Dear Rosie,

Love Letters #2

by S.J. Tilly

Rosie
I was eight when Nathan moved away.
He was my best friend.
My only friend.
My safe space.
And then he was gone. And my life turned into Hell.
But I survived.
I broke free and made a life for myself.
And I tried to forget about the boy who grew up to be Nate Waller, the famous retired football player.
I really did try to forget.
But then I opened the door, while working at a client’s house, and he was there. Standing before me.
My old friend.
My unwitting confidant.
My Nathan.
Except… he doesn’t recognize me.

Nate
The curvy little redhead captured my attention the second I saw her.
And I knew I needed to have her.
Needed to know her better.
Needed to get my hands on her.
But when I did.
When she moaned my name. My full name. It all came rushing back.
Twenty-five years had passed, but in that moment I finally recognized her.
My Rosie.
My childhood friend.
I may have forgotten about her. But I remember now.
And this time I’m not letting her go.

Genres: Romance, Friends To Lovers, Second Chance, Sports Romance, Contemporary Romance, Sports, Contemporary

438 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 24, 2024

About the author

S.J. Tilly lives in Minnesota with her husband and their herd of boxers. She spends an unhealthy amount of time with her face buried in books, reading and writing. If she’s not nose deep in text, or harassing her dogs, she’s probably playing with her plants, pretending she knows how to garden.

You can find her stumbling around on Instagram @sjtillyauthor

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Reviews

[Noa · Rating 5 out of 5]

"But there's something there. Something I've never felt before. Something that feels a little like destiny."

They were close until they weren't.
Until he moved away.
The day Nathan Waller left Rosalyn Edwards was a day she will never forget.
But she had to learn to let go.
Rosie had to learn to stop holding on.
Until today.
Until she just happens to be catering an event where he's there.
Nathan Waller.
The only problem?
He doesn't recognize her.
But that doesn't stop him from wanting her. From making her scream his name.
And when she does everything comes flooding back.
And this time he's not letting her go.

"I forgot all about Rosie. Until she moaned my name in Maddox's pantry. And now that I remember it all, I want to know even more."

I received an advanced reader's copy in exchange for an honest review 💌🏈💌

"My pretty Little Rose, tasting like home."

You know… YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS WAS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE OF A STORY!!
I loved Nate and Rosie - they were absolutely adorable. Their whole story, the twists, the letters, the desserts, the dirty talk 🥵🥵🥵
I could not put this book down for the life of me - I loved every single second and you know tears were shed and kindles were fanned because S.J. Tilly just knows how to hook line and sinker in the best possible way 💞💞

"Dammit, Rosie. You need me as much as I need you. And I won't quit until you realize it."

Nate is a retired football player and Rosie owns a catering business. Who could have guessed that 25 years later they would be brough back together. In a pantry. With Rosie moaning Nathan's name. I mean come on (no pun intended) just from this premise I was already hooked. The whole Nathan and Rosie story still revolves around the letters but the real story is their chemistry and their obsession. From both sides. I will say it again - S.J. Tilly wrote a masterpiece with this one and I absolutely adore it!! 🏈💌
Also I saw that easter egg and I was obsessed (no spoilers here but IYKYK 😇😇)

"Dammit, Rosie. You’re gonna be the death of me."

This playlist was honestly so much fun to make. It was (dare I say) easy and flowy and that is just the best feeling for me - so I hope you like it 💞💞

(Link - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/74m... )

