Until It Was Love
Another Perfect Read from Pippa
I will never not love a Pippa Grant book. Especially when it has such wonderful undertones of loss and longing woven amidst on-point hilarity and adorable pet antics. And Until It Was Love has it all, and then some.
Grant does a fantastic job of developing Goldie and Fletcher into characters readers will easily fall in love with as they fall in love with each other. I mean, come on, who doesn’t love a feisty, independent, self-assured heroine with a solid girl-gang of equally feisty elder-advisors, who’s got a wonderfully quick wit, and also some heavy baggage to unload. Pair her with a cocky, accomplished, stubborn, and seriously swoony not-quite-washed-up athlete with a loveable waggly-tailed sidekick, who has his own baggage to manage (the athlete, not the sidekick), and you’ve got romcom gold!
One thing I continue to love about Pippa’s books is how she infuses so many heartfelt, emotional moments with the snort-laugh-out-loud moments. Her characters have such beautiful depth and authenticity, it’s easy to connect with them. And when they hit that breaking point, and all the backstory is laid bare, I’m glad I keep a box of tissues nearby. And actually, sometimes those tissues come in handy when I’m laughing so hard I start crying. Because Pippa brings a healthy dose of reality and realism with her off-the-charts humor. And I am here for every page of it.
Until It Was Love is a complete standalone, but Grant does work in characters from her other Copper Valley series perfectly. Just enough to either get a wonderful hit of nostalgia, leaving you running to reread those stories, or pique your curiosity and send you running to add their books to your TBR. I thoroughly enjoyed this story and I know I’ll be diving in again—most likely in audiobook form because I absolutely cannot resist hearing this tale told by Samantha Brentmoor and Jason Clarke.
