This was most definitely a spring movie. I get it. I noticed it was the first Hallmark movie from this writer. I had more complaints about the directing and he's directed a ton of movies A on Hallmark. Anyway, it was a good enough story for Hallmark. Some of the same old tropes as before. The two leads were charming. Emily is building up a solid group of films for the channel. I don't think I disliked her in any of the films she has starred in. A nice variety as well. Carlo was good. I have seen him as a lead a few times now. I remember him most from the Wedding Veil. The Blessing Bracelet was a good film too. Anyway, they worked well together but the height difference was awkward at times. Mind you, I would love to see it the other way but that's just my personal bias or wish fulfillment,,,

The plot was good enough. Small beans once again but that's okay. I was thinking that maybe this Tessa Marks was going to swoop in and the whole county was going to come to the book signing and save the store with the money from the book sales or something. I don't' get why she had to sell. I mean maybe the lease was up? I mean I guess the owners of the property just put up for sale. That Molly was running things as best as she could. But anyway, she wanted to sell the place and get the money and find someplace to start all over again. Chicago was going to be it. Settle down in Chicago in her new permanent job. I suppose she could have used the money from the sale since she was merely drifting from one job to another and her dream of writing a novel was put on hold but there was no rush besides the deadline to sell. Of course, in the end she decided to stay.

Some Hallmark movies have too much backstory or characters with more baggage than a carousel at O'Hare. This was almost the opposite which was nice for a change but we did get some details. Of course, he liked her in high school. but didn't tell her and she at least thought about it. But that was it. No messy breakups and so on. One sour point in the relationship at the present time was when she was expecting a kiss from him and he just hugged her. That really annoyed her. It wasn't the classic "Hallmark interruptus" moment though. Still she wanted him to kiss her but he blew the moment. Not just that but they had a little argument then too. Here I was thinking "This guy is like the best boyfriend ever when it comes to supporting his lady with words of encouragement and supporting her" and then he screws it up. He screwed up twice in like two minutes. Also like many a Hallmark heroine or hero, Max was in a rut and trying to move forward with his life as well. He was somewhat girded by his traditional father who is also set in his ways. He also embraced a change as well in the story and his son was happy for him on that endeavor as well.

Overall, a fine movie with lots of obvious things for spring. I did have some issues. I can do without having to read texts on the screen. I record in sd and sometimes the screen isn't good enough. Now the writing on the screen was okay. I always have caption on anyway even I can perfectly understand them. A habit from watching too many foreign films. So that was a little tricky for me. But overall that didn't distract me from the film but just some pet peeves for me. I would give this film a six or seven. It was a little different and it wasn't outstanding ore really bad. It was better than average with two fine leads.