Review: This Will Be Fun

This Will Be Fun by E.B. Asher
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Beatrice and Elowen are best friends and are involved in a quest with Galwell (Elowen's brother) and Clare (Beatrice's friend/lover/enemy) to save their country.  They succeed, but at a high cost and become heroes.

Fast forward 10 years later.  No one is in touch with the other.  Beatrice refused her heroes pension and married into money.  She is now divorced.  Elowen has his herself away and avoided must human interaction.  Clare has meaningless one night stands.  Each is dealing with grief.  They are reunited because the princess, now Queen Thessia is getting married.  And as it turns out, they are needed for another quest to save the day.

I did like the setting; this is a romantasy with several different elements.  Think people enjoy their TV shows/movies/soaps on a tapestry, coffee shops, etc.  It had an interesting start and then got slow.  It did pick up.  I wasn't crazy about the ending.  

2nd chance romances are not a favorite trope of mine, this has 2 of them (Beatrice and Clare & Elowen and Vandra).  I thought each couple got into their feelings too much which resulted in too much back and forth.  I also thought, in general, everyone read as younger.  However, everyone was 30 or older.  

Smart Bitches Summer Bingo:  Magic or 30+

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