☆☆☆Slllooow Burn, Second Chance FTW!!☆☆☆

    New to me author Teagan Hart drew me in with Auld Lang Mine, and made me fall in love with Andi and Max within the first paragraph.

Andi is a small-town veterinarian trying to recover from losing her fiance in the last year, all while busting her butt to make sure every last animal in the makeshift shelter she's running is adopted before New Years or the Head Vet is going to ship them off their small island to other shelters on the mainland. 

Andi is amazing, I was surprised at the strength she shows to keep getting out of bed every morning bringing 110% to her job, keeping up an ongoing, horribly depressing text string with her fiances sister, and doing anything and everything her parents ask of her. But it's obvious she's dragging, trying so hard to please everyone, and doing absolutely nothing to take care of herself.

Max is back home after an IED explosion while he was overseas resulted in the partial amputation of his leg. He's so sweet, working hard to repair his mother's house, but otherwise he's pretty much staying housebound. He doesn't want the pitying looks of the people he's known all his life.

When his mother orders him out to the grocery store one night he comes face to face with the person he's been trying his damndest to avoid - Andi. He may have joined the Army, but she's the one who broke up with him, and broke his heart. 

Reading Auld Lang Mine as Andi and Max dance around one another, remembering their high school days - so much of it was so very funny, I adored their pranks and intelligence! But each time they get a little closer Andi's survivors guilt, or Max's anger that she wasn't willing to wait on him pulls them back apart.

I was amazed by how much gossip spins around this little island that no one had taken the time to let Max know what had happened to Andi. Sometimes the miscommunication is funny, but other times I was ready to rip their hair out! 

The side characters of this little island have a similar feel to Lucy Score's Blue Moon, everyone has a place and a place for each and every one! I adore how the community came together to save the shelter animals, and how each shelter animal matches their person - even Mr. Giggles!!

Five stars for Teagan Hart's Auld Lang Mine, I'm going to start going through her back list now!! I'm so glad she has more books, and more books coming soon!

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TW: Disabled Veteran MMC has flashbacks of time of injury on the page, Andi FMC has conversations about the death of her fiance, but it is not graphic.