The Road Towards Home

4.5 stars. Although it isn't marketed as such (no cute, cartoony cover), The Road Towards Home is a delightful contemporary romance, distinct in its septuagenarian MCs. Some of the challenges they face are related to their age, but others are part of any new relationship: how much to trust, how much to let the other person in, how much to consider changes. Cassandra is a little too pushy and self-righteous, while Noah is too closed off and stubborn, but they are eminently likeable in their imperfections. Plus there is a lovable Newfoundland named Melville, a tarantula or two, and a terrarium full of stick insects.

I'm much closer to Noah and Cassandra's age than I am to the 20- and 30-something MCs in most of the romances I read, and it was an unexpected pleasure to find a novel that takes love between two Medicare-eligible adults seriously.

An Amazon First-Reads book, May 2023.