Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score

 Books were my second passion (We can call it my third if you want because I have always had an affinity for bossing people around my brother, Sam, and my oldest friend, Emma can both back me up here). Animals came first but when I learned to read and discovered that I could escape the humdrum of school and everyday by visiting new worlds in a book I was hooked. My son has inherited both of those passions from me and on a day when I was at a baby shower and he was with his dad, they went to the book store and he insisted on buying me a book with a dog on the cover. He knew I would like it, he said, "because it's a book and it has dog on the cover." And he was right. I loved it. 

Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score is a love story. But it's also a story about making room and taking the steps to change who you are for the better and for yourself. 

Maggie Nicols is a strong-willed, intelligent, independent and beautiful Youtuber. She doesn't stay in one place long, flipping one house and moving onto the next with her partner, Dean. Then she meets Silas Wright and his dog Kevin, in the town of Kinship, Idaho. Silas is also strong-willed, but he is also some who was brought up in a family where it was okay to ask for help from others as long as you remembered to give back. He is also passionate, funny, and, as the author makes sure to remind us multiple times, HOT. His dog, Kevin, who is the perfect dog to lighten the mood when things get too sappy or too serious, is a gray, therapy school flunky. He was too stubborn to be a therapy dog. Mastering the tools but only using them when the urge suits him.

In Kinship, Maggie gets more than she bargained for with Silas and his family, her own family and past coming out of the woodwork to force her to make decisions about her life, she isn't sure she can handle. It's hard to find books for adults, about adults that handle adulthood problems well. This book reminds us that money and work aren't the only problems people over 27 face. 

If you are looking for a passionate, funny, emotional story this book is for you. If you want it with a side of treasure hunting and a LGBTQ+ story, as well, this also has you covered. And if you are a sucker for a book about found family and finding your place, even in your thirties, pick this book up. You won't regret it.