—Thank you so much to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the chance to review an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.


I loove second chance romances. So i wasn’t surprise to fell in love with this. Such a great couple with an amazing bond and chemistry.

I will always be such a fan of Jen Devon's writing! I was so happy to go back to the Brady family and their lovely vineyard. Jen writes such a lush and evocative setting and I am always a sucker for a second-chance romance with an edge to it that felt like enemies-to-lovers vibes at times. Temperance and Duncan are fire together!

Right Where Left Us’ by Jen Devon is a 4 stars out of 5 read.

I’m a very simple person - I see “for readers of Carley Fortune” and I immediately click that ‘Request’ button.

First thing I have to say is that the miscommunication trope rules this book (heads up for readers who don’t particularly enjoy the trope) and as someone with a guilty pleasure for the trope I was eating it all up. I loved the use of the second chance trope - it really highlighted Temperance (she goes by the nickname TJ) and Duncan’s chemistry and the angst was delicious. There’s a lot of push-and-pull but not in an annoying way but actually in a rather in a fun way. Even the secondary characters were great and I’ll certainly be there if Devon decides to write more about them.

This book is entertaining and I’d recommend it to anyone who’s looking for an easy, one-sitting type of read.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this e-ARC.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Beautifully and poetically written, this is a heartbreaking and heart melting book about second chance love, bravery and courage.

The cast of characters were wonderful but hard to keep track of at first, but filled the book perfectly. Dual POV worked seamlessly.

I loved it and can't wait to read more from Jen Devon.

I came sprinting for this story after finishing Bend Toward the Sun. I was so relieved to have another story in what I am deeming, “The Cloud Tide” world. I was thrilled with Duncan and TJ’s love story. And as a result…I now have a massive book hangover.

I love how through out Right Where We Left Us, Jen Devon, leans into romantic tropes…sometimes she fully gives into them and other times, completely flips them on their head and even has the characters calling them out.

The tension in this one is THICK but when it gets cut, whoa baby, buckle up.

We’ll bringing in both Bend Toward The Sun and Right Where We Left Us this spring!

I can’t wait to read more in this world from Jen Devon. I will be patient!

Thanks to St Martin’s and NetGalleg for the ARC!

DNF. I really struggled with the author's writing style. The pacing didn't feel natural and the descriptions felt long and unnecessary at points. I also thought the chemistry between Temperance and Duncan was lacking. Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Griffin for the ARC.

This was my first from the author although this is the second in the series. It was a solid second chance romance and I will happily read anything involving the Brady brothers. There were a lot of characters introduced in the beginning and it was hard keeping them all straight. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy!

I enjoyed this read. The miscommunication, or lack of communication, of the main characters had me a bit frustrated but it all wrapped up nicely and was a well written book!

I absolutely love everything about “Right Where We Left Us.” Duncan and Temperance are a complicated couple who made me question their relationship and whether they even still had a chance. I desperately wanted them to be together but had they been apart too long for them to ever get back the connection they had as teenagers? Were they just too different and focused on their careers to revisit that magical time in their lives?

Temperance had memories of Duncan to last a lifetime but she felt that there were more memories to make if they both just opened their hearts to the possibility of love. They needed to ignore family drama and their past mistakes so they could concentrate on how to live and love right now. Gathering at the Vineyard for a Brady family wedding was a blessing and a curse for both of them. Duncan had never stopped thinking about Temperance and being this close to her was tempting and confusing at the same time. Temperance had too much on her plate right now to deal with a summer romance, but would it really be all that bad?

Ms. Devon’s writing is visually appealing, poetically romantic and heart wrenchingly emotional. I felt the need to read the book again so as not to miss a tender gaze, a sexy wink or a heartfelt tear. The beauty of the vineyard wrapped its magic around everyone as they celebrated, laughed and made plans for the future. This sounds like paradise to me; where dreams come true and all days end in a happily ever after.

Overall, I enjoyed this book! It was a quick read for me. Throughout, I was a little unsure of the stakes and history between TJ and Duncan, but I loved the relationships with side characters — I’m a sucker for big families who adore each other — and the dual perspective.

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martins Press for this ARC!

I loved premise of this book, and while it was fluffy and cute - the plot and characters did fall a bit flat for me.

I felt like I never really got a feel of the history between TJ and Duncan, and honestly so much of their past (and even currently) could he been solved with some communication.

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book!
All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Jen Devon is literally an incredible writer and I leave every book of hers feeling dumbstruck. BEND TOWARD THE SUN was among my top top top books last year, and so I went in with high expectations, and they were absolutely met.

Devon does FRAUGHT very, very well. This book is tense and so heated and it's filled with lush, evocative prose set in the same landscape as BTTS, which I loved. The Brady family is as lovely and chaotic as ever, and there better be a Malcolm and Frankie book because I am READY.

