FIRST COMES LOVE BY EMILY B. RIDDLE

First Comes Love is Emily Riddle's debut romcom and it's a total winner! I love how sassy and outspoken our female lead is and watching her grow was wonderful!

Rating: ★★★★★
​Release Date: November 15, 2022
Genre: Sweet Romcom
Series: The Kissing series #1
Pages: 372 pages
Format: eBook. Source: ​Author.

A woman who loves her child-free life falling for a divorced dad?
What could go wrong?

It’s no accident Andie Werking’s life looks a lot like her handmade goods boutique, fun, stylish and sassy. At thirty-eight, she knows herself and what she loves: expensive coffee, starting work around lunchtime, and late nights reading while snuggling with her spoiled Corgis. Building her business, cultivating strong friendships, making her adorable bungalow a home, and digging into a progressive church has taken passion and perseverance, and she’s got plenty of both.

However, her aversion to babies, children, and everything babies-and-children related has left Andie single for far longer than she ever anticipated. That all changes when funny, kind and stupidly handsome Dr. Joe walks into her life, bringing his custody agreement and three spirited children with him.

Now Andie, with her love of travel, takeout, and time alone, must decide–are compromising, and co-parenting worth finding the love of her life?

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First Comes Love is Emily B. Riddles debut novel and it’s a winner! Its quirky, relatable to stepmoms (or “maybe” stepmoms) EVERYWHERE and has an amazing cast of characters! I loved Andie. She is my kind of person for a few reasons. 1. She knows what she wants and is a no nonsense kinda gal. I’d say when we first meet her, she’s very stuck in her ways and has no intentions of budging. That it until the gorgeous single dad strolls into her life and makes her rethink what she really wants in life. This kind of growth in characters is why I love reading and Emily did a phenomenal job at saying what we ladies want to say but are too afraid to do so. Another reason I loved Andie is because she strong and independent. I’ve read so many romance novels where the heroines kneel at their men’s feet no matter what. That’s not the case here and it was wonderful to see her stand up for how she feels without worrying what the other characters thought. Finally, us readers see a lot in Andie that she doesn’t see in herself. She communicates through the novel that she doesn’t want children because she doesn’t want to end up like her parents and she doesn’t need the whole mess of parenting and being a good parent. But her interactions with these children is amazing and watching her “mom” for the first time shows us what kind of a woman she could be if she would only give herself a chance. That my friends is amazing writing!

If you enjoy single parent, clean romcoms with relatable characters and a sweet storyline then this is a must read for you! I’m already excited for the second book even though the author just released this one!


𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙:
• Clean Romcoms
• Single Dad Trope / Families
• Sweet romances

𝗠𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