I loved their chemistry, and I appreciated all the ways that Georgie and Levi encouraged each other to open up and made each other feel seen. A nearly 30-year-old girl goes back to her hometown and wants to do a list of things she wrote about in her journal at the time? Something I thought a lot about while reading is the idea I came across recently in an unrelated reading, positing that books don't belong to genres so much as they use genres.

The only person who gives Levi a chance is Paul, Georgie's peacemaker father, who invites him to stay in their vacant house until his house’s construction gets finished. The genuine and vulnerable nature of the characters, as well as their poignancy, are reflected beautifully in the pages. That is not going to appeal to me, and I was also constantly confused as to why Georgie kept referring to this journal as "the fic". Ultimately her men are always so much more than their tropes and, by the time she has peeled back the layers of them for us, we realise it is no longer the trope we are finding attractive but the person, with all his complexities and frailties and rough human edges. Further disclaimer: Readers, please stop accusing me of trying to take down “my competition” because I wrote a review you didn’t like.

He, too, has come a long way: From local troublemaker to local dock builder, Levi rose to many occasions - just not confronting his toxic father and, thus, he’s also estranged from his siblings for no good reason at all. She shares that the hybrid workplace adds a layer of complexity to all communications; Gallo speaks to how leaders must constantly readjust their communication models.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There’s Georgie’s relationship with Bel, Georgie’s relationship with her family, Georgie’s relationship with the town, Georgie’s relationship with herself, her past, and her future, and—finally—Georgie’s burgeoning relationship with the initially closed-off Levi. And as happens in most contemporaries, just as the protagonist makes some resolution on the main goal or journey, it ends. In Clayborn's case — and especially in the case of Georgie, All Along, which comes out in January 2023 — they're sweet and emotional and hot and often very, very funny. While it may have started slow, it picked up in a big way and left me with huge hearts (and a few tears) in my eyes.Levi, on the other hand, is the black sheep of his family, estranged from his father and siblings, and shunned by the townspeople because of the damage he caused in his youth. As Levi helps Georgie with this wishlist of sorts, they each have to let go of their difficult pasts and figure out what feels authentic to them in the present. They were both thinking words like "forever" and "mine" and "infinite" when they had barely even kissed.

Levi (the older brother of Georgie's teenage crush) was known as a troublemaker in his youth and is a loner, estranged from his influential family, running his own business. Every once in a while a book comes along that feels like a strike of lightning with its power and potency.I recently spoke with Amy Gallo about her new book Getting Along—How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People). Georgie’s best friend from school Bel also just moved back with her husband and is expecting her first child. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essays, web columns and other journalism? And so Georgie - who is lacking direction in her life after losing her job - decides that maybe going back and living out her high school dreams, one by one, might give her a better idea of who she is and what she wants. Georgie, 28 years old, in spite of being highly successful at her job as a personal assistant has recently been let go by her latest employer.