Lia and Breaker were best friends for the past ten years. They celebrate everything together, spending time with each other daily. Why then, is Lia afraid to let Breaker know that she is newly engaged and her fiancé wants to seal the deal in the next five weeks?

This book is apparently a part of a series of books about the Cane brothers. I was not aware of this and this was my first book by Quinn. I found it to be a bit mid tier as far as romance books. While the spice level in the book was fun, I felt it lacked a lot of development which is shocking because the book was well over 400 pages. There seemed to be an accelerated time line between Lia and Breaker, which I could understand because they had been friends for so long, but it just seemed so abrupt to go from friends to being obsessed lovers. Not really sure, just know that this one missed the mark for me. I still will likely read the other books in the series, though, because the writing was easy to breeze through.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy of this book. All opinions within this review are my own.

The third book in the Cane Brothers series, A Long Time Coming is a typical friends to lovers story told with the spice and laugh out loud humor that I have come to love and expect from Meghan Quinn.

Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC. #Netgalley #Alongtimecoming #meghanquinn

Nice to have the story for the last brother. Typical friends to lovers story. Thanks for the advanced copy NetGalley. #NetGalley #ALongTimeComing

A Long Time Coming by Meghan Quinn is the third book in the Cane Brothers series. This was a great best friends to lovers story that focused on Breaker and Lia. They’ve been friends since college and are each other’s person – they bounce everything off each other and rely on each other for so much. This book had a slow-burn romance element to it, with the chemistry between Lia and Breaker finally meeting it’s boiling point and there is no denying that there is a level of spice between them! I’m a huge Meghan Quinn fan and this book didn’t disappoint!

A classic friends to lovers story. Breaker is asked to be his best friend Lia's "man of honor". While helping Lia plan her wedding Breaker realizes he is in love with her.

While the story line was cute, I found Lia's character really annoying. She was so wishy washy on things, yet expected Breaker to drop everything when she needed something from him.

This book was rough. With the constant back and forth of “No, he/she’s my best friend, even though we literally moved so we could live across the hall. And I don’t let men sleep over because our beds are right next two each other…etc.” Like be soooo for real. Also, you are really going to let your mother in law steam roll you into having a tacky expensive wedding in 5 weeks? AND your boyfriend doesn’t even like your glasses that help you see. Absolutely ridiculous. The one saving Grace was the sex scenes. Megan Quinn can definitely write a sex scene or 5.

If I had read the two books before maybe I would have liked it more, but alas the last book is not that great.

Almost lost me at the Secret Scrabble Sociegy and the level that she was stressing about it💀

I was so close to DNFing but I did end up skimming the middle part quite heavily.

Their banter was cute. Loved that they were nerds together and proud of it.

Did I really need to know that breaker sits to pee??

Most unrealistic part of this whole book was her admitting she writes Supernatural porn the first night she’s met someone 😂 I was dying

Her fiancé tried to get insider trade info from her best friend and she’s just blasé about it. Isn’t this the same girl panicking over breaking a rule of the secret scrabble society???

Why was she with Brian so long, he was terrible?

Almost tapped out again at the equivalent of an ad for Mikayla’s tiktok. Cannot stand that girl.

The immediate switch into Breaker being all dom was jarring and odd. And the excessive amount of sexual talk after they get together was too much. Im big into spice but can they get thru a day at Disney without each convo reverting to sex. I bet Breaker and Lia are that couple at a theme park making out in line for a ride.

Very fast paced once they got together which I liked. It made sense with their history and I feel like too many friends to lovers books have things move slowly once they get together.

Another great book in the Cane series by Meghan Quinn!! Oh my goodness, this one had me hook from the beginning! Much like the movie My Best Friend's Wedding, A long Time Coming is about two best friends who would do anything for each other--and that means when it's time for Lia to get married, her best friend Breaker has to help her navigate the murky waters of her very unkind, very unaccepting soon-to-be mothe-in-law. But as they are tackling tasks and run ins with the MIL, Breaker starts to see Lia in a whole new way. It's a very fun, feel good story that I definitely recommend!

