Book Review for Considering Us by Jenn Bouchard

 

Considering Us by  Jenn Bouchard

Published:  February 6, 2025 by Black Rose Writing

Taken from Goodreads:  After an affair with a client's husband leads to scandal, private chef Devon Paige is left with only one client in Boston -a reclusive professional basketball player with a craving for cookies. With no other choice, Devon lands on the doorstep of Rockwood, a boarding school on the New Hampshire seacoast, taking a job leading their dining services. She is shocked to soon discover Kyle Holling on staff, who she hasn't seen in over fifteen years since a memorable night just before departing for college in different cities. Devon and Kyle must determine what their relationship looks like years later, all while dodging the cameras of an underground newspaper, dealing with the installation of a controversial campus sculpture, and grappling with the arrival of Devon's former lover's daughter as a newly-enrolled student.

When Devon meets a handsome paramedic named Heath, she ditches the possibility of romance with Kyle in favor of what appears to be a more straightforward relationship. But a trip to Los Angeles to keep her client well-fed ahead of his basketball game threatens to upend everything, forcing Devon to finally answer the one question she has been is fifteen years too late to rekindle a one-night stand?

My Thoughts:  Jenn Bouchard wrote a fun and easy to read book.  I enjoyed the characters and the storyline.   The beginning had me wondering where this story was heading, Devon gets caught in a pantry with a married man. She then takes a job that is new and not what she is used to, she finds a future she did not even realize she could have.

 I enjoyed this entire book.  I was unable to put the book down.  It pulled me right out of the real world and into the world of Devon and the craziness at Rockwood.  I could not wait to see what would happen with Devon and Kyle, would they? Wouldn’t they?   And the students at Rockwood…is this really what a boarding school is like?  Those students had me shaking my head and wanting to put them in their places.

Thank you to the author for a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review. 

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Meet the Author(taken from her website): After moving eight times before college, Jenn was happy to land in Maine.  At Bates College, she helped run large concerts and campus-wide events, survived the ice storm of 1998, met her future husband, and graduated with a degree in Political Science.  From there she moved to Boston, where she fell in love with the Red Sox and earned a master's degree and teaching certification from Tufts University.  After a twelve year stint in Chicago, she and her family moved back to Boston, got season tickets to Fenway, and Jenn began working on FIRST COURSE, her debut novel.  She has been a high school social studies teacher for 25 years, and she is a regular presenter at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) annual conference.  In her spare time, Jenn volunteers as both a fundraiser and secretary for her Bates College class and is a past president of the alumni association. She is a member of Grub Street and the Women Fiction Writers' Association, as well as a board member for her local Dollars for Scholars chapter. She is an avid cook and is always planning her next adventure. FIRST COURSE was published in 2021 by TouchPoint Press and released as an audiobook in 2023 by Tantor Audio. It is now available in a second edition through Coastal Whisk. You will find her short stories in The Bookends Review, Litbreak Magazine, The Penmen Review, MARY, the Little Patuxent Review, and FOLIO. She also teaches short story classes for adults in the Boston suburbs. Her second novel, CONSIDERING US, will be published on February 6, 2025 by Black Rose Writing.