An entertaining and well written romance. Great plot, characters and setting. Romance readers will enjoy this book. I received an arc from the publisher and this is my unbiased review.

One In a Blue Moon is a second chance at love story. I liked the book. It does drag a bit but I stayed with it and I am glad I did. The characters are fine and some more quirky than others which I find endearing. The writting style was fine. Overall this is a good story for a end of winter read

Laney was devastated when her husband passed away and since then she has focused on her business, her dog and her friends. What she doesn’t need is for her first love and the man who broke her heart to re-appear in her life.

Adam regrets not only leaving Laney but that parts of their relationship was featured in his bestselling book. He has been suffering writer’s block but from the moment he sees Laney she is inspiring him both personally and professionally.

This is a heartwarming story of love, family and healing. Laney’s and Adam’s journey wasn’t without its setbacks, but they showed that anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Once in a Blue Moon
By Amanda Ashby
4/5 🦄

This book was unexpected and very sweet! The story follows Laney—a widow, a florist, a great friend, and unfortunately the ex of a famous novelist who wrote a book about their entire relationship...making her look like a psycho and a stalker. Even though not all of it is true, when novelist Adam shows up in her small (but magical) Oregon town for a signing, she tries to avoid him at all costs—including climbing up a tree! But when it turns that the town is just the right place for Adam to start writing again, he decides to stick around until he’s finished. Unfortunately for Laney, who has kept mum on their whole past book included, he ends up as her neighbor.

I loved this premise and I adore small town settings. The cast of quirky characters was so fun and just what any small town needs. The romance was sweet and exciting. It was a bit like Austen’s Persuasion in that it was about falling back into love—but mind those sexy bits! Jane couldn’t have those! I really enjoyed the complexity of their relationship and the way they had to deal with their past. However I felt like Laney’s character needed to develop more. Or there needed to be an actual confrontation about her evasiveness and her hesitancy. Adam and Laney don’t really get that kind of arguing even though it seemed like it was building up to it. Either way it was a fun and cute and slightly quirky small town romance I could get behind. Check it out!

This book had a lot of push and pull between the two main characters, with the back and forth there where times that the book felt like it dragged. I felt sometime the author tended to repeat some of the story as well. I loved Tilly hands down she was my favorite. She is quirky and you never knew what was going to come out of her mouth. She also always said something wise she just made me hope that I have some one like that in my life. Sex is talked about and indicated but never described in detail so may be suitable for most readers. Over all the story was a cute read but you do need to be patient when it drags. I would say if you read the first book grab this one it was fun catching up with the other characters from that book.

Once in a Blue Moon is a sweet second chance romance. It is about Laney George and Adam Fitzpatrick, who were once in love. After their romance ends, Laney is very bitter toward Adam for what she sees as a betrayal when he wrote a fiction book and obviously based a character on her. The worst parts of the character are fictionalized, but Laney has lived in fear for sixteen years that someone will realize the horrible character is based on her and think she did those things. When Adam turns up in Laney's town for a book signing, she is appalled. Hiding from him doesn't work, and before she knows what has happened, she's not only seen him, but suddenly has him as her neighbor for a couple of months.

I liked the characters of Laney and Adam. Laney frustrated me some, but I thought that Adam was great enough to make up for that. The second chance storyline was a good one, and I enjoyed reading the story of Laney and Adam.

A sweet story that made me smile, root for the character and wish I lived in a small town like the one described in the story.
It was an engrossing and entertaining read and I strongly recommend it.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

A sweet, heartwarming tale about two ex’s who have to face things they have said and done to each other. I loved the town, the residents and the scenery. Laney and Alex were well rounded characters and I’d love to read more from this town

The story of Laney and Adam was a second-chance, enemies-to-friend, once-in-a-lifetime love story that had all the feels.

I was drawn in from the first line and enjoyed every moment of the story. What made this story even more interesting was the quaint town that made its tourists--and residents--feel at home.

