The Pumpkin Spice Spell (Wisteria Cove, #1)

by Erin Branscom

the girl I left behind, now very much a woman,

It's been two years bro. She was 28. Not exactly the growing years.

We were young and just getting started in life when he up and left.

Seriously did I manage to misread twelve as two or something?

I think about what Willa said about never being with a fisherman.

She...she never actually said that. She said she wouldn't get on a boat

April Holloway—or whatever her new last name is. Tate’s mother. And she’s not alone. Randy is right behind her, along with two kids I’ve never seen before.

Seriously what the hell is going on with this timeline? You and Tate are 30 years old, but somehow Tate's mum has stepkids 20 years younger? Exactly how much younger is her new husband? Or his ex-wife?

I curl forward instinctively, threading my fingers into his hair, pulling him closer even though there’s still space between us.

...Aren't...aren't you on a ladder? Are you going up it backwards?

My body is trembling,

How are you not falling off the ladder?

I climb another rung,

Backwards, apparently. Weren't you at the top like two paragraphs ago?

the contrast of his rough skin against my softness

Straight people are so weird

Tate isn’t Dad or Phil. He’s safe. And he knows what he’s doing. And to be fair, you know that he’s a fisherman. It’s what he’s done for years. You know this. You can’t make him stop doing what he loves just because you’re scared.

Wow. Way to make it sound like your fathers were responsible for their own deaths. Thought the entire point was that they were both skilled, experienced, cautious fishermen. Also, sorry, but no. The man has started a whole new job. He has indicated multiple times that he's not really all that into fishing. Don't make it sound like she's being unreasonable *for taking him at his word*.

“Maybe I didn’t say it or spell it out. But why is it always me who has to go first?

Misogyny.