Grilled Cheese, Baby Goats, and Heartfelt Choices: A Deep Dive into “A Part of Your World” by Abby Jimenez

Main Characters

  • Alexis Montgomery
  • Daniel Grant
  • Hunter (the dog)

Publisher’s Summary

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery has had her world turned upside down. The cause: Daniel Grant, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come—the complete opposite of sophisticated city-girl Alexis. And yet their chemistry is undeniable.

While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere” ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.

Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she can’t just give up the joy she’s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his?

Recent Reviews

Part of Your Worldb by Abby Jimenez Book Review

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Read this book over the summer and I have finally had to time to sit down and review it.

I won’t rehash the plot—you can read the blurb for that. What I’d rather do is tell you how this book made me feel.

From the cozy town to the beautifully crafted main and side characters, I fell in love with it all. I was rooting for Alexis and Daniel so fiercely, they felt like friends I wanted to cheer on. And Alexis? Her speech near the end had me swelling with pride. Whether or not she fully understood her worth by the last page, I certainly did. She is amazing!

And don’t even get me started on Daniel. Abby Jimenez has outdone herself with this hero—he’s the kind of good, honorable, kind-hearted person you rarely encounter in fiction, let alone in real life. Daniel’s character is just… unforgettable.

These two characters come from such different worlds, but they somehow find a way to fit together perfectly, and watching them navigate that journey—both individually and together—was such a rewarding experience.

I’m honestly at a loss for words because no matter how much I say, it won’t do this book justice.

If I had to pick one thing that stood out, it’s this: this book is a beautiful reminder that found family can be more meaningful than the one you’re born into.

Trigger warnings: emotional and narcissistic abuse from Alexis’s ex and her parents, and a subplot involving domestic abuse experienced by a secondary character.

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Book Quotes

Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense, it doesn’t even stop when the person you love does. It does what it wants. Even if what you want is to not be in love.

― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

When she left, the only proof I ever had that she’d been here, or that she even existed at all, was the ache I was starting to feel when she was gone.

― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World


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