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Not the Plan by Gia de Cadenet

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nmfcarney's review

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

2.5


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sarah_thebooknerd's review

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challenging emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

3.75 ⭐️ 
2 🌶 

CW: sexual abuse, blackmail, mental illness, emotionally abusive parter and parent

This book is a political romance where the main couple meets on a plane flight, hit it off and go their separate ways only to run into each other at work. They work for adversary politicians. 

I did enjoy the political conversations, the support and build of the relationship. 

Where I struggled with this book:

- Borderline personality disorder is often seen as one of the “bad” mental illnesses and it feels off to continue to use tropes making people that suffer from mental illness as The villains of the stories.

-it was a little cheesy at times and I personally struggle with cheesy 

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