🎶 "Silence" - Marshmello, Khalid
🎶 "Winner" - Conan Gray
🎶 "we can't be friends (wait for your love)" - Ariana Grande
🎶 "Rue's I'm Tired" - Labrinth, Zendaya
🎶 "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" - Edison Lighthouse
🎶 "Burning Down - Alex's Version" - Alex Warren
🎶 "Cry" - Kelly Clarkson
🎶 "Haunted (Taylor's Version)" - Taylor Swift
🎶 "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart" - Taylor Swift
🎶 "Oxytocin" - Billie Eilish
🎶 "Shackles" - Steven Rodriguez
🎶 "Hammer to the Heart" - Teddy Swims
🎶 "Into You" - Ariana Grande
🎶 "dancing in the kitchen" - LANY
🎶 "Taste" - Ari Abdul
🎶 "Soaked - Sped Up" - Shy Smith
🎶 "Call Out My Name" - The Weeknd
🎶 "Spectrum" - Florence + The Machine
🎶 "Movement" - Hozier
🎶 "Espresso" - Sabrina Carpenter
🎶 "Wonder" - Shawn Mendes
🎶 "Never Tear Us Apart - Orchestral Version" - Paloma Faith
🎶 "Drinking with Cupid" - VOILA
🎶 "You Put a Spell on Me" - Austin Giorgio
🎶 "Hooked" - Why Don't We
🎶 "eyes don't lie" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "I Feel You" - Depeche Mode
🎶 "Dirty Thoughts" - Chloe Adams
🎶 "would you love me now?" - Joshua Bassett
🎶 "HEARTBEAT" - Isabel LaRosa
🎶 "Freak" - Doja Cat
🎶 "Take Me Away - Cover" - Meet Me @ The Altar
🎶 "Miss Independent - Cover" - Meet Me @ The Altar
🎶 "That's My Girl" - Russ
🎶 "R U Mine?" - Arctic Monkeys
🎶 "Never Let Me Go" - Florence + The Machine
🎶 "Coffee In The Morning" - Jeremy Jordan
🎶 "Hoodie" - Hey Violet
🎶 "Nervous" - The Neighbourhood
🎶 "Glimpse of Us" - Joji
🎶 "Harder To Breathe" - Maroon 5
🎶 "Too Sweet" - Hozier
🎶 "I Like Me Better" - Lauv
🎶 "Midnight Rain" - Taylor Swift
🎶 "doomsday" - Lizzy McAlpine
🎶 "Finally Free" - Joshua Bassett
🎶 "Starving" - Hailee Steinfeld, Zedd
🎶 "Always Been You" - Jessie Murph
🎶 "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)" - Taylor Swift
🎶 "I miss you, I'm sorry" - Gracie Abrams
🎶 "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" - Shawn Mendes
🎶 "Lose Control" - Teddy Swims
🎶 "Whatever" - Alex Coles
🎶 "Eat Your Young" - Hozier
🎶 "Lipstick" - Charlie Puth
🎶 "exes" - Tate McRae
🎶 "Family Line" - Conan Gray
🎶 "I Want It All" - Bonnie McKee
🎶 "Collide (Sped Up Remix)" - Justine Skye, Tyga
🎶 "I Was Made For Lovin' You [Orchestral Version]" - YUNGBLUD, Dominic Lewis
🎶 "Love The Hell Out Of You" - Lewis Capaldi
🎶 "Electric Love" - BORNS
🎶 "The One" - Kodaline
🎶 "Heavenly Kind Of State Of Mind" - Lewis Capaldi
🎶 "golden hour - Orchestral Version" - JVKE
🎶 "Slow Dance" - AJ Mitchell, Ava Max
🎶 "Like Real People Do" - Hozier
🎶 "Sex on Fire" - Kings of Leon
🎶 "Share Your Address" - Ben Platt
🎶 "Black and White" - Niall Horan
🎶 "Imagine - Acoustic" - Ben Platt
🎶 "pink skies" - LANY
🎶 "Better Man" - 5 Seconds of Summer
🎶 "HONEY (ARE U COMING?)" - Maneskin
🎶 "FOR YOUR LOVE" - Maneskin
🎶 "Criminals" - Meghan Trainor
🎶 "Crowded Room" - Meghan Trainor
🎶 "Perfect" - One Direction
🎶 "That Part" - Lauren Spencer Smith
🎶 "Biblical - Acoustic" - Calum Scott
🎶 "Die With A Smile" - Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars
🎶 "You Found Me" - The Fray
🎶 "Ruin My Life" - Zara Larsson

And S.J. Tilly knows how to bring the 🌶️🌶️🌶️ like it's absolutely nobody's business and I love her for that 💓💓

"Is all of this for me? You this wet just for me?"

"That’s right, Beautiful. It’s me inside you. And you’re taking me so good."

"Touch yourself. Put my dick back in your mouth, then touch yourself."