But the romance here is just absolutely stunning. Devon makes these people so absurdly real, from how the smell and taste and talk, and you really feel just dropped into this little slice of life she's concocted. It's a quiet book like BTTS, and the conflicts are far more internal than they are external, but that's a feature to me, not a bug. It's rich and cerebral and psychological, and I particularly loved the dynamic between Duncan and Temperance, how open he was in his desire/need for her, and how scared she was. Once again, Devon loves an emotionally available man and an anxious, hesitant woman, and once again, she makes this work so deliciously. The steam is a highlight, as it was in book 1 too. Extremely sexy and well-done. I HIGHLY recommend this author, and desperately need a third and fourth and fifth book!!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press of the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Super excited to have read my first arc read and not have it be a bust. I liked the plot of the story and the characters. I love how the author gives the reader details of the scenery makes me wanna go find this place! It doesn’t keep me hooked as sometimes I felt I was reading too much extra information, but it wasn’t enough to where I’d want to dnf. Mainly because I grew fond of the main characters and needed to see how it ended for them. Which was, in my opinion, so cute!

I absolutely adore a second chance romance with dual POV’s so I was really looking forward to this one. I liked the characters and thought they had great chemistry. I really loved the setting and the authors descriptions of it were so beautiful and had me wishing I was there.

I seem to be in the minority with my opinion but I genuinely do not understand how. Before requesting this ARC, I was hesitant because my memory was saying I didn’t really enjoy this author’s first book, yet when I looked, I’d given it 4 stars. So I requested this one thinking I must’ve forgotten something.

Then I started reading, and realized my initial memory was correct. I went back to the review and read it and apparently I forgave a whole lot of issues because I loved the characters and their relationship, but with this book, those issues were HUGE and made this book a slog. The pacing was awful, the writing is WAY too flowery and over described, the array of side characters is way too wide to keep track of seeing as all of them continue to appear consistently, and the relationship - to me - has zero chemistry. There’s no reason the two leads can’t be together for most of the book, meaning there’s no stakes and only frustration from my end as a reader as to why they aren’t together, and I honestly did not care or want to root for either of them. Like, they literally felt like they truly hated each other at times. Like they were two toxic people stuck in a tailspin they couldn’t escape, and I wanted nothing to do with. In fact, there were two side characters dancing around each other on maybe a total of 10 pages throughout this book and I cared more about them then the characters whose story this was.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press of the ARC of this book in exchange for a review. This was a super enjoyable and quick read and had a good amount of depth for a romance book. I would say this follows a similar style to Lucy Score, Corinne MIchaels etc. It is a fairly predictable second chance romance but often times, when people pick up a book like this one, that is what they are looking for. I would definitely read more books by Jen Devon in the future.

Temperance is a 30 something pediatrician with parents who cared more about ambition than raising their children. She has always done what will keep her in good standing with them except for her brief but lasting love with Duncan. at the age of 18. Duncan has always fallen into line with what his family needs and has been made to feel like he can't have ambitions of his own. This book is the story of how they find their way back to each other. As with a lot of romance books, I feel like their relationship falling apart has a lot to do with miscommunication. I enjoyed reading how it unfolds for them, but it is a super SLOW burn.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I enjoyed reading this book. I really liked the characters and I felt like they had a lot of chemistry. The dual POVs really provided a lot of insight into the characters' feelings for each other and also their past relationship. If you like YEARS of pining/angst and second chance romance, this book is for you.

The Brady family is so cute, and I can definitely see another book happening with another 2 characters. I didn't know there was another book on Rowan and Harry that came out before this one, so I'm going to go read that one as well!

I just wanna start this off with how much I truly loved Jen Devons first book so I went into this one with high hopes. While I do just love the way Jen writes and how beautifully she describes things I found myself endlessly irritated by the two main characters. I understand maybe the goal was a slow burn romance, but for me within the first 5 chapters its established that they love eachother so it really ruined any slow burn tension and instead just made the will they wont they TIRESOME. Like dear god why can't they be together? I am not sure either character even really knew???? I also just felt like everything was on Temperances terms and that rubbed me the wrong way.

To sum it up, was it beautifully written? Yes. But did I at some points want to literally throw my kindle and yell MAKE UP YOUR MIND? Also yes.

What’s a romance book without the jealousy scenes? I wouldn’t know because this book served that and so much more. I was beyond excited when Devon announced that there would be an another book in the same world as, Bend Toward the Sun. And it didn’t disappoint. This was so fun and entertaining.

Though I sincerely enjoyed Devon's debut, I just didn't have the same love for this one and I ended up DNFing. When second chance romances are good, they're really good; when they go wrong, they go really wrong. And, unfortunately, this is the kind that bugged me from the start. Things are definitely messier and more dramatic than I'd like, so I had trouble rooting for either character. The writing itself is solid, I simply didn't connect to the story. I'm sure other readers will have a better experience, but it was a DNF for me.