K.J. Charles's Reviews > Georgie, All Along

A well-written romance about a woman who feels aimless and a man with a past.

The conflict is very much located in the protagonists' heads. Georgie is a highly successful Hollywood PA, returned to small town to help her heavily pregnant bestie. She's convinced she is a failure because her job came to an end for reasons of her boss leaving the industry. She's been fully and gainfully employed, got connections, got savings, but has a huge feeling of inadequacy because she hasn't made lots of plans for the future in her late 20s. (I will admit this part never quite came into focus for me: she appears confident, capable, happy, and professionally successful, and I just couldn't quite understand why she still cared about teachers and teenage dreams from high school, or why she was down on herself because a PA job came to a natural end on good terms.)

Levi does have issues: horrible parents, teenage misbehaviour, sent to one of those evil boot camp places, lots of trauma. He's had his head down ever since working to prove he's a good person, and he needs to see a lot more sun in his life. They're well matched, Georgie really stands up for both herself and Levi, and Levi values Georgie and works to change himself once he understands what he needs to change. If you like internal conflict and heroes who are angsty without being arseholes about it (rare and precious), this is the book for you.