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Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

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cdkm9's review against another edition

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hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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astound's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful 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? No

4.25

A fun, well-written story. The main characters are lovely, and I was immediately drawn in by the voice. There were some mildly annoying moments, but overall this was a delightful read.

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edhyndman's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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kcarney86's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

4.75

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allonsyahhlee's review

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

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wilybooklover's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

This was so lovely. The writing especially; so rich and tied into fonts and letters and signs in a way that makes sense with the heroine’s occupation. I loved Meg, I loved Reid, I loved Meg and Reid together. Their story is tender and quietly romantic. I enjoyed reading Meg’s journey of learning proper conflict resolution and valuing her own worth after a lifetime of passiveness and conflict avoidance. It was fun seeing her overcoming creative block via playing games with Reid and showing him the city she loves. She’s a quirky, whimsical heroine, but in a realistic way, not a manic pixie dream girl type of way. Reid may be one of my favourite heroes ever. He’s awkward and nerdy and stoic, yet also respectful and protective and willing to own up to his mistakes. He’s direct, but not intentionally rude. Oh, and this may sound weird but I LOVED that he has psoriasis. It’s so rare that romance characters have any kind of skin condition. I have eczema and don’t think I’ve ever even seen the word in a romance novel, so it was really nice to see that representation.

I really liked how the third act conflict was something external to the couple. Meg had some doubts initially, but she was willing to listen to Reid’s explanations without any dramatics or misreading of the situation. So much more enjoyable to read than a big breakup and barely any time left to resolve it.

I do kind of wish the friend drama had been left out. I mean, first of all, with friends like Sibby who needs enemies? I think I would’ve preferred to see Meg navigate ending the friendship instead of maintaining a relationship with someone who was such a terrible friend for such a long time. Meg deserved better. But as much as I enjoy reading about friendships, I just find reading about friend issues boring. Every time I’d be enjoying the romantic development and then we’d get another chapter of friend drama and it would stall my interest in the story. I think there were already enough side-plots between two separate work plots for Meg and the twist at the end. I wanted a little bit less focus on bad friends and more on Meg and Reid’s relationship because I really loved their dynamic.

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meganpbennett's review

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I have very mixed feelings about Love Lettering. I really dislike Meg's character, and completely disagree with her decision to encode "MISTAKE" on Reid's wedding invitation. Who does that?! It's morally and ethically wrong, and I would never trust her to create anything for me. I know that the pattern is used within the story as a what alerts Reid to the

fraud his boss's company is doing

, but it completely put me off Meg as a character. I also found her to be whiny. I don't like stream of consciousness as a writing style, and that also detracted from the story. I'm not sure if it was the digital edition or not, but the type-faces within the story didn't work well with the digital edition. The idea was there, and it was oh so brilliant an idea, but the execution of the idea could have been better.

All of that being said, the story really got itself together and became a much better story about 70% of the way through, when Meg meets with the planner company and then learns about the above mentioned spoiler. I greatly enjoyed that plot twist, and thought that it was very well done and worked quite well with the story. While didn't love the story, I found that this greatly improved the storyline.

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