A lovely story about getting a second chance at love.
Relationships and love is hard and requires work, but when you throw in a whirlwind romance, marriage within a month and our MMC who has a career that takes him all over he country, it can spell disaster.
5 years later our FMC Eve is confronted with our MMC "Foster" when he arrives critically injured in her trauma room. Confronted withe feelings she though long gone she stays by his side as he recovers. Can the past be be forgiven, and past mistakes be overcome, or will history repeat itself. And this story asks one question - Is love enough?

I feel in love with Foster immediately and from the very first chapter I knew there was more to his character then what the first few chapters led us to think. Aimee Brown weaves a beautiful story of past love and hurt and a man who never ever got over what he deems the love of his life. She effortlessly captures the feelings of both our MC's with her beautifully crafted character building and descriptive writing. She beautifully navigates the emotions of the heart healing and reliving past pains and joys and opening up to the possibility of loving again.
The last few chapters had my heart aching.

This book is easy to read, and the plot wonderfully real and relatable. While dealing with some complex feelings of the heart this story is lighthearted and fun in parts. Thoroughly enjoyed this read.

Five years after Eve and Foster’s whirlwind romance fell apart, fate brings them back together when Foster has an accident. Eve, still listed as his emergency contact, finds herself by his hospital bed—and later, letting him move into her tiny apartment to recover. Old sparks fly as they share close quarters, and soon they’re both wondering if their story isn’t over after all. 💌

Still the One is a perfect reminder of how love, even when complicated, deserves a second chance. Aimee Brown’s humor, rich characters, and heartfelt storytelling make this book truly unforgettable. It’s one of those reads that pulls you in and keeps you rooting for a happy ending, all while delivering lots of laughs and swoony moments. 💫

I'm always drawn to romance books that has one of the love interests working in a hospital so I always get excited to see them!
This book was short and sweet and did exactly what it said on the tin. There were parts that I found jarring (including Eve's strange replacements for curse words) but overall it was a perfect book for a relaxing rainy weekend.

This is a clean, second chance romance. Our main characters, Eve & Foster, only knew each other for a month or so before they got married. Just a couple of months into their marriage, Eve decides to move back home to Oregon while Foster was on the road with his motocross tour, and they haven't spoken since. After 5 years, Foster is brought into Eve's hospital after a horrible motocross accident. Now they are back in each other's lives whether they like it or not.

I thought this was a great story idea and really pulled me in from the start. I stayed up super late reading it because I couldn't put it down. Buuuut around 70-75% I started skimming and losing interest. The last part of the book seemed very drawn out. There was also too much info at times. Like, the nitty gritty details of motocross racing were not needed. This story starts off with a lot of promise, but ultimately, it fell a little flat for me.

When your ex husband is rushed in to the ER room that you work as a trauma nurse. Reeling from his injuries and feelings that you thought had disappeared.
Invested in his recovery and taking him into your home. Friendship and questions resurface. Marrying after only knowing eachother for 30 days. Was it marry in haste and repent at leisure? Five years later and half a country away from each others home can it work out this time?
Root for a happy ending, whilst understanding both view points.

I enjoyed this sweet story but finding love again. Both Eve and Foster still loved each other but 5 years ago thought they got divorced. Foster is a motocross driver and Eve is an ER nurse. Foster is distracted during a race and has a horrible accident. Of course Eve is on shift when he comes in through the ER. The accident is bad. This forces both Eve and Foster to examine their feelings for each other. I love how these two reconnected and never fell out of love with each other. It was sweet. I laughed and cried. It was sweet cute read!!

Five years ago, Guy Foster & Eve Cassidy got married on a whim after 30 days of knowing each other. Soon after, Eve walks out. Five years later, Foster ends up in the hospital that Eve works at after an accident & Eve discovers she’s still listed as his next of kin & is tasked with taking care of him during his recovery.

What to expect:
✔️ second chance
✔️ forced proximity
✔️ extremely slow burn
✔️ no spice
✔️ dual POV

The premise of this book was interesting to me & while it was okay story-wise, it fell flat in some areas. First of all, I hated the single quotation marks. I know that’s not a huge deal for some people but for me it just makes it harder to follow the dialogue. Also, the reason for Eve leaving kept being hinted at but we never actually got the scene that led up to it. That seems to be a pretty important part of the story & why the characters feel the way they do, but we never got to see what happened. Including that scene would have helped the reader to better understand WHY Eve actually left.

