Everyone thought Shiloh and Carey would end up together. Everyone except Shiloh and Carey. In high school they were the best of friends. They spent every moment together and dreamed of their futures. Carey was joining the Navy and Shiloh would go off to college and become and actress. Shiloh did go to college and Carey did join the Navy but it’s been fourteen years since they’ve talked and Shiloh is now divorced with two children. They reconnect at their friends wedding and have to learn how to be friends again.

This was one of those books that started slow but every moment hooked you into that next chapter. You just really wanted to see what was going to happen with Shiloh and Carey next. At the same time it was filled with two different timelines of flashbacks telling the story of what led to their not seeing each other for fourteen years. I usually hate flashbacks and I’ll admit that I was a little impatient with how many this book had, but those chapters were so useful in helping to create depth in these characters. These chapters showed how these young people held onto their hearts and secrets. How communication could have led these characters in a different direction earlier in their lives and maybe made them reflect upon some of their own decisions and the paths they themselves chose. Despite the help in character development it did make the story plod along a little slowly, but I’m a girl that appreciates a slow burn romance and Slow Dance was the penultimate slow burn.

When the time came for our characters to make the journey together in current time I felt so rewarded! I was brought along on this lengthy journey, saw their struggles and insecurities, and felt all the emotions they were each feeling. If my book had not been virtual I would probably have had little tears in the pages from my eagerly advancing the pages and my finger tracing the paths of the words that had meaning. This was a very well done novel, one I’ll re-read to find again those sentences that had meaning and to again feel the depth of emotion these two characters felt for each other. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❣️

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for an honest review and it was honest.

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