I stopped after chapter 1 (6%). I didn’t personally find the writing style gripping or comfortable, but I imagine this will be an easy three stars, four for the right readers.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC.

Have you ever gone through a reading slump and a life slump? Usually it's tied together, where you can't focus on anything, and all of your relied-upon favorites don't bring you the same joy anymore, so you're unmoored and irritable and sad because there's no texture or magic in your life anymore? I have been going through this for the past couple of weeks, and—I say this with as little irony as I possibly can—THE LOVE REMEDY was the cure. Elizabeth Everett is always an immediate read for me, so when I received the NetGalley widget, I downloaded it immediately and only a little bit fearfully, because I was in such a slump. But I trust her writing, just like I trust Lisa Kleypas and Eloisa James to let me disappear into a beautiful story for a few hours (sidenote, I can officially say that this is better than any Kleypas or James novel I've read, it's now top of the list), so I started THE LOVE REMEDY this morning. Suddenly it was the afternoon, the book was finished, and I felt lighter and happier and full of magic again. Reading THE LOVE REMEDY, I could feel the dark, dreary corners of my mind filling with light.

This book is so exquisitely funny and moving and sexy as hell. If you are searching for magic in a novel, this is it. This is one of the best books I've read this year, and I'm already looking forward to rereading it.