genre: contemporary fiction/romance
When Evvie, a recent widow, agrees to let Dean, a professional baseball player with the yips, rent out her basement, it is for practical reasons. She needs the money. She has a hard time ever leaving her house and she knows that having another person around could be good. She's already got a best friend and a community that is both grieving the loss of her dead husband as well as wondering when she's gonna get back in the saddle. So adding this one additional thing feels right.
But this is a romance novel, so we can guess how it will go - but it is also a lot more than that, in my opinion. It is about mental health and boundaries and the way we can be our own worst enemy in our head, especially when we can't bring ourselves to let the hardest parts out into the light. I felt the dialogue was actually quite good and Dean is both dreamy but solid, I believed that he could be for real - his pain and own brokenness tracked for me. I liked the small town Maine setting and I especially appreciated the arc of Evvie's emotional life showed a healthy way to put yourself back together again after something traumatic. I just enjoyed this novel a lot.
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