Cute second chance romance story. The characters were dimensional and well written the story was entertaining and a quick read. Finished in one sitting during a flight. Will read more from this author.

One Last Shot is a beautifully tender second chance romance I couldn't stop listening to. I absolutely fell in love with Emerson and Theo! (not to mention, Cayouette's storytelling!) And, of course, Brittany Pressley knocked it out of the park-as always. After I finished, I just had to go onto the author's website and look through Instagram for her Betty's Book List. I lost over an hour watching her act out the plots of recently read books, and added lots of her recs to my TBR Truly, a new author to watch! Highly recommend!!!

As a second chance and celebrity romance, this book really had an uphill battle for me personally, but it's an Illumicrate Afterlight pick and I like to try to read those ahead of time to see if I want the special edition. While this wasn't totally a hit for me for a few reasons, I did actually like it much more than I expected to based on the main tropes! I think the writing was good and I'm interested to see what the author does next.

Things I liked/loved:
- The Friends to Lovers aspect
- The Italian Setting
- The Writing
- The grand gesture!
- The Author's note in the beginning which acted as a trigger warning.

Things I didn't love:
- The CONSTANT miscommunications
- Emerson's immaturity
- The Celebrity aspect
- The use of the word "clean" in regards to STD testing results

I listened to the audio and thoroughly enjoyed the narration by Brittany Presley and Sean Patrick Hopkins. I always appreciate a dual narration and think the voice actors did a wonderful job bringing the story to life.

Thank you to MacMillan Audio and Netgalley for the eARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I ended up enjoying this one! I did waffle a bit just due to the body image concepts that came up quite often (ie Botox, being thin and avoiding certain foods, needing makeup), but I do realize the fashion industry isn’t kind. The timeline concept worked really well for this book! I would say definitely read the authors note and look up content warnings before reading. It was a sweet second chance at romance between high school best friends. The character arcs really made sense for both, which means the author put in a great deal of work to get there. I didn’t love some of the conflict near then end where it was mostly them not communicating about issues, but it again, made sense for the characters. Thank you so much to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy of the audiobook!

Miscommunication is present from beginning to end, proceed at your own risk. The book had lots of potential to be emotional, I was prepared to cry, but it never got there for me. The heavy topics mentioned in the book were discussed in a few short sentences then were avoided. A little more detail would help understand the characters.
The flashbacks helped explain the romance between Emerson and Theo from the beginning, while they got to know each other as adults. The love was still there after all those years.
The narrators were great, had engaging voices and personalities.