FORGET ME NOT - Julie Soto

4.5 stars

Wow, I loved this a lot. In the high-stress environment of wedding planning, two people collide over and over and find that sometimes, second chances work out...

Forget Me Not is the story of a chaotic wedding planner and a grumpy florist. Ama doesn't believe in long-term love, but she's committed to bringing everyone's dreams to life with customized and personal wedding days. Elliott's the reluctant son of a florist legacy who never wanted to work with flowers, but he discovers that creating architectural floral masterpieces is his true calling.

They made an odd pairing, but they worked.

Until they didn't. And everything fell apart.

Now it's two years after Ama and Elliott broke up badly. Ama's received the wedding commission of her dreams: an influencer and her bride want to use Ama's planning services for their showstopping wedding. The catch? They only want to work with Blooming Flowers—Elliott's flower service.

Neither Ama nor Elliott are able to turn this job down—it could make or break their careers and put them on the national map. So these two exes have to put their pride aside and work together.

With the pressure on and their lingering chemistry sparking the air... Anything can happen. Why not a second chance at love?

Y'all, I read this entire book in one night. I couldn't put it down. Julie Soto has a talent for compelling characters and scenarios and her writing just plain fun and funny. I laughed, I anguished, I couldn't get over the exquisite tension between Ama and Elliott.

My one caveat to this amazing reading experience is this: I didn't care for the dual-timeline style. (I know, I know.) I'm personally not a fan of flashbacks/flashforwards when they're used as a main plot device. This story alternates chapters from the present timeline and the past timeline in such an integrated way that a good 50% of the story takes place in the past. That's not my personal preference, so I kept wishing we'd fade that element away earlier in the novel and stay in the present for maximum dramatic effect.

However, that being said, I still loved this story and it's a new favorite!