💌 Tropes 💌

🏈 Childhood Friends to Strangers to Lovers
🏈 Plus Size FMC
🏈 Millionaire Romance
🏈 Retired Athlete
🏈 Emotional Damage

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[Darlene I read WAY to many books · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's been a while since I cried reading a book, and this one I cried many, many times that I had to take a mini break from the headaches I got. But this is one of my favorite books she wrote.

Rosie girl went through a lot as a kid and what's worse, losing your best friend because life happens and he has to move. And you forget each other because of a mistake and wrong numbers on an address. Now, years later, they meet again. What hurts more Nate doesn't recognize her and at first treats her like a fan, which broke my heart because Roise heart broke. It wasn't until they locked lips and she said his full name he remembered her. From their Nate wasn't letting her go he wanted his bff back , and it turned into more.

The tension between them was delicious. There was a little back and forth, but Nate wasn't letting go. And when we got to the texts, it was adorable. Then I cried when he found her letters. 😭 get some tissues, they hurt.

It was just a perfect story. Enough said. There is more stuff, but I feel you need to read it.


Angst, no ow/om drama, no cheating, slight secondary character, tiny dramaish, sexy times, no virgins

Recommend-yes
Cover-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heat level-🌶🌶🌶

Prologue
Slowinsta
33h/37H
Truma
Abuse
Praise kink
Death of a parent on and off page
Parent abuse verbal, emotional, and physical
Negative self-talk
Suicidal ideations
Anal play
No condom
Hea
Epilogue

[Kursed Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nate provided a beacon of hope and the friendship Rosie needed during her darkest days. Reunited years later as adults, their deep emotional connection sets the stage for an epic love story, but there are secrets which threaten to tear them apart.

Unless you have a concern for possible triggers, I highly recommend diving into this one blind. I'd also suggest having some tissues nearby. It's a very emotional ride tempered with great banter and spicy spice.

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars

This book was so fun, but also hit me in the feels. I loved how much Nathan loved Rosie. Childhood friends meet again in their 30's. She's a caterer and he's a retired NFL player. The letters were perfect. I enjoyed this one a lot! For such a long book, I read it really quickly!

[Samantha (bookgramsaga reviews) · Rating 4 out of 5]

⭐️⭐️⭐️.75-⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (ARC)

''Because I want to know you again''

Safety warnings:
- No cheating
- No OM/OW drama
- Mention of child abuse
- Mention of loss of loved ones
- Long separation
- Mention of su*cidal thoughts
- HEA

The first part of this book was hard to read. To see the pain Rosie has that started at such a young age and then see her abandonment shape her.

Nathan and Rosie were best friends once upon a time, they were secretly hanging out and when Nathan's family moved away, he left her behind (he was 12 and she was 8). He never could have known what life she was living at home nor what she would go through well until she was an adult.

I'll be honest and say I liked Rosie a lot more than Nathan. He haunted her and she forever remembered the boy who was everything to her during a time of pain and suffering while Nathan grew up not really thinking about her and eventually forgetting her.

It hurt for me to see Rosie watch him become an NFL player and see his life throughout the years.

Meeting each other again after 25 years seems like a long time but they were YOUNG when they were separated. It doesn't take long for him to remember her and fall right back towards their friendship and eventual romance. I know it was not Nathan's fault for how his life turned out and how hers did, but I wish he had kept her in his mind throughout the years and occasionally wondered what happened to that little girl....it just made extremely sad she never ever crossed his mind after a certain point.

There was a big secret revealed at the end that I did not see coming but maybe it was just me. I was shocked that it even happened, it was well hidden for me, so I never even doubted the original story.

[Soft Nectarine ~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy breezy albeit slightly boring read! BUT they do recreate the coveted “stuck in the dryer” porno scene…. ✨

“You’re turning me into a fucking freak, Rosie. And I don’t even care.”

Rosie & Nate were childhood friends and reconnect over a dirty rendezvous in a friends’ pantry. It’s okay…she’s a chef! Although a difficult past tore them apart their chemistry is burning brighter then ever 🔥 Nate is completely obsessed with Rosie and I love that for us!

Their dynamic was fun & healing (especially for Rosie) and I definitely had some chuckles. I really enjoyed how caring and protective Nate was with Rosie although her lack of confidence was a bit painful at times.

