When Lark ran from her past and uprooted her life, she didn’t expect to find herself next door to a tall, reserved Irish funeral director. But Callum was exactly who she needed to find her footing after heartache. But with his own future at stake, Callum finds himself turning to his American neighbor and going outside his comfort zone in ways he never expected. But as time counts down on their time together, both Lark and Callum will learn that their friendship can be so much more and their love for each other might just be able to save them both. Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks is a must read contemporary romance!

You’ve been telling yourself lies for too long, darlin’. It’s time to unlearn them.

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You’d let something as trivial as a dozen cats stand between you and a lifetime of happiness?

When Lark needed an escape, she took her animation career from Texas all the way to Galway, Ireland, hoping for a fresh start. Unfortunately for Lark and all the heartache she’s trying to keep buried in her past, she ends up moving in next door to a funeral home. Isolated in a new country and already making rivals at work, Lark starts to find comfort in the tall but quiet funeral director next door. Callum might be the solid foundation that Lark needs right now, but he has his own problems. With stipulations in place if he’s going to keep his family’s funeral business, Callum must marry before his next birthday in order to fulfill his grandfather’s wishes. But thanks to his social anxiety, Callum has all but given up finding a wife. But when Lark enters the picture, they might just be able to mutually benefit each other.

I absolutely loved Morbidly Yours by Ivy Fairbanks. I loved the characters, I enjoyed the plot, and I had no problems at all getting swept away by the writing itself. This was definitely a right book at the right time kind of read for me, but I just loved everything about Lark and Callum’s story. 

I could not get enough of Callum. He initially came off as quiet and reserved, but the more Lark got to know him, the more we saw him open up and reveal the whole person. Callum had several things he preferred to keep to himself, hidden away from most people. He did have a stutter, one that became stronger whenever he was experiencing more intense emotions. This, with good reason, made meeting new people – and fulfilling his grandfather’s stipulations for inheriting the funeral home – very hard for Callum. But one of my favorite things to explore with Callum was his sexuality, specifically his demisexuality. I love reading romances where characters are on the asexual spectrum, and Callum was such a great example of demisexuality in day to day life. Obviously, Callum could only exhibit his particular form of demisexuality, and it was a convenient way to really challenge him when it came to finding a wife, but I still thought it was a good representation of a demisexual character in contemporary romance. 

And like Callum, Lark had her own history standing between her present and future happiness. From the very beginning – in fact, it was the catalyst for her move to Galway in the first place – Lark was harboring so much guilt and heartache because of her past. I don’t want to give away too much since it’s such a huge part of her emotional journey in this book, but Lark was so emotionally fragile when she first met Callum and it was a beautiful, if not tumultuous, journey to get her to her happily ever after. Stories full of heartbreak and guilt aren’t always the easiest to read, but I thought Fairbanks handled Lark with the caution and care that she needed and deserved. 

There were laughs and plenty of sorrow, but Callum and Lark were such a good couple from start to finish. Whether they were just friends, flirting with something more, or finally admitting their feelings for each other, these two gave me all the good vibes and made Morbidly Yours a hard book to put down. 

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