The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

Published: July 16, 2024
Length: 399 pages
Format: Kindle Edition
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Setting: Napa Valley, California (United States)
Characters: Georgia Woodward, Eli Mora
POV: Georgia, first person

TROPES: second chances, childhood friends to lovers, one bed, forced proximity, found family, anxiety/mental health rep.

Review:

I don’t appreciate when authors try to push their political propaganda to readers because politics aren’t opinions held separate from life.

The story itself is really good, but I just cannot wrap my head around the “pregnant person” thing. As a woman and a mother I am deeply offended. There is just NO man on earth that can biologically carry a child for nine months and then birth them. Giving this power to men—because yeah biologically they are MEN, regardless of your beliefs or the way these MEN feel, it is absolutely baffling to me. Women already have enough of their space taken up by men historically, and now the only space that is truly ours, it’s being claimed by MEN? Sorry, but just because they feel like women it doesn’t magically turned them into one! I respect their sexual choices and life choices, but they gotta respect women too. Women are little by little losing more and more space in society. This is just disrespectful to us women that have already accepted too much in our history for just being women. So please the correct term is a pregnant WOMAN.

Biology cannot change, this is just a fact. When you die your body will be identify with the gender you were born into.

“How strange it is to have a first for the second time. How lucky and messy and perfect.“

“For past me, who didn’t give up, and for future me, who will look back on all of this and be so proud.”

“Time is a miracle. It shows you what you had, and sometimes it brings it back to you. Different. Better.”

“It’s a gift to know someone when you’re in love with them, and a curse when you’re out of it.”

BLURB:

Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend’s wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance.

Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago.

With the wedding of their mutual best friend, Adam, looming, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man, Georgia’s never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy—and still very present—feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool, calm, and compartmentalized.

What’s not on her list? Eli arriving from New York with a new rule-breaking attitude or the all-inclusive venue burning to the ground, leaving the bride and groom in dire straits. Nor does she anticipate Adam asking her and Eli to help him make a miracle happen. Together.

As Georgia and Eli rush up to Napa Valley to pull off the perfect wedding, their old chemistry comes back in technicolor. Somewhere between cake tastings gone wrong, disastrous DJ auditions, and Eli’s heated attention, Georgia starts recognizing the man she fell in love with before. And if she lets herself break her rules, she might find what they’re building isn’t the something old that ruined them—it’s a chance at something new.

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