4.5 stars 
 I predicted I'd be a crying mess while reading When You're Ready, and that was a spot on prediction. 
 Clare Murray lost her husband to cancer three years ago. Three years have passed while she's raised their daughter as a single mom and grieved the loss of Ethan. A trip to the ER with Maddie causes her to have to relive the fear and pain of the last time she was in the hospital. 
 Logan, the son of a well known millionaire, was not one to let emotion in, let alone emotion while he's working. When Logan walked into that ER exam room, he was shocked at his reaction to the little girl and her mother who waited for him. 
 For as long as it had been for both Logan and Clare since either had been in a relationship, this one was fast moving. I hesitate to call it insta-love (because there were no declarations of love, or even lust in that first meeting), but the attraction hit them both fast and strong. 
 Because Clare had been married before, and the death of her husband was so unexpected, it would have been easy for this story to be filled with comparisons between Ethan and Logan. Luckily, this was not the case. Ethan was not forgotten, evidenced by the photos throughout the house and the letter that resides in Clare's bedside table labeled in his handwriting, "When You're Ready," but it was not a competition for Logan to live up to Ethan's memory, even though part of what Clare still had to work through had to do with her grief and Ethan's memory. Thankfully it didn't seep in to her new relationship. 
 Logan had such an immediate protective streak towards both Maddie and Clare that it was neat to watch him realize just what that streak meant about himself. 
 Just based on the book blurb, I knew this was going to be an emotional read. (And just in case I haven't made it clear before, I'm moved to tears fairly easily.) What I didn't see coming was the variety of tears I would shed while reading this. There were happy tears, grieving tears, angry tears, and relieved tears: the whole range of tear-filled emotions. 
 And yes, I'm starting Never Been Ready ASAP. Both Leah and Declan are introduced in When You're Ready, but even with everything going on in her life, Clare noticed something was different about Leah after her one night with Declan. And I can't wait to find out what went down!