Publisher: St. Martin’s Press,  October 7, 2025

Format: ebook

Pages: 416

Rating: 4/5 stars

Summary (From Goodreads):

Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for eleven years without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid’s sister announces her engagement to a woman she’s only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision. They’ll take a one-month break to date other people, then they’ll reunite and move toward marriage. Ingrid even has someone in mind: her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon Nowakowski, on whom she’s secretly crushed for years. But plans go awry, and when the month ends, Ingrid and Cory realize they’re not ready to resume their relationship― and Ingrid’s harmless crush on Macon has turned into something much more complicated.

Overdue is a beautiful, slow-burn romance full of lust and longing about new beginnings and finding your way.

My Review:

Thank you, St. Martin’s Press, for the copy of this book.
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Read if you like: friends to lovers, starting over
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Ingrid and her boyfriend, Cory, decide to take a one-month break to date other people and then get married. But this starts an unravelling for Ingrid, where she has to figure out what she wants in life, including whether she wants to continue being a librarian.
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This was cute, and I appreciated how real Ingrid felt and how she struggled to go about solving her problems. This was also a slow-burning romance and while I wanted a little more from the romance side, I still enjoyed this story of a woman taking control of her life!