A review by nclcaitlin
Last Call at the Local by Sarah Grunder Ruiz

2.75

A cozy romance set in Ireland with heart-warming and empowering ADHD representation and a theme of following your dreams!

Raine is a wandering singer-songwriter American who is robbed and left with little more than the clothes on her back. Stopping at an Irish pub called the Local, she meets Jack who is part owner of the charming pub (and a cat called Sebastian). Jack and Raine get to talking, feel akin, and Raine finds herself accepting Jack’s offer of a temporary job at the pub to help her get back on her feet.

I liked the depiction of different kinds of OCD and ADHD and how people can support others. 

However, this didn’t feel complete as a romance and this aspect felt either too slow or then way too rushed. 

But my problem isn't that I don't think. It's that my brain only has two modes: think everything all at once and make sense of none of it, or think about one thing obsessively at the expense of whatever actually needs my attention. The point being, I am always thinking. Just never about the right things.

There was no third act break-up but there was something else which… kinda felt like the same thing? And I also feel this undermined all the support and progress they had made???

I don’t know, I liked the representation and the way it was written and portrayed, but I couldn’t get behind the story and the development.