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B.K. Borison

4.17 AVERAGE

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

"Make room for me" 🥵🥵🥵

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hopeful lighthearted tense slow-paced

felt like nothing happened for most of the book

4.75 ⭐️

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

They explained freezing rain wrong but otherwise it was fine
emotional funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is the perfect romance book! I mean it's based on one of the best rom-coms of all time ... Sleepless in Seattle. The chemistry, the banter, and how realistic their relationship felt.
I will be recommending this book to all!

4.5⭐️

I just love BK Borison
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I enjoyed this one! That said, I think I read it at the wrong time :( I enjoyed the first 75% of the book but the last 25% was a little slow for me? Like we know the leads will inevitably end up together, so I kind of just wanted that to happen. Aiden's internal conundrums were a little tedious by that point. Additionally, I got sucked into another romance series that ate up my attention/brain space, which made this story pale a little bit in comparison because it wasn't exactly what I was looking for in the moment. Nevertheless, this was a fun listen! I laughed out loud multiple times. Sometimes rough dating periods make for some great stories, and I think Lucie's didn't disappoint.
She meets some douche canoes and one really sweet guy with an O name (Oliver? Owen?) that Aiden purposefully misremembers out of pettiness. 

I really liked Lucie! It was cool she's a car mechanic and a single mom with her baby daddy and his husband. (Like can we appreciate the fact that Lucie is a frickin car mechanic? I've never read about an fmc car mechanic before!) I like that books are representing different family structures more and more these days. And I liked that Matteo, their daughter's bonus dad, was just as much a parent as Lucie and Grayson. Maya was a hoot and I love that she takes charge of her mom's happiness. Honestly, I'm not sure how realistic that is -- I know my mom wouldn't have been enthusiastic with my blasting her romantic life on radio... but the premise was cute.  

As many of the reviews already say, this did feel a little long, and maybe that's why I checked out around the last quarter. Aiden clearly had issues to work through. He could've used some good ol' fashioned therapy 😁 At times, he got on my nerves a bit with his inability to commit. I liked the side characters, like the other radio station people -- the weather-obsessed dude, Jackson, was also pretty funny. And I appreciated the station manager, Maggie; she's tough and business oriented, but also cares about the characters' feelings. The guys at the car mechanic shop were a hoot. 

I liked the interspersed bits of the actual radio show slotted in between chapters. It's definitely a unique format for a romance novel. We've seen a few books do this for thrillers (None of This is True by Lisa Jewell and Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera).
 

I don't have a ton to say about this. It was cute, and a good palate cleanser 🙂

The hype of this book had me questioning it from the start, but it was a solid contemporary romance. Some elements felt unrealistic, like who actually calls radio shows and has a supportive bisexual co-parent anyway? But I appreciated the representation aspects of the book, like the fact that the FMC was a single mom working in a male-dominated field and had no bio family support, and both MCs had average joe jobs. The strongest theme was found family, and it just worked for the storyline. I also appreciated that Bmore was the center of this story - it's city doesn't get enough love ❤️
funny medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes