Book Review: If This Was a Movie

Last week I read and enjoyed If This Was a Movie, book 2 in the Evergreen Park series by Morgan Elizabeth.

The novel follows Jules and Nate. Jules is a dance teacher in the small town of Evergreen Park and Nate owns and run his own contracting business in town. Jules has been a hopeless romantic her whole life until last New Year’s Eve when she met and spent 2 nights, after being stuck in a snow storm, with the man of her dreams and then see him at the supermarket later that way with a young girl and another woman, whom she assumes is his wife. She has blocked his number since then because she assumed he was married, and swore off men, dating, and her idea of romance and happy endings.

Nate has been thinking of Jules for a year and has wondered what went wrong. He thought he’d never see her again, despite both of them living in the same small town, but when his 5 year old daughter tells Santa she wants her father to meet and marry the real life version of her beloved doll and then she sees a beautiful ballerina outside on the street she thinks her Christmas wish has come true. The reality is a pipe burst in Jules dance studio, where she also lives on the top floor, and now she has nowhere to go. Little does she know that her friend/assistant at the studio is actually Nate’s younger sister, he has a guest cottage behind his house she can stay in, and he’s the same Nate that she fell for last New Year’s.

Now that their miscommunication has been cleared up, will Jules give Nate another chance? Can they get a second chance at true love?

I really enjoyed this book and loved Nate and his young daughter, Sophie, who loved to meddle. I liked Jules, but at times she started to annoy me because she was just so stubborn and didn’t want to give Nate another chance. I found this particularly annoying about it because even after she learns that everything she thought was a big misunderstanding and Nate has had feelings for her for a year, she was still super hesitant. I understand that the process of Jules learning and growing is a major plot point, but I felt like her stubbornness just lasted way too long.

Overall, though, I did really like this book!

Read this if you want a spicy, second chance romcom with the second chance and single dad tropes!