Another thing is that it was a little too much of a slow burn for me. Slow burn is not one of my favorite romance tropes, but when it’s done right it can still be enjoyable for me to read. This book just took forever to actually get to the reconciliation/second chance part of the plot & kinda kept skating around it.

I would have enjoyed this book a lot more if we had gotten more details from the past & if the romance had started way before the last 10% of the book.

Thanks to NetGalley & the publisher for this ARC.

3.5 ⭐️

Five years ago Eve walked out on her marriage to Foster. So, imagine her surprise when she learns that she is still his emergency contact after he's rushed to the same hospital where she is a trauma nurse with life threatening injuries. Not wanting him to go through this alone, Eve offers to take care of him once he's out of the hospital, and sparks fly between the two making them both wonder if fate brought them back together for a reason.

Still the One was a cute and steamy second chance romance! Overall I really enjoyed Eve and Foster's story, but the ending was a bit lackluster, which was disappointing. Otherwise though, I liked this a lot!

Gorgeous, sizzling second-chance romance, told across dual timelines and from dual perspectives.

Five years ago, Eve and Foster married after a whirlwind 30 day romance which blew up just as quickly.

Today, having not seen or heard from him since their breakup 5 years ago, Eve has just started her shift in the ER when Foster is brought in with serious life-threatening injuries after his daredevil FMX career finally seems to have caught up with him.

Still registered as his next of kin, Eve tells a white lie so she can sit with Foster while he recovers in an induced coma in the ICU.

Foster thinks he must be dreaming to find the love of his life with him in hospital, but if she's actually real, is there still a chance for them after all?

I love all of her books, they are all done so well. This one did not disappoint either. It has everything you love in her books and so much more. Thank you for letting me read this book.

Thank you NetGalley and Boldwood Books for proving the arc in exchange for a honest review.

I enjoyed reading this book, however I felt the was something lacking towards the end of the book, with it being dual pov it was nice to read both sides of the story with small throwbacks included in parts of the story.

- This is a second chance romance book
- dual pov
- Slow burner
- No spice

Will they wont they? Should they shouldn’t they? A fabulously entertaining second chances romance. I loved it from beginning to end.

I absolutely loved this book partially due to my love for a good second-chance trope that gives true love a chance to take root. We've all pondered the what-if we'd met a decade or more after our first meeting and this book answers the questions about whether true love can grow at different stages. I would recommend picking this book up when it hits the shelves!

Eve is a successful nurse who's sworn off love after a messy divorce and a messier failed engagement. During a shift, fate strikes when her ex-husband is wheeled through her trauma bay with life-threatening injuries. She agrees to nurse him back to health despite the lingering feelings stirring between them.

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I really wanted to love this book, but in the end, it fell flat. It was billed as a "deliciously hot romance" for fans of Emily Henry, and I'm not sure that's very accurate. I adore her work, and this was missing not only the tension but the banter, wit, and depth that her characters possess. It was a slow burn to the point of absolutely nothing happening, aside from a couple of kisses and a closed door mention of intimacy at the very end of the book. Despite other books with similar intimacy still reeling me in, this left me bored and disinterested throughout most of it.

Flashbacks were utilized a lot, and I enjoyed the peek into their past selves, however she talks of everything spiraling out of control and her leaving, but we never actually get that scene. Missing out on that key moment left a gap in seeing why there was so much silence and devastation after they separated. There's a lot of tell and not show, ample back and forth of feelings and overt dialogue in current day, without feeling an emotional investment into the characters themselves. Choosing to show more of their history to build up what they lost would have been a better hook than dispersing it amongst them openly pining for each other through current day. It left tension and intruige at a consistent low, which made the book drag a bit.

