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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
pretty sure marriage for one is my favourite fluffy romance its so sweet. i love it sm <3 i always want to have a cafe in nyc with flowers and books after reading this and i love jack he’s so cute.
I’ve never loved a factional character more than I love Jack Hawthorne-
I love this book with all my heart one of my now new favorites of all time!
This best book to recommend for ppl who absolutely live for grump/sunshine trope! You won’t be disappointed!
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5/5 love love love! Holds a dear place in my heart! ❤️
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REREAD (08/25/2023-08/31/2023)
THIS BOOK WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY HEART YALL DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS BOOK DOES TO ME!!!
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I wanted to reread marriage for one bc I needed to retab and I was in a reading slump so why not reread it?!
Rose (fc: Mara Lafontan/ Aslihan Malbora)
- This girl can be stubborn!
- Loved how she pushed and pushed Jack to come out of his shell and give us the softie Jack!!!
- The way she counted on Jack smiling is so cute and endearing omg!!!
Jack (fc: Jason Morgan)
- THATS MY HUSBAND!!!!
- You don’t understand how much I’m in love with this man he owns my heart!!!
- The way he helped Rose when she was building her coffee shop and the way he was so caring even though he was trying to be distant!!!!
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Y’all this book is my #1 grumpy x sunshine romancé to recommend!!! I’ll also talk positive about Marriage for one.
There will be haters but they won’t understand the book the way I do!!!
Their traditions they make and omg MY BABY JACK HAWTHORNE IS MY TOP 5 HUSBAND LIKE OMG!!!!
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Overall 5/5 stars if I could infinity out of stars!!! This book has my whole heart!!!
Ella Maise put something on this book that made me fall in love with Jack and Rose and their relationship!!!
I’ll always recommend this book and will always rave about this book!!!
Jack Hawthorne for life!!!!
I love this book with all my heart one of my now new favorites of all time!
This best book to recommend for ppl who absolutely live for grump/sunshine trope! You won’t be disappointed!
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5/5 love love love! Holds a dear place in my heart! ❤️
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REREAD (08/25/2023-08/31/2023)
THIS BOOK WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY HEART YALL DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS BOOK DOES TO ME!!!
-
I wanted to reread marriage for one bc I needed to retab and I was in a reading slump so why not reread it?!
Rose (fc: Mara Lafontan/ Aslihan Malbora)
- This girl can be stubborn!
- Loved how she pushed and pushed Jack to come out of his shell and give us the softie Jack!!!
- The way she counted on Jack smiling is so cute and endearing omg!!!
Jack (fc: Jason Morgan)
- THATS MY HUSBAND!!!!
- You don’t understand how much I’m in love with this man he owns my heart!!!
- The way he helped Rose when she was building her coffee shop and the way he was so caring even though he was trying to be distant!!!!
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Y’all this book is my #1 grumpy x sunshine romancé to recommend!!! I’ll also talk positive about Marriage for one.
There will be haters but they won’t understand the book the way I do!!!
Their traditions they make and omg MY BABY JACK HAWTHORNE IS MY TOP 5 HUSBAND LIKE OMG!!!!
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Overall 5/5 stars if I could infinity out of stars!!! This book has my whole heart!!!
Ella Maise put something on this book that made me fall in love with Jack and Rose and their relationship!!!
I’ll always recommend this book and will always rave about this book!!!
Jack Hawthorne for life!!!!
Did I read a different book?
Inside most romance novels there are two buttons. One button turns off the part of your brain that finds things creepy so that you can fully enjoy the romance. The other button turns that part of your brain up so that the romance becomes a horror movie. This book requires you to have button #1 fully pressed or it is horrifying.
Without getting into spoilers, the entire basis of the relationship is either swoony and romantic (button 1) or grounds for a restraining order (button 2).
It didn't start bothering me until partway through the story when. I'm sure to some that was just a passing line, but y'all I have read too many thrillers and this girl needs to run. Do not collect $200, do not pass go, R U N.
Midway through this book was when I started hate-reading instead of reading to enjoy it. She has medical problems In one scene, they are at dinner at a fancy gala and her solution to the problem is this had me dry heaving.
Later, about 85% into the book, we finally get the reveal that
The cover. Come on y'all, the cover gives the whole damn story away. He isn't hot, he isn't brooding, he's a damn creep!
Other things that made me feel like I read another book
-He is so overdramatic the entire time and in the least helpful or attractive way. At the doctor's office, he mentions that she might have and he thinks "my anger is boiling over." Tf? Is it the doctor's fault? Hello? Later she is crying and he says "I'll kiss you, but only if you promise not to cry anymore" while she is dealing with a serious medical diagnosis? Hello?
