Happy Release Day!
Congrats Stephanie
on release today of
Overdue!
Overdue by Stephanie Perkins
Contemporary Women Fiction, 416 pages
Published October 7, 2025, by Saturday Books
A sparkling adult debut from beloved New Your Times bestselling author Stephanie Perkins.
Is it time to renew love or start a new chapter?
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.
"Stephanie Perkins is the reason we write romance. Overdue is the book her readers have been waiting for."—Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Paradise Problem
My thoughts about Overdue ~~
(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)
First line—"I had already made one catastrophic decision earlier this week. But I didn't know that it was catastrophic yet, just like I didn't know that—by the end of the day—I would make another."
A story about librarians and bookstores? Of course I have to read it. And this was such a fun, heartwarming story. Two people thrown together because of their work and their chemistry but kept apart because of their work and mixed signals between the two of them over the years.
Ingrid and Macon are the best work buddies you can ever imagine but it gets interesting when their work situation becomes blurred by a missed kiss. Things will never be the same, right? Will they ever be friends again?
I was totally absorbed in these two and their whole story and was rooting for the two of them all the way. Getting to their satisfying conclusion was so much fun. Life isn't easy for either one of these characters but they are resilient and have a network of friends that helped them both through the hard times. I loved seeing the caring people in their lives.
Did I mention the library and bookstore worlds? As a book person and retired library worker, I loved that part so much. It brought back so many memories for me.
I highly recommend Overdue, especially if you have any connection to the bookish world, love a slow-burn romance, or are a fan of Stephanie Perkins. She has written an amazing novel, one that you will enjoy for sure.
I received an ARC of Overdue and this is my honest opinion.
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About the author
Stephanie Perkins is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and anthology editor of multiple books, including Overdue, Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, Isla and the Happily Ever After, and My True Love Gave to Me, as well as There’s Someone Inside Your House, which was adapted into a major motion picture for Netflix.
She has always worked with books―first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband. Every room of their house is painted a different color of the rainbow. ~ Amazon
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