I dug into this Meghan Quinn series after seeing it advertised on my Kindle a bunch, but after reading these three books, I'm not sure this series or Quinn's writing is for me. I find her MMCs a little unlikeable, though Breaker (the MMC in this book) was my favorite of the bunch because he oozed the least toxic masculinity. But these stories, and this book specifically, lack the depth that I'm looking for in a romance.

I just love the blue cover with cupids and hearts. The purple cover with fireworks is cute too, but I love that blue. As for the story, it is adorably sweet, funny, and romantic - My Best Friend's Wedding vibes for real! The wit and banter were perfection. I don't often purchase a print book to go with the kindle, but this cover will look pretty on my shelf.

a long time coming is sickly sweet, wonderfully slow-burn, and super spicy!
a great read to pick up for the upcoming valentines season!

When I saw that there were more books featuring the Cane brothers, I was excited. I had enjoyed the other two quite a bit, and was curious to learn more about the Cane family. That being sad, this book is not as strong as the other two. Breaker is an adorable guy, and I think this book would be a super cute movie that I would definitely watch, but it just wasn't that believable. I also have no idea what Lia does for work. Maybe it said at one point but I don't think it did? It was a little odd to me. The other books are so centered around the work lives of the characters, so it was a little strange to have this book just mention that Lia had work to do, but never anything more than that. It made her fall a little bit flat. I think the book had potential, but I just don't feel like the execution was really there. It was a quick and entertaining read, but definitely my least favorite of the three books. Thank you to NetGalley and Bloom Books for this ARC.

This book was a lot of fun to read! I enjoyed that the couple started as friends and I even enjoyed how Lia gets engaged to someone else at the start of the book. It was so rewarding to watch her realize she deserved better. I love how Breaker put his all into being her man of honor even though the process let him discover that he had deep romantic feelings for her. This book is friends to lovers and I enjoyed ever second!

Me reading A Long Time Coming was such a long time coming and I’m so happy I was gifted this to read with the new trade pub because it was the nudge I needed!

I read the first two cane brothers books almost exactly a year ago and loved them, so returning to this world and getting to know Breaker and Lia was so perfect!! Breaker is pretty much my dream guy so hello new book bf. It was sometimes over the top and cheesy but it was so sweet!! the smut was also SO good and original feeling and I ate up this book. Wish there were more brothers so I could have more in this world!

Thanks NetGalley, Meghan Quinn and Sourcebook Casablanca for the gifted copy. All thoughts are mine.

The name of the book sold me, as someone who is also a Swiftie, Megan gets me every time with her titles.

Besides the cover and title being adorable, so is the book. The mother in law drive me up a wall and wanted to make me scream.

I think my new favorite trope might just be friends not realizing their feelings because this was it. Absolutely recommend, it’s sweet, slow and worth every moment.

I think Breaker is my favorite out of the three men from this series. He and Lia are goals! The trope is best friends to lovers, and I love the MIL being involved in the story. Quinn is a master at her art.

This is a fun and spicy friends to lovers romance. I enjoyed that friendship, banter and chemistry between the main characters as well as all the wedding planning shenanigans that went down in the story. I also really liked that there were appearances of familiar characters from the other books in this series.

I absolutely enjoyed reading this. Although this is a part of the Cane Brothers series, this book can be read as a standalone. It’s a cute, lighthearted best friends to lovers story with some spice.

I didn't realize this was the third book in the Cane brothers series. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed this book as a standalone. Meghan Quinn's books are so much fun! I will definitely be buying the rest of the books in the series, because I loved this story!

I need to begin by explaining that I have not read the other Cane books and don’t feel like I missed out on anything by reading this one first- it can absolutely be read as a stand-alone novel. I just wished I knew about the other Cane books because I like to read series in order. This book had everything! I enjoyed the plot and the characters. Highly recommended this “ feel good” storey. I couldn’t put it down!