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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
Reread again. <3
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I stopped reading before the last few chapters for a while, and I'm regretting it! It was so sweet and heartfelt, and as someone who is socially anxious, I really cried by the end for these two. It just felt so personal to me! Maybe I'm just all over the place right now, but man I never knew I can cry so much for a romance book! Wesley really stole my heart. I love his character! It speaks so much to me! Really wish I can find this kind of love.
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I stopped reading before the last few chapters for a while, and I'm regretting it! It was so sweet and heartfelt, and as someone who is socially anxious, I really cried by the end for these two. It just felt so personal to me! Maybe I'm just all over the place right now, but man I never knew I can cry so much for a romance book! Wesley really stole my heart. I love his character! It speaks so much to me! Really wish I can find this kind of love.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
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
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
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
Oh my gosh, this was so cute! I was a little worried after reading quite a few mixed reviews that it didn't live up to the hype of "You Deserve Each Other", but I totally disagree. This was just so so sweet! Sweet as in- gives you butterflies and I have to kick and scream to myself over just how sweet it is. Easy read and I just really enjoyed it. If you like sweet, wholesome romance I'd definitely recommend.
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
he doesn't kiss like a dream, doesn't touch like a fantasy. he is wesley, real. my imagination will spend the next thousand years chasing the memory of this: welsey. real. it will never get it right because he is beyond imagining. nothing beats real.
this was so sweet and cheesy in the best way!! definitely a different vibe from you deserve each other (which i still prefer), but a lovely read nonetheless. hogle has easily become one of my new fav contemporary romance writers :')
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-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
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
“Rain is the perfect weather condition for a love story, so naturally, it must be raining at the conclusion of it.”
This book was super short and cute! This has been a highly anticipated read for me since reading and LOVE Hogle’s debut; You Deserve Each Other.
This book felt just as unique as You Deserve Each Other, which is a big part as to why I liked it as much as I did. I also loved exploring Wesley’s social anxiety. It’s not often that I read about a character who struggles with that, so that was a nice touch.
The story was well paced and sentimental, while also being quite fluffy! I loved watching Maybell and Weasley go from being unsure of one another, to becoming close friends, and then of course, finally falling in love. It took them SO long to kiss, I was dying! But Wesley is probably the sweetest human being ever, I need all males to be as sweet as him!
The only thing I really didn’t like was Maybell’s daydreaming. I get that we all do it, and we all should, but hers felt extremely childish for her age and felt more like she was dissociating than anything else. Maybe that’s just the social worker in me talking?
I would love to read more of their story, especially with their hotel/animal sanctuary!
“It feels like fate. The best myth of them all.”
adventurous
emotional
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
(4.5⭐️) Taylor Swift Songs: “sweet nothing”, “everything has changed (tv)”!! I’m switching it up and adding a taylor-adjacent song (from the Hannah Montana movie that she was in), but the song “Dream” by Miley Cyrus perfectly describes this book.
Holy crap how did I wait this long to read this book?? If you love slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, and forced proximity you will LOVE this!! I instantly fell in love with the premise and the characters! Maybell inherits her aunt’s old house, but she has to share it with the groundskeeper who the aunt also left it to. They have to learn to live with each other, despite their completely different dreams and aspirations for the property. This book is full of character growth and overcoming grief as well as being such a sweet romance/Romcom. This book was giving such Hannah Montana movie/Miley Cyrus summer vibes!! It made my heart melt and I wanted to cry happy tears!!
I LOVED Maybell and her journey of sticking up for herself and not accepting people who hurt her or treat her poorly. It was so empowering to see her character arc, where she completely girlbossed and cut the toxic people out of her life. There is something so incredibly satisfying and saccharine-sweet about seeing the male lead, Wesley, slowly open up to Maybell. As someone with intense social anxiety, I found this portrayal of it to be so honest. It is comforting to know that someone struggles with the same things that I do, and seeing him slowly go on a journey of acceptance and letting himself know that he is worthy of love exactly how he is, was heartwarming. This book is healing me, it was like a warm hug, so thank you Sarah Hogle. I adore this book, and anything that Sarah Hogle writes, and I regret taking this long to read it.
Age rating: 13+ (adult characters but not steamy/smutty)
Holy crap how did I wait this long to read this book?? If you love slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, and forced proximity you will LOVE this!! I instantly fell in love with the premise and the characters! Maybell inherits her aunt’s old house, but she has to share it with the groundskeeper who the aunt also left it to. They have to learn to live with each other, despite their completely different dreams and aspirations for the property. This book is full of character growth and overcoming grief as well as being such a sweet romance/Romcom. This book was giving such Hannah Montana movie/Miley Cyrus summer vibes!! It made my heart melt and I wanted to cry happy tears!!
I LOVED Maybell and her journey of sticking up for herself and not accepting people who hurt her or treat her poorly. It was so empowering to see her character arc, where she completely girlbossed and cut the toxic people out of her life. There is something so incredibly satisfying and saccharine-sweet about seeing the male lead, Wesley, slowly open up to Maybell. As someone with intense social anxiety, I found this portrayal of it to be so honest. It is comforting to know that someone struggles with the same things that I do, and seeing him slowly go on a journey of acceptance and letting himself know that he is worthy of love exactly how he is, was heartwarming. This book is healing me, it was like a warm hug, so thank you Sarah Hogle. I adore this book, and anything that Sarah Hogle writes, and I regret taking this long to read it.
Age rating: 13+ (adult characters but not steamy/smutty)
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content