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Mejor que en las películas by Lynn Painter

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kashiish's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

“but news flash: you’re not a character in a movie. you can wear jeans sometimes and straighten your hair if you feel like it and curse like a sailor and honestly do whatever you want, and she’d still think you’re amazing because you are. i guarantee she would’ve found you charming as fuck when you were smoking a swisher in the secret area— i know i did. ”

the song that describes the book the best is — someone like you by adele

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thebookwhale's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted

2.75

I was soooo exited for this book. Soooo exited. I LOVE LOVE LOVE fluffy cute cheesy romances so so much. But. This didn't live up to the expectations AT ALL.

But first, one positive thing. Luckily, the plot felt reasonable. Like, often when there's enemies/friends to lovers, it just doesn't make any sense that they're not together already. I felt like this wasn't the case here. Also, it wasn't too cringe to read. I loved the romance in the end and I loved how Wes showed that he loved Liz.

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I just really hate Liz so much and I don't even know why. I think she's so annoying, it's unbearable. Second hand embarrassment whenever she's talking. I mean, I think it's cute that she's so obsessed with love, that really formed her character. However, I feel like this obsession with recreating a movie like romance in real life kinda went on my nerves after it was mentioned for 10 times.

In general, this book promised a lot of things it didn't give. For example, the fake dating? What was that? Or better, where? They didn't fake date for a single second, Wes just brought Liz to some events of his friend group. They had a fake friendship, ok, but please don't market it as a book with the fake dating trope.

I also felt like I never really got to know the characters. For example, Jocelyn? She's supposed to be Liz' best friend, but what do we know about her? Nothing.
I get that it's a romance book so the focus will obviously be on that, but that doesn't mean you can just abandon every other character and use them as fillers. Besides Micheal, there wasn't any character that had any significance to the plot, which I think is really sad. You could interpret this in 2 ways:
1. Liz being extremely self centered so that she doesn't notice what the people around her have going on in their lives or
2. just bad writing that is too focused on the main character.
I'd say it is a mix of both

Liz states that she knows Wes a lot better than anyone else, then TELL US? Who is he? Aside from that witty mean guy that tries to steal her parking spot? Ah, he plays baseball, right.
Still, Wes is one of the better characters in this book. Feels weird to me how Liz couldn't have noticed what a great guy he actually is. I would love to read the book on his pov.
Also, Liz' hate for Laney? Seems unreasonable. Yeah, she was mean to you in pre school, but if you always watched her, how did you not notice her change, Liz? She was never actively mean to you in the present. Liz said some things about Laney and also joss that just really felt icky for me.
Whatever. I expected more.
Barely 2.75 / 5

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cdoubet's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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spill_the_tea's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

Read this because of Haley Pham;) Love the playlist in the back of the book. The recommendation on the back is so right too!

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eviejo_07's review against another edition

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emotional funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

I enjoyed this book way more than I thought I would! It was actually so cute 😂 I couldn’t personally rate it 5 stars because there was quite a bit of profanity and some suggestive dialogue. If not for that than definitely five stars! The banter between the two main characters was very funny and well written and I found it hard to put this book down. Very fun read. It even has a playlist in the back! 🤩

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