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Genre: ✨ Contemporary Portal Fantasy | Age: Young Adult to Adult (16+) | Buy: Amazon or BookShop | ⭐See star rating

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Briar is taking a year off to read and write and try to get her old job at the local bookstore. Peter has a job opportunity to start an escape room in the same bookstore. They are both trying to overcome the hurt and mistakes from their past friendship.

Personal Review:

This was a sweet, cozy portal fantasy that had a lot of cute moments.

I loved Breezewood; being there was definitely my favorite part. I wish that we could have spent more time in Breezewood with the characters there. It felt a little rushed and always like the characters from our world were freaking out and trying to figure out how to get back. I really wanted to just sit there for a while and enjoy the scenery and the people.

The love story between Peter and Briar was cute. They were both pretty adorable and I like that it didn’t feel like it took them too long to start communicating, which is always nice to see. It was a little strange that it felt like Briar was admired by a couple of male characters. She was definitely not the only worthy female in the book, so I didn’t like that it took Briar admitting she liked Peter in order for the story to allow the other males to pick other females.

All in all super cute, I want more time in Breezewood and less time solving puzzles, but that all is personal preference.

Happy reading!

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