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📚 First person dual POV
📚 Last in the Bergman series 🥹
📚 College acquaintances
📚 Thriller author / Romance reader
📚 A deal to help eachother out
📚 Banter
📚 Forced proximity
📚 SLOW burn 🔥
📚 Hoard of adopted pets
📚 Meddling family
📚 Plant dad 🪴
📚 Well established secondary characters from previous books
📚 MC growth: COMMUNICATION 🙌🏻, feeling feelings, therapy 🙌🏻, risking a relationship, trust, people pleasing, expectations, overcoming past trauma & rigid ideologies
📚 Representation of familial trauma surrounding divorce
📚 Representation of chronic illness — Type 1 Diabetes
📚 Neurodivergence representation — ADHD
📚 Epilogue

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⚠️ Childhood trauma (divorce), drug abuse (secondary character), medical content (minor).

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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emotional funny hopeful slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Writing: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Plot: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Characters: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spice: 🌶️🌶️.5

Tropes: Mild Enemies to Lovers, Roommates, Black Cat/Golden Retriever, Found Family, Virgin MMC

3rd Act Breakup?: No

The Praise: I love the Bergmans so much. Getting to see glimpses of the whole family was lovely. I’m so happy Viggo finally got his happy ending! He was so sweet and understanding with Tallulah, supporting her as she worked through her family trauma. I also just always love that the Bergmans take in their kids’ partners and friends without reservations.

The Critique: The pacing felt kind of slow to me and it felt like a lot of the same over and over.

Final Thoughts: I’m sad the series is finished but I loved the books so much. Viggo was the perfect brother to end on.

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sdupont's review

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Chloe Liese’s writing is so heartwarming; reading her books feels like being hugged while wrapped in a warm blanket by the fire. This final installment in the Bergman Brother’s series is no different. I loved seeing the evolution of Viggo and Tallulah (separately and together). They both offered up such beautiful displays of vulnerability while opening up to each other. They supported each other’s growth without making the other feel small or big lovable how they already were. Viggo and Talluluh were such sweet sensitive souls who were destined to love each other. Honorable mention to the big wonderful Bergman family and all their significant others. I just loved seeing all the couples back together again. I wish we had a few more scenes with the siblings. All good things must come to end and let me tell you this series is definitely a good thing. Everyone needs to pick up this series you will not regret it!

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blakeandbooks's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I am ~extremely emotional~ about this book, and that this wraps up the Bergman Brothers series 😭 I was seriously on the verge of tears or crying for most of the book!!! It was everything I could’ve hoped for. I have been waiting for sweet Viggo to have his moment, and I felt like Liese did such a wonderful job with his and Tallulah’s story.

There is something so beautiful about two beautiful who are both a mess, understand that they need help, receive that help individually, and challwnge and encourage each other to grow. Viggo and Tallulah love each other through not only their words but their actions as well. Viggo sees Tallulah. Tallulah sees Viggo. Viggo continues to show Tallulah that he cares for her by making her coffee every morning, baking her recipes and letting her know the carb count so she can bolus the correct amount of insulin, and he reminds her that she’s brave for being vulnerable. Tallulah continues to show Viggo she cares for him by reminding him that he isn’t too much and anyone who tells him otherwise doesn’t deserve to be in his company, helps him around the bookstore and reminding him that his dreams are happening and he just has to take the leap, and she keeps showing up even when she’s terrified. I love them so much 😭

I also love the Bergmans, and it is surreal that I will no longer be waiting on the next installment. They are such an incredibly loving and wonderful family, and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to read these books. The scenes at the A-frame were so amazing, and I loved every second of it.

I highly recommend this series, friends. I’ll never recover from it, and I wouldn’t want to. 🫶🏻🪻

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dianaschmidty's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I am going to miss this series so much! I’ve watched the Bergmans grow over the course of the past seven books to the point of them feeling like a real family that I wish I could join. Each book is unique but also has each Bergman sibling feeling similar enough to feel like real siblings. This series as a whole also does such a great job at highlighting neurodivergent people and chronic illness, both of which I can personally relate to, so I felt so incredibly seen by this series. This was the perfect way to end an amazing series. This book made me laugh, cry, and dream for a love like Viggo and Tallulah’s. Their story was the perfect ending to one of my all-time favorite series.

I loved Viggo so much. As a person who works in a bookstore, pretty much exclusively reads romance books, has semi-unrealistic expectations for love given the books I read, and has ADHD, it felt like Viggo was designed for me to personally relate to. I also loved seeing a different side to him than we saw in the other books. He was always my favorite non-main character in the other books, usually providing great comedic relief (i.e. see one of my favorite scenes in Everything For You where he unintentionally (then intentionally) caused Gavin to get extremely jealous), but this book made him feel so much more well rounded, since we got to see that he hides so much behind that “goofball” persona. I also loved how he subverted most romance “hero” stereotypes. I mean, him reading romance novels alone makes him different than almost any other hero (side note: can Chloe Liese and Lyssa Kayla Adams team up for a crossover with The Bromance Book Club??)! And the way he talked about love was just so romantic and so full of hope in a way that many romances only allow the woman of the book to be. I loved watching him change and grow his definition of what “love” means to him.

I also loved Tallulah! Like Viggo, we’re given a description of her personality and demeanor that doesn’t quite match with the character we get to know. She hides behind the “scariness” that Ziggy attributes to her in order to keep walls built up. And I adore how she let Viggo smash those walls down. That’s probably one of the most special parts of their relationship, how she let him in. He didn’t force his way in. If he could have done that, they would have gotten together seven years earlier. No, she had to let herself dream of happiness and love before she could let Viggo love her or let herself love him in return. I’m sure I’m not alone in saying how I really related to how her parents led her to believe that love didn’t exist, based on what they demonstrated to her. I think there’s a lot of people like Tallulah that didn’t see a marriage like the Bergman parents’ to use as an example of what to strive for with love and I really appreciate Chloe Liese for giving that story not only to Tallulah, but in part to every Bergman spouse. The scene in the hallway with Tallulah, Willa, Frankie, and Rooney almost made me cry because the latter three really reaffirmed for Tallulah the magic of not just the Bergman family, but also love. No, it doesn’t automatically fix everything, but it does make things better and make a person’s load feel lighter.

Their relationship was cute. After waxing poetic about the aspects of each of their personalities that I loved, it feels weird to be that simple about their relationship, but it’s true! The two of them slowly falling in love as roommates helping each other figure out life felt adorable and simple, like they fit together like puzzle pieces. (Side note: I’m a little surprised that Viggo didn’t make a joke about the “and they were roommates!” Vine) Tallulah and Viggo really exemplify that John Green quote that I saw earlier today on my timeline: “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once,” and it was beautiful to read!

I am positive this will end up being one of my top books of 2024!

Thank you to Edelweiss, Berkley, and Chloe Liese for providing me access to this beautiful book.

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