When it comes to external characters, they felt underdeveloped. The intrusive sibling, family, coworkers, and friends were all odd additions that never really felt fully fleshed out. We didn't get descriptions or detailed dialogue to an extent that they were recognizable as unique and interesting individuals. They felt like additions to advance the plot or add comic relief. On that point, there were some really poor choices in adding diversity into the book. Phil is presented as an overly flamboyant gay character at all times. Constantly on show, over the top, and excessively stereotypical. Her coworker, who's like "Sophia Vegara," was presented as having her heavy accent, written out phonetically. It was cringe-inducing when she could have written that she had a thick accent instead of literally spelling it out. It's not the same as using vernacular that belongs to language, like AAVE or Scots, but spelling out broken English pronunciation felt so wrong. Dialogue does not need to be presented in that way, and it made me question why she added diversity if she was going to utilize it through botched stereotypes.

Overall, the book wasn't poorly done, but it made some odd choices and isn't something I'd recommend to others who are interested in a similar read.

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Thank you, NetGalley, and Boldwood Books, for the digital ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

A lovely, second chance romance.
I enjoyed reading this book and following the characters story throughout. I enjoyed the story development and the characters growth, all in all, a lovely, easy read.

'Still the One' is a second chance romance with an interesting premise, set mostly in a hospital and apartment while one of the characters is recovering from an accident. I probably should've known from the beginning that it wasn't going to be the book for me - I love travel, interesting adventures and different settings, and this one was as claustrophobic as it gets. There was a lot of longing and pining between the characters without much action or chemistry and their relationship, both present and past, just didn't feel realistic or captivating to me.
The book is well written and easy to read, it's definitely not all bad - it just didn't really meet my preferences of what I look for in a rom-com.

This book was so much fun to read! The banter and tension between Eve and Foster was jam packed and made it hard to stop reading. Foster and Eve were once married after a whirlwind romance that took them by storm. 5 years later, they’ve separated and are no longer in contact….until Foster gets in a terrible accident and fate brings them back together. While most of the setting is in a hospital and based in the past, the story brings such a cozy feeling. I enjoyed the side characters and the pacing leading to the happy ending. I’m giving this 4 stars because a lot of Eve and Foster’s inner monologues were kind of repetitive and led me to feeling annoyed at how often I read “we can’t be together for x or x reasons”. Overall, I would recommend this book if you love cozy reads with longing and second chance romances!

I loved all the side characters!! Phil and Genevieve seemed like they'd be alot of fun!! But I didn't love that there wasn't any spice in this book.

Overall, this was a cute read!!! And while I'm not a big fan of second chance romance (you always know how it'll end) I really enjoyed this book!! As usual, Aimee has written a book filled with great characters and moments and I'm really looking forward to reading whatever Aimee writes next!!

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read this book.

Five years ago, nursing student Eve and extreme sports motorcycle rider Foster met, fell in love, and got married in the span of a month...and then Foster went back to his life of travel and competition and Eve was left sitting at home. She left, leaving Foster with only a note and a demand for divorce and hasn't seen him since. Then, he's wheeled into her ER trauma room after seriously injuring himself during a competition. She can't explain it to her friends but feels compelled to be at his bedside while he's in a coma and starts to recover. When he's told he's not well enough to fly home, she offers up her tiny apartment and nursing ability to help him recover, insisting that she once loved him and it's the least she can do. It's pretty apparent that both have a lot of emotional baggage to work through but they still have feelings for each other. I absolutely loved this second-chance romance from new-to-me author Aimee Brown and can't wait to read more of the same author.

thank you Net Galley for an ARC of "Still the One" in return for my honest review!

4 stars!!

this book follows Evie (a trauma nurse) and Guy "Foster" (an FMX racer). they met, fell in love, and got married - all within 30 days!! their marriage fell apart, and she thought that would be the last of it, until 5 years later, he lands in her ER.

I am usually not a fan of "Insta-Love", but this was done so well and tastefully!! I loved the plot, it is such a fun idea and was well executed. I also loved that there was no spice, it was not needed!

my only complaint - I wish there had been more of the love confession and what came after! instead, the book ended. but it was so cute!!!

definitely would recommend this second-chance romance! a few things I specifically loved:
1. the Taylor Swift mention
2. the memory flashbacks were SO cute!!!
3. his POV in the hospital!