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The Break-Up Pact

Emma Lord

3.45 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

danielle233's review

3.0
funny slow-paced

Social media stories are not for me
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

this book was so overwhelmingly mediocre and i found it so hard to become invested. the whole way through i was so disconnected from it all. im not sure if this was a me problem or actually the book :/
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carizwerg's review

3.75
funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My expectations were way too high for this one, and I sadly ended up disappointed. I still loved the characters’ journey, the setting, and the fake dating trope, but it didn’t stand out from other contemporary romance books with the same theme

Single POV
emotional reflective medium-paced

It was good, but I feel like it was very surface level. I wanted memories of them as kids and flashbacks that would make the present more powerful. Their connection also felt very surface level. I wasn’t on the edge of my seat or anything because they were finally getting along or finding out that they were into each other, as is what happens with fake dating usually. They got along the whole time, and it didn’t really keep me as invested the whole time.

Also, the whole reality tv show confused me a little and idk why she decided to go back, knowing how it would probably end. I guess the whole idea of the publicity confused me too, because why do people care? I can totally see her becoming a meme because the internet is super mean like that, but idk why people would be obsessed with it to the extent of lining up outside her store and having paparazzi. I wouldn’t care, tbh. I’d see the meme, sigh because Griffin just seems like the normal kind of dude I’d see at college, and move on with my life. Maybe I’d think it’s kinda cute that June and Levi got together after being besties in childhood and trauma bonding over public humiliation, but I’m not starting a fanclub or anything, yk?