The Ex Vows (25 in 2025 #15)

Author:  Jessica Joyce
Title: The Ex Vows Publisher: Berkley Date Published: 07/16/2024

Read Dates: 07/10/2025- 07/11/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Ex Vows is a single POV second-chance romance. Georgia and Eli were best friends in high school who fell in love and dated. Unfortunately, their relationship didn’t work out, and for the past five years Georgia has been making lists and rules for how to be around him when their mutual friends bring them into each other’s orbit. When the wedding of one of those friends throws them together, Georgia isn’t sure how she’ll get through the week, especially since Eli seems determined to throw all her rules out the window!

I loved this so much! I really have a soft spot for friends-to-lovers and second chance, so this hit all the right notes for me. I loved the quiet ways Eli told her he loved her, and the bravery it took, both to end things and to fall back in love. Fantastic read!

Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It’s full of the ironclad dos and don’ts they’ve been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago.

With the wedding of their mutual best friend, Adam, looming, and them about to step into their roles as best woman and man, Georgia’s never needed it more. She refuses to threaten their tight-knit friend group with her messy—and still very present—feelings. The rules on that list will keep her cool, calm, and compartmentalized.

What’s not on her list? Eli arriving from New York with a new rule-breaking attitude or the all-inclusive venue burning to the ground, leaving the bride and groom in dire straits. Nor does she anticipate Adam asking her and Eli to help him make a miracle happen. Together.

As Georgia and Eli rush up to Napa Valley to pull off the perfect wedding, their old chemistry comes back in technicolor. Somewhere between cake tastings gone wrong, disastrous DJ auditions, and Eli’s heated attention, Georgia starts recognizing the man she fell in love with before. And if she lets herself break her rules, she might find what they’re building isn’t the something old that ruined them—it’s a chance at something new.