An Unexpected Love Story: a second chance romantic comedy

An Unexpected Love Story by Ellie Hall is a part of the Falling into Happily Ever After Rom Com series. Catherine Kittredge has always played it safe when it comes to love. Preferring book boyfriends to real ones even though she dreams of love, marriage and a family. It doesn’t help when a ghost from her past appears in her path. Kellan Connolly, her nemesis and former love of her life, is the newest client at the publicity firm where Catherine works as a coffee-girl. When her roommate finds her old Boyfriend Book, she makes a dare with Catherine: go on five dates and pick one to be her Valentine. Catherine reluctantly agrees. However, each date fails to be her one true love and Kellan won’t go away. In fact, he has a secret. When he writes her a love letter, she has a decision to make. Will she take a risk and give him a second chance? 

I love second chance romances and I loved this book’s cute cover, so I was looking forward to a cute, sweet romance comedy. However, from the first chapter, I could not stand Catherine. I thought she was whiny and childish and it didn’t get better. Even with her “growth” by the end of the novel seemed off. The mystery to why she disliked Kellan dragged on for far too long that by the time it was revealed, I didn’t care anymore. While the reveal should have been emotional and an “oh my gosh” moment, it just wasn’t there. Even Kellan’s character was lacking and I couldn’t see why Catherine would care so much. Overall, I was bored and did not care for the characters or their love story. It was not the rom-com I was expecting. I will not be reading the other books in this series. I do not recommend An Unexpected Love Story. 

An Unexpected Love Story is available in paperback and eBook