I enjoyed meeting all of the characters and would love to read more books set in this background especially if there's the chance to glimpse Laney and Adam again.

I received an advanced readers copy from NetGalley, a positive review was not required.

Ashby brings class to an often times heartbreaking tale of forgiveness. Once in a Blue Moon is a trek through conflicting emotions, long withstanding mistakes and perhaps a second chance to make everything right. Yet, foolish pride can be a bitter pill to swallow when it comes to matters of the heart. A hauntingly, predictable tango into love.

This book left me with some mixed feelings. I really liked and enjoyed the story, yet I finished the book wondering if I really knew the heroine or if SHE even knew herself. She seemed to spend A LOT of time worrying about what others thought of her and that she conform to some kind of role, but I never understood WHY. On the other hand, I felt that I knew the hero so well, and could even pick up on the those little special things about him. There was a nice bit of humour in this story and it kept my interest from start to end. Overall, an enjoyable story. *I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and this is my voluntary and honest review.

Once in a Blue Moon by Amanda Ashby a heart-warming five-star read. St Clair just sounds like such an idyllic place to run away to, it really feels like one of those places that you could run away to and start-over, much like Laney George managed to do, she may have moved with her husband but she became someone new when she moved in. The place just has the magic, and its that magic that meant that Adam Fitzpatrick came for a book signing and reading and found the inspiration for a new bestseller, as he had one amazing story wrote about an ex-girlfriend and the following novels have been lacking something and have been minor flops, he needs the inspiration, but is it St Clair that inspire him or a certain ex-girlfriend, one who moved on and away. This was an inspiring story, and a great one to bring you some joy to your life.

Laney has a secret!

Laney George is finally picking up the pieces of her life after the death of her husband and thinking about dating. Laney never told anybody that she had dated author Adam Fitzpatrick a long time ago when he showed up in town for a book signing. Laney never wanted to see Adam again after they had broken up and then he used their relationship in his best-selling book Blue Moon. None of the books that Adam wrote after Blue Moon were as popular as Blue Moon and seeing Laney helped Adam in writing his next book but Laney wasn’t happy he was living in town.

Laney and Adam both had reasons for being upset with each other especially Laney feeling that he had based one of the characters in Blue Moon on her. The setting of the book in St. Clair with all of the quirky characters made the book for me because I could picture each of them. I would give Once in a Blue Moon 4 ½ stars if I could.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I received a copy of an ARC of this book through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Laney George is a florist in the quaint little town of St. Clair, Oregon and she has a secret that no one in town knows; her ex-boyfriend wrote a bestselling book after their break-up years ago, which painted in which “Nina” and the main character break up, and she turns into a nutcase. “Nina” becomes one of the country’s most hated book characters and Laney is terrified that people in her life will find out she dated the author Adam Fitzpatrick and put the pieces together...and no one will believe her that she was not the crazy woman that was portrayed in the book.

A book tour brings Adam to St. Clair, and Adam and Laney struggle to get past old wounds, while struggling to ignore the old attraction.

I loved reading this book and was pulled in from the start. It is a fun book to read and the writing style makes it a pleasure to read. St. Clair is a charming town with colorful, quirky residents that will make you wish you could befriend them in real life, It is a sweet romance, with its share of complications between the main characters, and also with other friends and family. I am looking forward to seeing what develops for this town in future books, and I immediately bought the first book in this series, as I had not realized this was second in the series until I looked the author up online - you do not have to read the first to enjoy this one. If you like small town romances without a lot of graphic love scenes, give this one a try!

I'm a sucker for a cute, well-written romance and this was spot on. The author painted a beautiful picture of the town of St. Clair and its inhabitants, and created lovable side characters in addition to the main characters. It may not be the most realistic idea to have a famous author stop and stay in a small town just because of an ex, but the story makes plenty of sense given its setting and background.

This book may not have kept me up all night reading (that's usually reserved for mysteries), but it DID keep me from running errands and doing other things I should have been doing on my day off, which to me is the sign of a good romance book!