It Started with a Note (Love Started #2) by Meg Easton -- Review

About the Book

It’s their second chance at love—but this time their obstacles include thousands of miles, a cultural barrier, and a world-famous chocolate empire.

Avery Parks is proud of her farm girl upbringing, and now she loves her job in Admissions at the local college. But it’s nice and predictable, just like every other aspect of her life. Maybe it’s time to take a huge risk and have an adventure of her own by traveling to Belgium to see her childhood friend.

Nicolas Servais hasn’t chosen much about his life—not that the son of a world-famous chocolatier empire can complain. But he’s about to inherit the prestigious CEO position from his controlling mother whether he wants it or not. The only thing he’s ever truly chosen for himself was a foreign exchange experience as a teenager in farming country, USA—and with it, the unforgettable Avery Parks.

When Avery comes to visit him in Brussels, he decides to show her a vacation of a lifetime. It’ll be one last hurrah for him before he steps into the position he was born to fill and never really wanted.

As Nicolas immerses Avery in a world vastly different from her own, she finds herself attracted to the man he’s become. But as much as she’s growing to love his charming city and its people, their lives couldn’t possibly be more opposite. With Nicolas’s disapproving mother and living in a high-stakes upper-class world, the obstacles that lay between them feel far more impossible than a few thousand miles.

This trip has been all about Avery taking risks, but falling for Nicolas Servais might be the one risk that she should never take.

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About the Author

Meg Easton is the USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romances and romantic comedies with fun, memorable, swoon-worthy characters, and settings you’ll want to pack up and move to. She lives at the foot of a mountain with her name on it (or at least one letter of her name) in Utah. She loves gardening, bike riding, baking, swimming before the sun rises, and spending time with her husband and three kids.

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Review

A best friends to lovers romance that will charm readers and leave them swooning.  Nicolas came and stayed with Avery’s family as a foregn exchange student during high school.  And now Avery is finally visiting him in Brussels and can see his family’s chocolate empire.  This story has a bit of a Hallmark princess story feel.  Readers will be pulled in by the descriptions of the sights and the delicious chocolates.  And readers will love the sweet romance that develops even when Nicolas’s mother tries to sabotage everything.  This is a charming romance that readers will not want to miss.

Series: Love Started
Genre: contemporary, romance
Publisher: Mountain Heights Publishing
Publication date: March 29, 2022
Number of pages: 374
Other books in the series:
1-It Started with a Sunset
3-It Started with a Glance (coming spring 2022)
4-It Started with Santa (coming Christmas 2022)
Disclosure statement: A complimentary review copy of this book was provided from tour groups, publishers, publicists, authors, and others, including NetGalley, OR was borrowed from the library, including OverDrive, Or borrowed from Kindle Unlimited, OR borrowed from Deseret Bookshelf, OR pre-ordered/purchased for review, including Audible.  A review was not required and all views and opinions expressed are my own.