Overdue

Author: Stephanie Perkins Title: Overdue Publisher: St. Martin's Press/Saturday Books Date Published: 10/07/2025

Read Dates: 09/03/2025- 09/05/2025
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫

 📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

Overdue is a single POV friends-to-lovers romance. Ingrid met her boyfriend Cory the first day of college, and they have been together ever since, but things have stagnated. The two decide to take a one-month break to date other people and then reunite to consider their future. Their plan doesn't work out as expected, and Ingrid finds herself exploring a new life and a number of changes. One of those changes is her interactions with her favorite co-worker and friend, Macon. They dance around a growing friendship and potential relationship, and Ingrid figures out who she wants to be and who she wants to be with.

I loved this book! It was a very slow-burn romance, but it hit all the right buttons for me: slow-burn, friends-to-lovers, and grumpy/sunshine. While I couldn't relate to Cory and Ingrid's concern about a lack of romantic experience (I married my high school sweetheart!) I enjoyed watching Ingrid grow into who she was meant to be. And I loved grumpy, thoughtful Macon and the way he created space for her in his life.

Is it time to renew love or start a new chapter?

Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for eleven years without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid’s sister announces her engagement to a woman she’s only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision. They'll take a one-month break to date other people, then they'll reunite and move toward marriage. Ingrid even has someone in mind: her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon Nowakowski, on whom she’s secretly crushed for years. But plans go awry, and when the month ends, Ingrid and Cory realize they’re not ready to resume their relationship― and Ingrid’s harmless crush on Macon has turned into something much more complicated.

Overdue is a beautiful, slow-burn romance full of lust and longing about new beginnings and finding your way.