-“Our first official date?” I yelled after him before he could get to the stairs. “Yes,” he yelled back, his voice angry.
Why is this dude always so angry?!
-"I roughly dried my thick hair and straightened my bangs" not the middle school special ☠️
-a coffee shop. on madison avenue. in NYC. with a tacky fake flower archway over the door.
Inside most romance novels there are two buttons. One button turns off the part of your brain that finds things creepy so that you can fully enjoy the romance. The other button turns that part of your brain up so that the romance becomes a horror movie. This book requires you to have button #1 fully pressed or it is horrifying.
Without getting into spoilers, the entire basis of the relationship is either swoony and romantic (button 1) or grounds for a restraining order (button 2).
It didn't start bothering me until partway through the story when
Spoiler
he tells her to buy a dress in white or nude because she looks the best in those colors and she mentions he hasn't seen her wear eitherMidway through this book was when I started hate-reading instead of reading to enjoy it. She has medical problems
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that include her nose dripping and leaking spinal fluid? and the author goes above and beyond to remind you of it as often and graphically as possible.Spoiler
shoving cotton balls in her nose (which would be 100% obvious? tf?). During dinner spinal fluid DRIPS ONTO THE TABLECLOTH and she thinks "uwu I don't want my super hot hubby to see my dwippy nose" and runs to the bathroom where she takes the cotton ball out and WRINGS THE SPINAL FLUID OUT OF IT. Granted she thinks she has a cold or something butLater, about 85% into the book, we finally get the reveal that
Spoiler
he essentially stalked her for a full year, paid her fiance to suddenly dump her and send her into a spiral of depression, and then set himself up to fake-marry her to get closer to her. I can maybe twist my brain into seeing the romance if he did not literally pay her fiance to dump her and only saw her from afar and fell in love or whatever, but this is so wrong I just don't understand wrapping your head around it. No judgment, just could not be me.The cover. Come on y'all, the cover gives the whole damn story away. He isn't hot, he isn't brooding, he's a damn creep!
Other things that made me feel like I read another book
-He is so overdramatic the entire time and in the least helpful or attractive way. At the doctor's office, he mentions that she might have
Spoiler
a brain tumor-“Our first official date?” I yelled after him before he could get to the stairs. “Yes,” he yelled back, his voice angry.
Why is this dude always so angry?!
-"I roughly dried my thick hair and straightened my bangs" not the middle school special ☠️
-a coffee shop. on madison avenue. in NYC. with a tacky fake flower archway over the door.
3.5
A little slow for me…. The book has a 3rd act break up and is a slow burn. They have a fake relationship so they dont do much besides kiss until 300 ish pages into the 500 page book. I expected something different so I did not like the long chapters, structure, characters, and writing style because it seemed to drag for me sadly.
A little slow for me…. The book has a 3rd act break up and is a slow burn. They have a fake relationship so they dont do much besides kiss until 300 ish pages into the 500 page book. I expected something different so I did not like the long chapters, structure, characters, and writing style because it seemed to drag for me sadly.
This book is A-MA-ZING!! I absolutely loved the love story of Jack and Rose. Their struggles, and the way they overcame them. The way they see each other and support one another. One of my favorite books EVER!
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
slow-paced
This was a warm fuzzy hug tbh so so warm and adorable
–Marriage of convenience: please the scenes where jack noticed she wasn’t wearing her ring and got so upset always and when he called her his wife
–Marriage of convenience: please the scenes where jack noticed she wasn’t wearing her ring and got so upset always and when he called her his wife
I must be having great luck with books nowadays, because I am enjoying everything I read lately.
This is my firts book by this author - although I've shelved some of her books in the past; so I didn't know what to expect. The blurb (and the hot cover) allured me. I'm a sucker for the contracted marriage thrope, especially if the story is a slow burn type.
The POV is dual, because we have chapters from both of the main characters, which gives us a better insight into their minds as the story progresses. I liked that the author chose to give voice to both of them, because in slow burn novels it's better to let the reader know understand what does each character think. This is because since the story is slow, it can happen that the reader may not "feel" the love that blooms between the characters. But of course it depends on the author too. Anyway, it was cool that we got both voices.
The story starts with Rose's chapter, our main female protagonist. Her side of the story starts when she and the male protagonist, Jack, are getting married. Since the plot is about a contracted marriage, it's a good solution to take the reader right into the moment when everything starts. Rose is having doubts about accepting this fake marriage, but we learn after a bit how come this proposition happened.
