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Chasing Stars

By Katia Rose

Publication date: Jun 25, 2024

Series

Three Rivers

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Review

This book was an awakening.

Chasing Stars marks a third and, sadly, final trip to the Three Rivers Campground, an idyllic slice of queerness set in the already gorgeous backdrop of Vancouver Island, BC.

Littlest sister Clover Rivers, last but not least of her name, is back in town during the summer gap between undergrad and starting her master’s program. Unfortunately for her, the past has found its way back to the present in the form of Neavh, the one that got (fled, really) away.

It’s … it’s everything, y’all. The revelation I alluded to up top is that apparently people finding someone else who just gets them is my jam. Apparently I need an “emotional intimacy is my kink” bumper sticker?

The way Clover and Neavh fit together, even when there’s friction! It’s delicious, the warmth and camaraderie and (not really a spoiler) love that flows between them like a … flowing body of water.

Gah, it’s a river, sorry, couldn’t help myself.

Don’t get me wrong, the they’re still plenty realistic enough to make choices that annoy the hell out of me. Silly young people, never befitting from the wisdom of my experience!

But sometimes we must forgive others the sin of being 22, and in this case it’s easy to do.

Chasing Stars is the perfect wrap-up to the Rivers sisters’ stories, a literal bow on a wonderful present from the author. Though I’m sorry we won’t get more stories about them, it’s easy as a reader (and fan) to take comfort that the ones we got were so lovingly crafted.

Give the whole series a read; it’s time very well spent.

This review is for an advanced reader copy of the book, provided by the publisher.

Synopsis

Clover Rivers is completely, totally over her ex.

Sure, her first ever relationship with a girl might have ended in a catastrophic breakup people still whisper about, but Clover is done with it.

The four years since have made her stronger. Smarter. Four years have turned her into the kind of woman who doesn’t believe in wishes on stars or miraculous second chances. As an aspiring environmental scientist, Clover puts her faith in cold, hard data, and the data says there’s no way anything good can come of messing around with a girl who already broke her heart.

Neavh Beaudoin is completely, totally still in love with Clover Rivers.

When a series of disasters lands her living on her cousin’s couch—and back in the small island town she never thought she’d see again—Neavh is forced to confront the truth: leaving Clover behind was the biggest mistake of her life, and she’d give every star in the sky for another chance.

As cramped small town life makes it impossible to ignore the way the two women still spark like a wildfire, Clover realizes Neavh’s reasons for leaving might not have been so straightforward, and the future she’s planned for herself in the meantime might not fit as well as she thought.