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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
This is the first time I have read a book by Emma Lord and I am so glad I was able too!
June and Levi were best friends in their teenage years. However, due to a misunderstanding, Levi left for college and didn’t talk to June again. Years passed and then when both June and Levi go through public breakups, fate seems to bring them back together to mend their long lost relationship.
I enjoyed Levi and June’s story! It was a cute, quick read with some great tropes including friend to lovers, fake dating and slow burn! I would recommend this book to anyone who loves romance and needs a quick read this summer!
June and Levi were best friends in their teenage years. However, due to a misunderstanding, Levi left for college and didn’t talk to June again. Years passed and then when both June and Levi go through public breakups, fate seems to bring them back together to mend their long lost relationship.
I enjoyed Levi and June’s story! It was a cute, quick read with some great tropes including friend to lovers, fake dating and slow burn! I would recommend this book to anyone who loves romance and needs a quick read this summer!
Kept feeling like I was missing plot points, and it was really dramatic at times (didn’t need the “crying because the first time they slept together was so magical” moment)
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
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
medium-paced
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Thank you to St. Martin’s Griffin and Netgalley for an ARC of this book which I voluntarily read and reviewed. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
THE BREAK-UP PACT was the absolute best way to end my reading year. It is filled with everything I’ve come to expect from Emma Lord—banter and jokes, beautiful writing, growth of characters, and a love story to swoon over while also exploring other topics like grief or family dynamics—but with more adult romance spice that only adds to the story.
June and Levi, coincidentally, have both gone viral for their breakups. And, even though an incident when they were teenagers led to them barely communicating, both have found themselves back in their small hometown and suddenly thrust into a mutually beneficial fake relationship where they’re now known as the Revenge Exes. June is hoping the attention will allow her to save her deceased sister’s beloved tea shop while Levi is hoping to win back his cheating ex.
I loved the different fake dates June and Levi found themselves in and could vividly picture, through Emma Lord’s words, the social media posts described and the excitement around these two scorned lovers finding love with one another. And though the concept seems like a basic friends pretending to be lovers turning their fake relationship into something real, I was so impressed by how much deeper the novel gets. There is some amazing exploration of grief, friendship, family, and I never once found myself feeling frustrated by the characters for a lack of communication (something I’ve found that often happens in the fake dating trope). Every single character was likeable (except the ones that weren’t meant to be!) and all these elements combined made THE BREAK-UP PACT an incredibly enjoyable read that I’ll be thinking about in the days to come.
THE BREAK-UP PACT was the absolute best way to end my reading year. It is filled with everything I’ve come to expect from Emma Lord—banter and jokes, beautiful writing, growth of characters, and a love story to swoon over while also exploring other topics like grief or family dynamics—but with more adult romance spice that only adds to the story.
June and Levi, coincidentally, have both gone viral for their breakups. And, even though an incident when they were teenagers led to them barely communicating, both have found themselves back in their small hometown and suddenly thrust into a mutually beneficial fake relationship where they’re now known as the Revenge Exes. June is hoping the attention will allow her to save her deceased sister’s beloved tea shop while Levi is hoping to win back his cheating ex.
I loved the different fake dates June and Levi found themselves in and could vividly picture, through Emma Lord’s words, the social media posts described and the excitement around these two scorned lovers finding love with one another. And though the concept seems like a basic friends pretending to be lovers turning their fake relationship into something real, I was so impressed by how much deeper the novel gets. There is some amazing exploration of grief, friendship, family, and I never once found myself feeling frustrated by the characters for a lack of communication (something I’ve found that often happens in the fake dating trope). Every single character was likeable (except the ones that weren’t meant to be!) and all these elements combined made THE BREAK-UP PACT an incredibly enjoyable read that I’ll be thinking about in the days to come.
I realize I’m saying this about a beach read romcom literally set at the beach in the summer, but this book was just too cheesy for my taste. The story is weighed down by long-winded paragraphs detailing the FMC’s emotional state—despite her consistently poor judgment, especially when it comes to men.
Her ex is a high school classmate she dated for ten years, even though she never really liked him. He ends up haranguing her on a reality show while flaunting a new girlfriend. Naturally, she goes back on the same show, only to get humiliated again. Why? I have no idea.
Then there’s the love interest: a man who was cheated on and left, yet spends most of the book trying to win back his ex. At one point, he literally leaves the FMC at a wildly inappropriate moment to go chasing after her.
I just couldn’t figure out why the FMC would want anything to do with either of them.
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