As the mayor’s daughter, Juliet has never had a chance with any of the boys in Autumn Ridge. Her dad has always been extremely protective of her. When the opportunity to flirt with her teenage crush presents itself, she goes for it, knowing he’ll change his mind as soon as he realizes who she is. Little does she know, her dad and Archer already don’t get along.

As much as I wanted to love Autumn Kissed, I just couldn’t. I actually really didn’t like it. The main issue I had was Juliet’s immaturity. Some of the things she did made me feel secondhand embarrassment. I felt like her lack of life experience didn’t fit well in this story. Archer and Juliet’s relationship was very superficial. I didn’t think they were a good match. Archer was the perfect MMC, but Juliet just let me down. She had recently dropped out of college with one year left just because she didn’t like it. She moved home because that’s where she wanted to be, and I’m all for that. What drove me crazy was her lack of motivation to do anything. She wasn’t planning on finding a job or figuring out what she wanted to do with her life. She just wanted to be coddled by her dad. If she had wanted to do anything at all, it would have been so much better! It’s like her whole identity was liking Archer. But she let her dad’s opinion of Archer keep her from getting to know him despite the fact she knew her dad was wrong. If Juliet had a backbone and some motivation I probably would have liked the story.

I do have a few nice things to say about the book. I loved being back in Autumn Ridge and seeing all the other characters I grew to love over the series. Autumn Kissed gets a 5/5 for fall vibes. Juliet helped plan the fall festival and we spent a lot of time on that. Archer wrote Juliet a note at one point in the story and it very well could be the cutest thing I’ve ever read. And we FINALLY learned who the mayor was dating! The epilogue was perfect. We wrapped up with a cameo of all the couples from the previous books in the series. I loved that!