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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
jackrose they could never make me hate you
this has become a comfort book of sorts for me so my rating is based on vibes more than anything else
anyways, read this book on a cozy winter evening, you're welcome.
this has become a comfort book of sorts for me so my rating is based on vibes more than anything else
anyways, read this book on a cozy winter evening, you're welcome.
- marriage of convenience
- grumpy x sunshine
- forced proximity
- dual pov
- rom com references
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I am so mad at myself for not reading this book idk like forever ago? I loved it. I absolutely loved this story and I cannot begin to tell you how fricken sad I was when I finished it because I just wanted to live in a world with Jack, Rose, and Around the Corner coffee shop. THE FAKE MARRIAGE?! YES PLEASE. This embodies the slow burn romance that I love. I just feel like she wrote this slow burn so well… and I was HERE FOR IT OKAY. This is so hard for me to review because I will absolutely spoil this. And I am not one to write spoilers. Just the relationship that Jack and Rose have.. ugh. Ella, how do you keep writing about fictional men that I love?!
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I loved this book from the moment I started until the moment I finished it. It was intriguing and fascinating and warmhearted and humorous. It was also a wonderful slow burn with a mystery that kept me guessing for most of the book.
When the book starts, we see Rose and Jack getting married. Cue the song from Titanic, except there’s no drowning here, unless you count Rose drowning in Jack’s intense blue eyes. This is a fake marriage, concocted by Jack, who convinced Rose, to save her coffee house dream.
For years, Rose has been saving and dreaming of her own coffee house. Her uncle had promised to help her with a building in Madison Avenue, New York City. Yet, he died before she could finalize their contract, and instead he left the building to her future husband, if she were to be married at the time of his death. Since she had recently been dumped by her fiancee, she had no hopes until Jack approaches her with this plan of a fake marriage. He will honor the contract her uncle had promised and in return he would get a wife to accompany him to social events. Jack is a partner in the same law firm as her uncle’s lawyer.
So, they marry and Rose enters into a strange life with a total stranger whose typical facial expression is an eternal frown, he’s relentlessly serious all the time, and at times he seems very complacent but at others he seems exasperated. Rose very soon took his measure, realized that although he’s a grumpy man, his bark was worse than his bite. Although he was very aloof, he picked her up from her coffee shop every afternoon, helped with physical chores that were too heavy for Rose, and was very attentive to her wishes and dreams. I immediately realized there were hidden depths to this guy and things were not as they seem.
I loved how Rose kept sassing Jack, and how she domesticated him. With Rose, Jack learned to greet the doorman of his building and to chat with their driver and to say thank you to servers. When she scolded him, he took her instructions to heart and behaved better next time. He seems grouchy and yet, he was quiet, intense and attentive. She kept counting smiles every day and it took a long time of sassing and sarcasm and endless chatter until she started to see her coveted smiles. All this meant that they were falling hard for each other, and that was inevitable. Rose was irresistible, she was all heart and enthusiasm and caring. I also fell in love with Jack because his demeanor was taught by breeding but he saw the light and changed his game. They were delightful together, a power couple.
Of course, not everything was paradise, and soon the problems started and the mystery started to unravel and this book changed from a slow burn to an impending implosion. Fantastic reading!
When the book starts, we see Rose and Jack getting married. Cue the song from Titanic, except there’s no drowning here, unless you count Rose drowning in Jack’s intense blue eyes. This is a fake marriage, concocted by Jack, who convinced Rose, to save her coffee house dream.
For years, Rose has been saving and dreaming of her own coffee house. Her uncle had promised to help her with a building in Madison Avenue, New York City. Yet, he died before she could finalize their contract, and instead he left the building to her future husband, if she were to be married at the time of his death. Since she had recently been dumped by her fiancee, she had no hopes until Jack approaches her with this plan of a fake marriage. He will honor the contract her uncle had promised and in return he would get a wife to accompany him to social events. Jack is a partner in the same law firm as her uncle’s lawyer.
So, they marry and Rose enters into a strange life with a total stranger whose typical facial expression is an eternal frown, he’s relentlessly serious all the time, and at times he seems very complacent but at others he seems exasperated. Rose very soon took his measure, realized that although he’s a grumpy man, his bark was worse than his bite. Although he was very aloof, he picked her up from her coffee shop every afternoon, helped with physical chores that were too heavy for Rose, and was very attentive to her wishes and dreams. I immediately realized there were hidden depths to this guy and things were not as they seem.
I loved how Rose kept sassing Jack, and how she domesticated him. With Rose, Jack learned to greet the doorman of his building and to chat with their driver and to say thank you to servers. When she scolded him, he took her instructions to heart and behaved better next time. He seems grouchy and yet, he was quiet, intense and attentive. She kept counting smiles every day and it took a long time of sassing and sarcasm and endless chatter until she started to see her coveted smiles. All this meant that they were falling hard for each other, and that was inevitable. Rose was irresistible, she was all heart and enthusiasm and caring. I also fell in love with Jack because his demeanor was taught by breeding but he saw the light and changed his game. They were delightful together, a power couple.
Of course, not everything was paradise, and soon the problems started and the mystery started to unravel and this book changed from a slow burn to an impending implosion. Fantastic reading!
3.5⭐
it was wayyyy to long and i love slow burn books but this one didnt work for me, i usually can finished slow burn book in 2 days or 1 but this one took me longer than 1 week, i was asking myself what was wrong and then it hit me, its not me its this book lol basically theres no plot so thats it
it was wayyyy to long and i love slow burn books but this one didnt work for me, i usually can finished slow burn book in 2 days or 1 but this one took me longer than 1 week, i was asking myself what was wrong and then it hit me, its not me its this book lol basically theres no plot so thats it
The dude didn’t have any emotions!!!