Jacque's Reviews > Bottle Rocket

I hope to write a more descriptive review @ some point, but rn I just have to say that’s I think this might be a perfect book🙏🏻


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me looking at Bottle Rocket: “To me, you are perfect”❤️

Love Actually jokes aside, I do think this is arguably a perfect book. And after reading every other book in Erin McLellan’s So Over the Holidays, McLellan has cemented her place as one of my favorite/most reliable novella authors. Her writing just ~feels~ good, with every book effortlessly nailing the balance of easy humor and emotional weight. Of all the books in this series, I find it most impressive in Bottle Rocket🚀

This book finds Rosie Holiday freshly out of a toxic relationship & looking for her next passion project (lmao love that phrase) She walks into her fist still life drawing class when the model drops trou & she realizes two things ~very~ quickly: 1) this is not, in fact, the still life class, and 2) The (now very nude) model is Leo Whittaker—her first love, the one who got away

Leo and Rosie are very different people than they were 13 years ago, and while their present is *deeply* affected by their past, these two have worked through a lot of their emotional baggage. The more time they spend together, the more they realize that they never fell out of love. Leo and Rosie work hard to communicate openly, respect the other’s needs & boundaries, and find a way to love each other authentically & unreservedly🥰 and honestly, isn’t that the dream?

many thanks to @bookish.kelly and all of my friends who’ve recommended this one, its a keeper🙏🏻