My favorite moments:

💌 he calls her Rosie Posie and that might be my favorite nickname ever

💌 sick bed

💌 PRAISE! he slowly builds her trust & confidence

💌 he shaves her

This was a super easy read but besides the romance there was not much else going on. Typically, I don’t mind this but it could come across as a little boring since it lacked a bigger plot. Also her expecting to remember her after 25 years was a bit ridiculous.

I WISH TONY WOULD GET HIS OWN BOOK but alas this is the last one in the series! *SJ shouldn’t write side characters so good without intending to give them a book*

3.75 ⭐️

protective mmc
childhood friends
business woman fmc
he falls harder
forced proximity
🍑🍑
adorable pet cat
domestic violence
HEA

[Hey Lin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm waffling between a 3-4 star but there were a lot of things that bothered me to bring it down to a 3.

They meet when she's 8 and he's 12. They usually meet in the woods behind their houses and one day, he tells her that he's moving. She cries and leaves, but he leaves a note for her with the wrong address on it and she gets it sent back with undeliverable on it. Honestly? I liked this scenario better than love Utley book 1 where they're older and they don't even text each other 😂😂🤦🤦🤦

She sees him on tv playing pro football and knows what he does and finally lets go of him since he's living his life and she has a major secret that she doesn't want to bring him down with.

They meet TWENTY FUCKIMG FIVE YEARS later 🙄🙄🙄🙄 she's now a caterer and she's working at a party for the couple from book 1 and he's the guys best friend. He doesn't remember her very obvious red hair. He doesn't remember her PERIOD. Which kinda sucks because she has been carrying a torch and leaving her front light on for him since she was freaking 8 😂😂😂😬😬😬😳👎 he has a company that.....does technical computer things? he thinks she's a fan and signs a notepad for her 😂😂😂😂👎 but she says his name Nathan during a kiss in the pantry which is what she called him while everyone else called him nate and then he remembers 😂😂👎

The rest of the book is him being a super duper nice guy and she thinking that she had to leave him because she did been have hope for them to be together. I felt like every chapter had her wanting to leave with one foot out the door and it got annoying til i found out why. She sees a car coming at her coworker in the street, pushes her coworker out of the way and gets hit by it.so he makes her move in with him. The cat charlie was cute.

Stop reading if you don't want a spoiler!!

Het dad was verbally and physically abusive so she drugs his drink to kill him 🤷🤷🤷🤔 She even wrote a note that admits her murder 😳😳😳👎 H finds the note and finds her when she runs and tells her that he knows and she doesn't have to worry about it anymore. He got rid of all evidence since he knows someone who can hack stuff and she's clear to live her life with him.

The end.

Has this author always had such short sentences? I used the assistive reader on my fire tablet to listen instead of read so it wasn't a big deal but most of the book reads like a poem!

He thought she was nice.
And thoughtful.
She was a dream come true.
A vision.

😂😂😂 it was a bit like someone jerking to a stop i the car when the sentences were so choppy.

[Jenn (The Book Refuge) · Rating 4 out of 5]

SJ Tilly has a talent for writing very relatable heroines. So when the picture perfect, obsessed man falls for them, it makes you believe like you're a queen right along with her. Seeing to your every need and making your life better than you ever thought it could be.

That's what Nathan does for Rose in this romance. These childhood friends that were separated by circumstance and kept apart for so long. They meet again when Rosie does a catering job for Nathan's friend. He may not immediately recognize the girl he moved away from all those years ago, but the pull towards her comes back in a flash.

Then when he discovers who she is, in a very compromising situation I may add, he knows it's a done deal: He MUST have her. She's like a piece he didn't even know he was missing.

Rosie doesn't think Nathan will give her a second glance when they meet again, but she is dead wrong. She may be worried what he'll make of her past but there's nothing that can scare him away and she's about to see just how determined he is.

He'll even sic his lovable cat on her to win her over! He's not above playing dirty. :)

As always, my critiques lie in how long some of SJ Tilly's books are and the chapters that are sometimes 2 sentences long feel so jarring via audio.... because the narrators have to actually say the chapter title when it switches. Whereas if you are reading it, you maybe don't feel as pulled out by a chapter change. Just food for thought.

