235 reviews for:

The Write Place

Allie Samberts

4.02 AVERAGE

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

*๐•‹๐•™๐•– ๐•Ž๐•ฃ๐•š๐•ฅ๐•– โ„™๐•๐•’๐•”๐•–
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I was given a place on the @buddyreadbooknook tour for this @alliesambertswrites book.

Mac is an English teacher & meets Evan who is in the city for a few weeks, they share a moment & go their separate ways.  Mac is then shocked when Evan turns up at her school on Monday, even more so when she realises who he really is!

This was such a lovely cute read, I laughed & I cried (obvs!)

I'm definitely looking forward to picking up Book 2

4โญ

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Oh how I miss the beginning of the school year as it turns to fall! 

Mac was one of the most relatable characters I have ever read about. She felt so cozy and like a little piece of home tucked away into my kindle! I loved her relationship with Jenny, and I really really enjoyed reading about teachers! English was my favorite subject growing up, so this definitely took me back to all of the memories I have with my nose stuck in books during class. 

Daniel was so dreamy and I need him immediately! (Donโ€™t tell my BF lmao) but seriously, I wish I could actually read the stories he wrote! 

This book was the perfect length to curl up in a blanket with and read in one sitting, and I really wish I had the opportunity to do that. 

Definitely pick this one up if you have the chance! 


lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Diverse cast of characters: No
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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

I loved this book, cute and cozy with relatable bookish characters. 
Following Mac a teacher, and Daniel a writer, whose novels Mac has loved for years, their instant spark and blossoming relationship made me smile, well up and swoon throughout and I didnโ€™t want it to end and I loved the end chapter from Daniels POV and how it finished the book. 
In fact I enjoyed it so much I immediately downloaded the next book The Write Time to read. 

It had potential but I just couldnโ€™t get into it with writing format.
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I really did love this book. 
However, Iโ€™m deducting a star because of Danielโ€™s POV bonus chapter. It has one little passage that set me off. He mentions the female antagonist not wanting children and it essentially being a character flaw. โ€œNothing with her was ever easy, and she made it very clear she never wants children.โ€ 
Alison, the female antagonist, is horrible from what weโ€™ve been told. She is given the traits of being condescending and manipulative. Not wanting children and being direct about it with your partner is not a character flaw! As note to this author and all authors, Please! Please! Please! Stop associating not wanting children with being a bad woman and partner. The two have no correlation. If anything her being honest about not wanting kids is a good trait. 
Iโ€™ve seen this a lot in the female antagonist trope and it needs to stop. Iโ€™m only writing this now because itโ€™s my most recent run in with it. As a CFBC woman I can not reiterate enough how damaging it is to us. For how many times โ€œfeministโ€ is dropped in this book, this trope is actively anti-feminist.
emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Man, look. There is a part in this book that is actually the most romantic romantic gesture Iโ€™ve ever read in a romance book. I swooned. I almost cried. 

And then the book went kinda weirdly off the trail for me. 

I LOVED the setup for this book, first of all, and Mac and Daniel were good characters - mostly. At first. Idk. Mac seemed sort of aggressively closed off, which was explained via backstory, but it was hard to rectify her attitude toward Daniel, her strong-headedness (a quality I LOVE in FMCs), with all the embarrassment, panic, and blushing. So much blushing. 

Daniel seemed very cute and sweet from the get-go, but I felt like he was very immature by the end. The Big Reveal/Conflict towards the end of the book was actually, for me, sort of a dealbreaker. Iโ€™m not sure why they got back together after that. 

Both of them were hiding so much from each other, that their big โ€œyes I choose youโ€ moment was missing a lot of weight. He gave a big romantic speech but it just felt idealistic and almost desperate - I didnโ€™t get the sense that, throughout the book, they were building a truly lasting foundation to a relationship. 

Iโ€™ll love this book forever for the scene where
Mac has her class read Danielโ€™s short story to help him see his true impact as an author
. Canโ€™t be mad at it for that. Not one bit. 

But yeah this one kind of fell short for me, unfortunately. 
emotional funny hopeful 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