Anywhere You Go by Bridget Morrissey | Book Review

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Two women discover love after swapping their homes. Fleeing the messiness of their personal lives, a small-town waitress and a big-city Broadway press agent swap addresses and lives in this “sparkling” (Alicia Thompson, USA Today bestselling author) queer contemporary romance.

Tatum Ward and Eleanor Chapman lead totally opposite lives. Tatum’s never left her Midwestern hometown. She resides in a quaint guest cottage on her parents’ property while working part-time as a waitress, where she spends most shifts ignoring her feelings for a beautiful regular named June. Eleanor dedicates every waking hour to her high-profile press career, sacrificing personal relationships for professional success, save for the occasional hookup to fight off her loneliness. When both women’s lives unexpectedly blow up at the exact same time, they each need an escape, and fast.

In Tatum’s hometown, Eleanor expects a quiet hideaway where she can recharge. Instead she gets wrapped up in the family drama that Tatum left town to avoid, pulled in by Tatum’s charismatic older sibling, Carson, who charms Eleanor at every turn. Tatum ends up in Eleanor’s New York high-rise apartment with June. One week together in the big city might make it impossible for Tatum to avoid not just her true feelings for June, but her real dreams for her life.

Amid a friendship with a reclusive Hollywood actress and a complicated family reunion, Tatum and Eleanor each discover much more than they bargained for away from home. Their house swap won’t last forever, but it might be just long enough for both women to surrender their defenses and finally fight for the life—and love—they deserve.

Bridget Morrissey is one of my favorite contemporary romance writers. I say that confidently having only read two of her books. However, when you know, you know. I was so eager to pick up Anywhere You Go because That Summer Feeling was one of my top books in the year I read it. Morrissey has this way of writing characters that I really connect to – set against a plot that I find myself deeply interested in. So, when Anywhere You Go landed on my radar, I had such a good feeling about it. 

Anywhere You Go feels a bit similar to a queer version of the movie The Holiday. The story features Eleanor and Tatum who swap homes to escape their life blow ups. Tatum lives in a lovely cottage on her parent’s property. She works in a local diner as a waitress and hasn’t left her midwest town. She has had a longtime crush on June, who is new to town. Meanwhile, Eleanor is a publicist for Broadway and lives in an apartment purchased with an inheritance from her parents. Tatum’s family springs a surprise reunion on her and she just can’t take it, so she goes with June to New York City – to Eleanor’s apartment in order to help June get investors for her fragrance business. Meanwhile, Eleanor blows up her career and ends up at Tatum’s college where she meets and falls for Tatum’s nonbinary sibling, Carson. 

I absolutely enjoyed the parallel storylines between Eleanor and Tatum. Their love stories are very different, but both are equally engaging. I also must say there is a cameo from the main couple from That Summer Feeling which I definitely loved spotting.  As characters, Eleanor and Tatum are very different – but have some similarities. Both are queer. Both are going through some big life changes and transitions. Eleanor, however, is very lonely and going through some depression – based upon the state of her apartment when Tatum and June arrive. Meanwhile, Tatum is feeling stuck, so going to the City is the perfect opportunity for her to break out of her rut. Sidebar: I loved all the family reunion activities and also the connection between Carson and Eleanor. Overall, this was a wonderful story and honestly has me itching to pick up Bridget Morrissey’s backlist. 

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