Dual narrated by Andi Arndt & Christian Fox. They brought their A-game, as always and it made for a very enjoyable read.

4 stars
3.5 on the spice scale

CW: abusive parent (past but remembered), suicidal ideation, car accident (see author's note for more)

Sexy content: anal, toys, semi-public sex

*Thank you to Must Love Audio and the author for an ALC of this title*

[Irene Menolli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finito di leggere in anteprima, mi ha lasciato un po' con l'amaro in bocca, non saprei spiegare il perché... si merita comunque 4 stelline, non mi sentirei di darne di meno all'autrice, pero' nella mia lista di gradimento sicuramente non occupa alcuna delle prime posizioni.
Peccato perché ho invece adorato Love, Utley e Tackled in the Stacks, rispettivamente primo libro di questa serie e la sua novella prequel. peccato.
now off we go ad aspettare le novelle natalizie della serie the bites e il primo libro libro della serie mountain men 😭


Waller’s story, can’t wait! 🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️

the blurb is here 😭

Rosie
I was eight when Nathan moved away.
He was my best friend.
My only friend.
My safe space.
And then he was gone. And my life turned into Hell.
But I survived.
I broke free and made a life for myself.
And I tried to forget about the boy who grew up to be Nate Waller, the famous retired football player.
I really did try to forget.
But then I opened the door, while working at a client’s house, and he was there. Standing before me.
My old friend.
My unwitting confidant.
My Nathan.
Except… he doesn’t recognize me.

Nate
The curvy little redhead captured my attention the second I saw her.
And I knew I needed to have her.
Needed to know her better.
Needed to get my hands on her.
But when I did.
When she moaned my name. My full name. It all came rushing back.
Twenty-five years had passed, but in that moment I finally recognized her.
My Rosie.
My childhood friend.
I may have forgotten about her. But I remember now.
And this time I’m not letting her go.

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tropes: childhood best friends to strangers to lovers, insta love, retired atlete, millionaire MMC, curvy FMC with traumatic past.
Rating: 2.75✨

I’m disappointed because since I liked the first book, I had high expectations for this one too, but unfortunately it didn't deliver.
The only things this book has going for it are the initial flashbacks and Charles.
Oh, and by the way, this book is the insta-love of the insta-lover.

Rosie and Nathan were childhood best friends, but then he moves and gives her the wrong address, and that’s how they lose contact.
Time jumps to present day.
They meet again and she recognizes him (to be fair, she saw him on tv in the past because he is a famous football player), while he has completely forgotten about her. Surprise surprise, he then remembers her because she simply calls him Nathan instead of Nate. So he doesn’t recognize her for her red hair, the fact that her name is Rosalyn (pretty much the same name Rosie could have had) and for the fact that they also have the same age gap he had with his childhood friend, no. He recognizes her because she calls him Nathan, sure Jan.
I know this is silly, and I get that it could be difficult to instantly remember someone you haven’t seen for over 25 years, but at least make the ‘I remember you’ scene believable, maybe over some quirky thing like the marshmallows, but not with the name thing.

Nathan 🤝 Rosie’s privacy. And that’s all I’m gonna say about it.

I’m seriously intrigued by Tony Stoleman, but I don’t know if I will read his story.
No just kidding, I know I will read it because I’m too curious. I just hope it will surprise me like “Love, Utley” did, so let’s hope for the best.

[Jocelyn]

DNF at 25%. I can’t tell if I’m just a robotic asshole or the premise is ridiculous. Maybe both? Rosalyn was 8 years old when she last saw Nathen. He was 12. They were best friends until he moved away. And when they meet again TWENTY FIVE years later, it’s instant chemistry and Nathan’s like “It feels like I already love her.” What is happening??? I have a 8 year old. I’m having a really hard time imagining a relationship at her age that would leave that much of a mark after two and half decades of life.

Also, the author’s writing style is driving me nuts.

So many short sentences.
Just to drive me to crazy.
To make me wonder how I got here.
And why I’m still reading.
I’ll never know.

So yeah, not for me. I loved Dom and Hans, but I think those were the exception and not the rule for me when it comes to this author.

