Billie has built the perfect life. Her practice as a doctor in New York City is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Their young love had been intense and true, but distance and ambition pulled them apart when she left Wisconsin for medical school.
Then one morning, just after accepting Dean’s romantic marriage proposal, Billie’s phone rings. It’s Mick—calling for the first time in nearly a decade. His news is urgent, and in a moment, everything changes.
As Billie boards a plane back to Wisconsin, the past comes rushing in—her friendships from home, the love she shared with Mick, and the choices that shaped them. What awaits her is a reckoning with what she’s lost, what she’s built, and what she still wants.
Gripping and deeply moving, Love You More is a story about the plot twists life throws at us—and how love, in all its forms, has the power to change everything.
This book felt like that one in so many ways. Different in others, obviously, but with a story that immediately drew me in and didn't want to let me go until I had finished the book.
This story is about everyone, Billie, Mick, Dean, Erin, and Phoebe. It's about the choices you make and how they lead you down a path and how that path isn't always where you thought you were going, but the end is exactly where you are supposed to be. And, you feel that through this book, the way the author makes the choices that feel wrong blend into being right.
There are really no villains in this story (well, one but that person is a periphery character who gets what was deserved) and I think that makes your heart climb into the story with all of them as they try to do what feels right and to figure out how to make what feels right into what is right when they don't always seem to be the same things.
I knew how this was going to end for most of the book. I am not going to spoil it, but there are also some huge clues that tell you, as a reader, where you are supposed to be leaning, and it's this that, at least for me, made some of the choices and events hit just a little harder.
But it also made the end just that much sweeter.
