October 10, 2025

Love Deep by Louise Bay - ARC Review & Release Blitz

 

My life is basically a three-item to-do

1. Keep my eight-year-old daughter happy.

2. Keep my job at the elementary school.

3. Keep my big, scary dream of being a full-time artist locked up where it can’t break my heart.

Easy. Manageable. Drama-free.

And then Fisher Wright strolls into Star Falls.

Tall. Charming. British. The kind of dangerously attractive that should come with a warning label—or maybe a hazmat suit in my size. He’s here for eight weeks, helping a famous music superstar record her next album.

We have one harmless, flirty conversation at the local bar.
Then it’s wine on my porch.
Then stolen kisses by the falls.
Then… oh no, actual feelings. The big, messy, life-complicating kind I swore I didn’t have time for.

But his life is in New York. Mine is here. And long-distance fairytales? Please. They don’t come true — especially when there’s a kid involved.

So why is he making secret plans to get my art in front of Manhattan’s elite?
Why am I suddenly imagining him at my daughter’s soccer games?
And why does it feel like the only temporary thing here… is the eight-week expiration date we agreed on?

Small-town slow burn. Single mom sunshine and a grumpy Brit. Steamy porch kisses. And one very inconvenient, very irresistible love.



Juniper and Fisher have amazing chemistry from the beginning of this story. I liked their connection, I liked that they came from very different realities and from that were able to see things about one another that the other couldn't see. I liked how this was a factor in not only their relationship but how they each allowed the other to see things in the rest of their lives that wasn't previously obvious to them.

My frustration in this one was with the female lead character. She was, for some reason, unwilling to even consider finding a way to make them work.

While I understand her reasons, I never believed them fully as nothing about them seemed like it was worth giving up what they shared.

I found myself shaking my head with her a lot of the time. It wasn't enough to pull me from the story, but once they worked it out, instead of a sense of happiness they had done so, I more felt a sense of "well, obviously". It still had me happy that they were together, so the book still worked overall.

That said, I did like both of them, I liked them together, and I liked that this was more of a small town feel for this author than we are necessarily accustomed to.

I enjoyed and recommend this title.