thing is, no one can be THIS ridiculous for this long and then just whine about it constantly! I get the dynamic of having overbearing sisters and not feeling like you can speak up, but Annie seems to want the greener grass on the other side which isn’t really that much more different. She’s smart but seemingly incapable of holding a conversation, such that people actually leave dates with her midway because she’s seen as too boring. The solution to that is not a tattoo-covered bodyguard who DEFINITELY doesn’t want to put down roots and DEFINITELY wants to leave and DEFINITELY doesn’t have some life-long trauma that’s going to be easily extinguished–what? oh? Will’s got a phobia of marriage because his parents had a bad marriage and then gives his younger brother the silent treatment when he finds someone he wants to marry and then realizes he also wants to get married?

I don’t fault books where I know the ending–that’s fine, that’s romance–but when the pieces have to move so far across the board it’s a bit disconcerting.

PLUS sorry last thought I really dislike both the messaging that Will getting into a top school like MIT means he has value -and- that he’d turn it down so that his dysfunctional parents can’t look to it as justification that their parenting was good.