This was a good story about second chances and forbidden love. Estelle (Elle) was in love with her brother's friend Oliver when she was 16 and he was 19. Their relationship was a close one but, of course, he broke her heart when he left for college and never looked back. But she moved on, got engaged, and lived her life without him. The book begins 1 year after her fiance has died and Oliver is suddenly back in the picture. And, this time, he makes it known that he wants her and won't take no for an answer. This is where the complications really begin. 
 I enjoyed the writing and the plot and loved that the author used flashbacks to their past to help you understand the depth of Elle and Oliver's feelings. I liked Oliver and sympathized with his confusion about how to make this relationship work. After all, Elle was still grieving and her brother had forbidden any of his friends to get romantically involved with his sister. But, he was determined to have her in his life even though he wasn't normally a relationship guy and all of this was scary for him. Elle had a lot of feelings to deal with and Oliver was just one additional complication. Don't get me wrong, he was a complication she adored and wanted to embrace, but a complication non the less. These two had great chemistry and a lifetime of memories which made the romance all that much more interesting and intense and their baggage added to the difficulty of the situation. 
 So, you may be asking yourself why I gave it 3 stars. Well, although I enjoyed it overall, there were a couple of parts of the storyline that I found frustrating. The first was the thinly veiled attempt to make the dead fiance into somewhat of a villain. I don't think this plot was necessary at all and it felt to me like Elle was grasping at strings to make herself feel better about moving on...if she could find fault with her fiance, then jumping into a relationship with Oliver was somehow more acceptable. It felt forced and contrived to me. The second piece was Elle's brother's ultimatum that none of his friends ever date his sister when she was 16. It seemed a bit childish to continue to worry about that now that they were adults. It made me want Oliver to face this dead on...fight for what he supposedly wanted...but it took too long for that to happen in my eyes. And, lastly, I found myself a bit confused by their relationship at times. They seemed to be getting it all together and then the very next conversation implied that this wasn't so. It slowed down the pace of the book. 
 Now, don't get me wrong, it's quite a good read. The writing is great and there are some swoony moments that shouldn't be missed. In this case it may be just an "it's me not the book" kind of deal because overall I did like it...I just didn't love it...and I really, really wanted to love it.