(Disclaimer: This book, and thus this post, is chock-full of content warnings. I don’t usually eviscerate novels, but this one deserves it. This book is still very much in print, to the point that new copies are being purchased and circulating. I went into this knowing full well that romance has changed immensely since 1994 (THANK GOD), but also curious because my library copy was almost pristine. I’d never read this particular author, but I know she’s a big name in romance, so I figured sure, why not. I didn’t find anything there that struck my fancy, but another group suggested It Had To Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Avon, first published 1994. So, approximately three million years ago, when I was naively and optimistically making out my lists for this year’s reading challenges (LOLSOB), I perused the suggestions for Book Riot’s 2020 Read Harder Challenge prompt for a romance starring a single parent.
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