[Cheesy (Rhysand's wife) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5 💫

Okeyyyyy me gustó pero siento que me falto algo. La relación de Rosie y Nathan fue muy linda y tierna (con su toque de drama, claro) y eso era justo lo que buscaba, así que ame eso.

Tengo que hacer la mención honorifica a Charles, el gato de Nathan. Amo cuando las mascotas tienes protagonismo.

Lo del padre no me lo esperaba, la verdad. Pero lo de la carta, sí.

Él hecho de que Nathan estuviera dispuesto a pasar a la otra vida al padre me parece lo más romántico del mundo por supuesto JAJAJAJAJA.

Y, hola? QUIÉN ES TONY Y POR QUE AÚN NO TENGO SU LIBRO?!!! I NEEDED 😔

El TILLYVERSO poniéndome a Savannah y King. Me encanta el hecho de que ella lo logrará 💖.

[Ellen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Has this author met a man? Because a hot bachelor millionaire that has an extravagant cat tree is like weird lady fantasy 101. And this millionaire’s penthouse has a shower with a frosted sliding glass door??? Lololol no it doesn’t. Also the teeny chapters?? You might as well put each line of dialogue in its own chapter. And the dirty talk is SO cringe.

But mostly I don’t get the tone of this weird book. We start with something sad—their childhood bond, her abusive dad—and then we immediately pivot to Unexpectedly Horny. Fucking lunacy.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this one! Rosalyn and Nate’s story was so sweet and super spicy. S.J. Tilly really knows how to write the perfect book boyfriend, they always know exactly what they want, and won’t let anything or anyone get in the way. This book was so good, I will definitely be rereading it.

[Raffaella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sweet, really.
There’s nothing wrong with the hero, he’s the best.
He and the heroine were neighbors and childhood friends until he left because his family moved in another state. There’s no second chance here because they were still children, he was 12 and she was 8, so there were never romantic feelings.
The hero also leaves his address for the heroine to write him but he accidentally gives her a wrong one and when she receives her letter back she is shattered. The hero was her only friend and her only beacon in a life that was a living nightmare. She lived alone with her widowed father who was abusive and violent, she never said anything to the hero until the last day when she hinted that she was unhappy.
The hero becomes a famous football player, she follows his career.
25 years later they meet again, he has retired, and he doesn’t recognize her and starts flirting with her, she is heartbroken because he didn’t recognize but they make out and he eventually recognize her.
Well, I can’t say I can blame him, because I am sure I would never recognize a friend I’ve not seen in 25 years and lastly saw when he or she was 8. It’s impossible.
He actually waited for her to write but she never did, so he eventually moved on with his life, and who can’t blame him, it’s what everyone would do, because he didn’t know she had the wrong address.
Yes, maybe he could have written to her too, so she could have had the right address from the envelope, but they were both children, to me he didn’t owe her more than he did.
The truth is she kept writing him letters that she never sent, a kind of journal where she wrote the worst of her abuses.
The hero after recognizing her is truly chagrined and sorry, he feels remorseful and this is something that keeps feeling for the rest of the story, he feels guilty and remorseful because he didn’t help her and he left her by herself. But I don’t think he was even guilty, he was just a kid and she didn’t actually tell him her father was abusing her, and anyway what could he have done. He keeps telling himself he should have done more and tries in every way to make her feel special. This is also a case of insta lust and basically insta love because the hero after seeing her the first time, keeps dating her and in a very short time they live together. He was really super sweet. There’s a difference between them, she could recognize him because she saw him often as a famous football player, and she recognized his name, and of course she doesn’t blame him because had she not seen him and heard his name she wouldn’t have recognized him as an adult.
She has another secret, and I must admit the hero behaved like a champ, and he was a true hero indeed.
What else. It’s a sweet and low angst story, the heroine managed to become a business owner, very successful and she had many good friends, she dated and had men in her life, not many but some.
The hero also dated but he’s not a manwhore and never had serious women or was married before so to me it’s ok.
Beside the childhood interludes to me it’s as if they’ve just met as adults, there’s no conflict or drama because of course they were both too young and the heroine never talked to him about her fathers abusive behavior and he couldn’t know. But he blames himself and this was really sweet.
I could recommend it, as a sweet and romantic story with a very nice hero.