Rose is an easygoing woman who dreams of opening a coffee shop. She was setting everything up in order to do so, but the tragic death of her uncle changes her life, so she can't get her hands on the shop she wanted to use for this purpose. Enter Jack, a handsome lawyer. He knows the terms of the will of Rose's uncle, and takes the chance to get his hands of the property where she wanted to open her shop, since there's a clause that states that her husband would get that place, and not her... And Rose can accompany him to parties related to his work and pose as his wife. In exchange, she'll get the shop she likes for two years. He proposes to Rose just after he meets her, and everything goes from there. But... does Jack really wants to get married because he wants that shop?
As we begin our jour journey into the characters' lives, we understand more of their personality.
Rose is an independent woman with a dream and she tries everything in order to accomplish it. At first she thinks her marriage is a mistake because she realizes that her husband is a grumpy man who barely talks and smiles, but as he tries to help her with setting up her shop and other small gestures, she thinks that he may not be that bad after all. Since theirs is a fake marriage, everything is confusing for her, because she can't understand where truth starts and lies ends. Rose tries not to kid herself that something will blossom from this marriage, because she's been hurt too much and doesn't want to get linked to anybody and have her heart broken again. But there's something about the controlled Jack that just attracts her, and soon she starts to think that maybe her convinctions were wrong.
Jack is the ever composed lawyer. He is handsome but expressionless, cold, and detached. He is not the type to fall in love easily, especially with Rose. Even though it'd be easy to love her, there is a reason why he asked her to marry him, so he tries hard to keep an unreadable face not to give anything away and to keep himself far from her. Despite the guilt he feels towards her, at some point he changes and opens his heart more, and it's nice to see.
I really liked the story of Jack and Rose. The book is long and a lot of things happen, but I think these events are necessary to build up this couple. I liked that there was not insta-love or insta-lust with them and we got to see how they fell for each other and change.
This is my firts book by this author - although I've shelved some of her books in the past; so I didn't know what to expect. The blurb (and the hot cover) allured me. I'm a sucker for the contracted marriage thrope, especially if the story is a slow burn type.
The POV is dual, because we have chapters from both of the main characters, which gives us a better insight into their minds as the story progresses. I liked that the author chose to give voice to both of them, because in slow burn novels it's better to let the reader know understand what does each character think. This is because since the story is slow, it can happen that the reader may not "feel" the love that blooms between the characters. But of course it depends on the author too. Anyway, it was cool that we got both voices.
The story starts with Rose's chapter, our main female protagonist. Her side of the story starts when she and the male protagonist, Jack, are getting married. Since the plot is about a contracted marriage, it's a good solution to take the reader right into the moment when everything starts. Rose is having doubts about accepting this fake marriage, but we learn after a bit how come this proposition happened.
Rose is an easygoing woman who dreams of opening a coffee shop. She was setting everything up in order to do so, but the tragic death of her uncle changes her life, so she can't get her hands on the shop she wanted to use for this purpose. Enter Jack, a handsome lawyer. He knows the terms of the will of Rose's uncle, and takes the chance to get his hands of the property where she wanted to open her shop, since there's a clause that states that her husband would get that place, and not her... And Rose can accompany him to parties related to his work and pose as his wife. In exchange, she'll get the shop she likes for two years. He proposes to Rose just after he meets her, and everything goes from there. But... does Jack really wants to get married because he wants that shop?
As we begin our jour journey into the characters' lives, we understand more of their personality.
Rose is an independent woman with a dream and she tries everything in order to accomplish it. At first she thinks her marriage is a mistake because she realizes that her husband is a grumpy man who barely talks and smiles, but as he tries to help her with setting up her shop and other small gestures, she thinks that he may not be that bad after all. Since theirs is a fake marriage, everything is confusing for her, because she can't understand where truth starts and lies ends. Rose tries not to kid herself that something will blossom from this marriage, because she's been hurt too much and doesn't want to get linked to anybody and have her heart broken again. But there's something about the controlled Jack that just attracts her, and soon she starts to think that maybe her convinctions were wrong.
Jack is the ever composed lawyer. He is handsome but expressionless, cold, and detached. He is not the type to fall in love easily, especially with Rose. Even though it'd be easy to love her, there is a reason why he asked her to marry him, so he tries hard to keep an unreadable face not to give anything away and to keep himself far from her. Despite the guilt he feels towards her, at some point he changes and opens his heart more, and it's nice to see.
I really liked the story of Jack and Rose. The book is long and a lot of things happen, but I think these events are necessary to build up this couple. I liked that there was not insta-love or insta-lust with them and we got to see how they fell for each other and change.