This is a love story that hinges on the theme of second chances. Leila is connected with a matchmaking agency, and she becomes entangled with a man who has been spending most of his time with younger women. What happens from there is an interesting look at relationships that can happen for people who have loved before.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

I enjoyed this title and the interaction between the characters until the end - I just felt introducing a new character in the last few chapters through the story off for me. In a way it made the story feel incomplete.

I throughly enjoyed this book. It is nice to occasionally discover a romance novel with middle aged characters. Well written plot with believable characters. I highly recommend this book. I received an advance ebook and this is my unbiased review.

A heartwarming entertaining novel of a middle aged widow who is relatively happy with her life, albeit perhaps a little lonely at times. It has been 5 years since Leila Brandt’s husband died and her daughter and best friend decide that she has been alone long enough. So, for her birthday they sign her up for a matchmaking service. Perhaps fate had a hand in matching Leila to her possible dating partners, but one of the men is Ayden Doyle, a contractor who she recently met through her interior decorating business.
Leila and Doyle begin dating, but for one of them their emotional relationship doesn’t mean the same as to the other. A decent book of hope and second chances. Thank you Netgalley and Spark Press for an Advanced Reader Copy. I voluntarily reviewed this book and the comments are my honest opinion.

And Now There’s You is the story of a middle aged widow whose daughter and best friend decide she needs to be dating so they set her up with a matchmaker. The story follows interior designer Leila as she embarks on the journey. This new to me author definitely has a way with words...lots and lots of descriptive paragraphs that move the story, but my main issue was I couldn’t connect to the characters.

I'm happily married at 46 but knowing this book involved a "middle-age" woman who found love, I was very interested. I was drawn to these characters from the start. It was so interesting to see how widowed/divorced, middle-aged characters approached love. I loved that it wasn't insta-love and that the insecurities that most women feel were still there. All around a really good read.

Leila Brandt is a woman in her mid-fifties, living in the Philadelphia suburbs and passionate about her interior design business. With a picture perfect model home and successful daughter living around the corner one would assume Leila couldn’t ask for more. But they would be wrong. For the last five years, since the untimely death of her husband Leila has done everything possible to keep her loneliness at bay and let her predictable routine pass the time away. When she begins a project with local architect Ayden Doyle, the comfort Leila found in the mundane starts to fade. Feelings carefully hidden begin to surface and Leila finds herself opening her heart to the idea of new love. In theory I like the premise of this story filled with hope and second chances - but the painfully tedious, stilted language, immature relationships and excessive details of decor was just too much for me. Easy read but I wanted so much more from this story.

I am never happy to give a book a negative review. But this book just didnt do it for me.
The plot was not compelling enough to justify its length and drawn out narrative. At first, I thought it was just the beginning that was slow, but the entiee book lacked momentum.
The characters had great potential to become dynamic, however, thus never happened and the story felt onesided and unemotional. For a story that was so in depth, character growth was missing and the ending felt pointless, there was nothing done to instill hope for the romance of the protagonists.
I am still giving it as 3 star review as the author must have taken great pains to write such a drawn out story.
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review and all opinions are my own.
Luanna

***And Now There’s You is the story of a middle aged widow whose daughter and best friend decide she needs to be dating so they set her up with a matchmaker. The story follows interior designer Leila as she embarks on the journey. This new to me author definitely has a way with words...lots and lots of descriptive paragraphs that move the story, rather than the character’s conversations being the main movers...lots of telling rather than showing. The story of a widow attempting to find love in her fifties should have resonated with this reader, who also was widowed at a similar age, however, I found myself wanting to skim rather than becoming fully engaged. I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book from NetGalley.