Review: The Hours of You by Fiona Collins

The Hours of You by Fiona Collins

Blurb from Goodreads:

Can twenty-four hours on an island paradise lead them to an unexpected reunion?

When Maggie accepts one last commission before retiring from journalism, she’s given twenty-four hours on a private island to interview former Hollywood heart-throb Ed Cavanagh. There are just two firstly, Ed doesn’t want anything to do with Maggie’s exclusive, and secondly, he’s the only man who ever broke her heart…

It’s a scenario she never expected—to be in paradise with a man she first met as a teenager but has been trying to forget for the past fifteen years. As each precious hour brings back memories of their tangled love story, Maggie is forced to confront the painful twists of fate that kept them apart. Was a different future for them ever possible? Is it still possible now?

They’ve both been burned by love in the past, but as the clock ticks down on their time on the island; will this fleeting reunion extinguish the spark between them for good? Or is it one last chance for Maggie and Ed to rekindle that flame to live the love story they always thought possible?

My Review:

 

I'm almost mad at myself for finishing this one because I didn't enjoy it and it was extraordinarily long. I found it similar to some other books I've read recently but just blah.  I didn't connect to the story or the characters and felt like there was a lot missing. I hope you have better luck!

The Hours of You came out earlier this month on February 1, 2024, and you can purchase HERE.  

When they were in love, it seemed the sun shone on them every day. When they were in love, when day became night, dark skies blanketed them in a velvet warmth and drew them closer together. Every hour they knew was succulent and miraculous.

Every moment they shared was a kind of paradise.

Sometimes she caught him looking at her, entwined in sloping grass on a seasidey summer's day, or in the pearly milk of a winter's morning as they lay plaited and half-awake in bed. She drank in the trace of his lopsided smile and his green eyes steady and true and full of love for her - for her! - and almost believed it could be forever, this love. That they would always be this way, lying in each other's arms and summoning their combined future to be both certain and endless.