[Amanda Lantz · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am lucky to have been chosen to read an early advanced readers copy of this book. I absolutely loved this story from the beginning to the end. I laughed out loud and cried like a baby!

[Mehak Gill Kaur · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favourite reads of the year! I really thought the second book would be a little bit disappointing than the first, as i have seen in other series but of course this is SJ Tilly we are talking about, she never misses and she didn’t with this one either!! Loved it 🥰

[❥ Tracy]

DNF 40% 😵‍💫

Choppy writing style, instalust, unrealistic writing of children

[Mayssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book WOWWW! Now I’ve seen some reviews that will probably make people sway away from the book, and I just want to clarify a few things.

FIRST OF ALL, I’ve seen a lot of one or two star reviews annoyed that he “forgot her” or “didn’t recognize her,” and they are mad because she did and he didn’t. Now let me clarify why this makes perfect FKN SENSE when you read the book. They are currently 33 and 37, the last time they saw each other, SHE WAS 8 YEARS OLD. No FKN SHIT he did not recognize her! What world would you recognize someone if you haven’t seen them in 25 years, and the last time you saw them THEY WERE EIGHT?

Now, the reason why she recognized him was, firstly, when she was 19, on the TV in the hospital, she heard the announcer say his name and saw what he looks like. She said multiple times MULTIPLE TIMES and even to him that if it wasn’t for the announcer saying his name, she would have never recognized him. So when they first met again after 25 years, she STATED she only recognized him because of that. She also wouldn’t have recognized him!

As for the other comments about how he “forgot her,” as soon as she said his name( nobody calls him Nathan only she would), he clicked on STRAIGHT away. It’s been 25 years, and he said yes, he hasn’t thought about her for years. After Rosie didn’t send letters, he started moving on, as any normal 12-year-old would after their 8-year-old best friend doesn’t contact them. The same goes for Rosie; she went on for years forgetting him too. After the age of 19, she went on to work multiple jobs, had a 3-year relationship, and started her own business. She didn’t think about him either unless it was one time here and there, and she never moped around watching him play on TV not even once! She was too busy to think about him. only before the age of 19 did she constantly think about him he was the only person that had an impact on her. she wrote her last letter to him at 19.

Anyways read this book!!! So damn good

[ApoorvaReads · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars ⭐️

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the first book in this series but I think I enjoyed this one even more! It still had that combination of tender and spicy but it also had an emotional component that broke my heart. Andi Arndt was one of my very first favorite narrators and she still is and Christian Fox is just 🥵

[angelictaleslibrary · Rating 5 out of 5]

“We were only meant to be letters in a box”.

I’m absolutely obsessed with this series it’s so beautiful, my heart aches from all Rosie went through.
The chemistry the love between both Nathan and Rosie was so beautiful it made my heart melt

Omg this book 😭😭my heart 💔 it truly ached, I cried so much, I swooned, my heart melted this series was truly heartbreakingly beautiful

This book was everything and more I honestly love both books. I’m absolutely 💯 getting these books for my trophy shelf.

[Louise · Rating 1 out of 5]

Annnnnd she’s crying sad tears over the time she saw her childhood friend (friends when she was 8 and he was 12) on tv as a football star. I think I’m out with this series. These women just cry all the time. And I can’t stand the ‘but why me? Why do you want to spend time with me’ shit all the time.

I still maintain that this author has written some absolute corkers. This series is not one of those.

[Lisbeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Este tiene la misma fórmula que todos los demás: una mujer sin personalidad y un macho alfa sexy, grande y seguro de sí mismo. No puedo soportar el diálogo interno y, honestamente, las escenas obscenas fueron horribles.

[Cat H · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.7 stars.
🥹🫠… this was so good, and so heartbreaking.

[casey · Rating 4 out of 5]

such a sweet and tender childhood friends to strangers to lovers story <3

[Christy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nate and Rosie are actually the fucking cutest 😭😭😭😭

[ronniesus · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5
i don’t like the chapters that are one paragraph long

[♡Naz♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Now be a good Girlfriend and Come for Me."
🥵🫠🤭 "Me on the floor."