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3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
this is one of the best things I've read in awhile though, honestly, it's hard to keep track. i loved everything about this; the thrown in tidbits of astrology, the glitter in elle's hair, the notebooks, the thrift store, the double date with brendon. it was all too wonderful. each character was so well developed and loved each of them and their interactions with one another. my only complaint - which seems to be a popular complaint - is the length and some of the somewhat unresolved issues. there were a few things just thrown in there near the end that could've been flushed out and made the book all the more better. but regardless i loved this book with everything in me. 4.5*
I really enjoyed the whole “fake relationship” trope and the sex scenes were good, but this relationship is NOT going to last. They basically trauma bonded over having sucky families and then decided that since opposites attract, they must be soul mates. And these two were OPPOSITES. My husband and I are quite different in some ways, but we actually believe in what the other does, we have conversations and communicate before having giant meltdowns, and we actually talk about our feelings instead of writing page after page of descriptions. Seriously, a large percentage of this book is them thinking about how they feel, using multiple metaphors.
i’ll give this one 2.5 stars because i feel conflicted. i think my biggest issue with this book is that it made no sense for elle to agree to fake-date darcy!!! she would get literally nothing out of it, and risked ruining her new business deal with brendan. the author never made a good argument for elle agreeing to it. anyway, the first third of this book was hard to get through because of the writing style, and i almost gave up. then it got really good about halfway through, but then it just ended so abruptly right after the main conflict was introduced. i do feel like there wasn’t enough time to really let the enemies to lovers trope play out, and elle and darcy fell for each other too fast. it was only a few weeks after they started fake-dating that they got really serious. i really liked each character, but ultimately the book lost me.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
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
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Abandonment
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
lighthearted
medium-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
2.5 stars. This was a generally cute opposites-attract story. I adored Elle (a bohemian astronomist), but Darcy came off as stuck-up snob ice queen (an actuary whose entire personality is thinking boxed wine is inferior and who orders $56 GLASSES of wine on a first date). I'm with Elle on that one: WTF!! Overall, I think the author pushed it a little to the extreme in terms of opposites-attract as I felt the characters came off as more stereotypically opposite than organically opposite. While Elle had some issues to work out (feelings of inadequacy), Darcy obviously needed to be in therapy to take on her issues surrounding the end of her engagement from 2 1/2 years before. Bottom line: both of them needed to GO TO THERAPY. Overall, I feel that Elle had more character development and I enjoyed seeing her gain confidence in herself as the story progressed. However, I would have liked to see more of a denouement with less of a transparently engineered conflict generator at the end. Also, the ending was beyond abrupt (for all the talk of Darcy's exam, it would have been nice to know if she passed it, for example). This was my first sapphic romance, and it's awesome that it was written by an own-voices LGBTQ+ author. Wish it was a stronger story on the whole, but it kept my attention enough to not DNF it.