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readuntilthelastpage's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content
gotta_read_em_all's review against another edition
emotional
funny
inspiring
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? No
5.0
Started and Finished in one day and it was such a good story! I laughed and cried and felt all the feels. I've seen ALS up close so the characters really hit home for me. Even with the layer of harsh reality I felt the good times.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Content Warnings
Moderate: Drug abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Death
Minor: Abandonment
midnightbelles's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I really enjoyed this. I love a good found family (ish) trope and I especially loved getting to see Them fall in love and really compliment each other as a couple. Since I finally finished all 3 books in the series I will have to say that this one is better than the first in my opinion but nothing tops the happy ever after playlist. This book was really lighthearted and overall a quick and fluffy read. Just reading about them interacting and falling in love was enough for me.
Synopsis: Vanessa, a famous YouTuber who travels to live her best life before she dies due to ALS, meets her neighbor one night at 3am when he tries to convince her to get her baby to shut up. Seeing the terrible state she’s in because of the baby, he offers to help and they quickly fall for each other but hold back from dating. For him it’s because she doesn’t date and for her it’s because she doesn’t believe she’ll live long enough.
This book deals with a lot of heavy topics with her sisters drug addiction and other family issues but it’s handled well and is dispersed in with the fluff and romantic/happier moments.
Synopsis: Vanessa, a famous YouTuber who travels to live her best life before she dies due to ALS, meets her neighbor one night at 3am when he tries to convince her to get her baby to shut up. Seeing the terrible state she’s in because of the baby, he offers to help and they quickly fall for each other but hold back from dating. For him it’s because she doesn’t date and for her it’s because she doesn’t believe she’ll live long enough.
This book deals with a lot of heavy topics with her sisters drug addiction and other family issues but it’s handled well and is dispersed in with the fluff and romantic/happier moments.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Mental illness, Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Medical content and Car accident
kshertz's review against another edition
emotional
funny
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
This book just makes you fall in love with their love story. It makes you believe in happiness for everyone and then, just, rips it all away until you’re a crying mess on the floor. It’s a hard book to get through because although it’s fiction, it touches on many different truths about life. I loved it but the ending was just too sad to make it a perfect 5.0 and I was not warned about it ahead of time so it scarred me a little bit I think.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Addiction
yeojinqueen's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Medical content, Abandonment, Addiction, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Ableism
zabeishumanish's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
slow-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? No
5.0
I ugly cried for the last quarter of the book. Good did I love it. A beautiful meaningful impactful romance. I adored the found parenthood aspect watching two people unexpectedly fall in love with their daughter, and each other. As much as I loved the whole book, the beginning with them being friends felt the most special and real.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, and Medical content
ASL is discussed at length in the book and several of the main character’s loved one died from it. The main character fears she also has ASL, ultimately though her medical issues aren’t chronic.tea_t's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
oceannec's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
fast-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? No
2.75
I went into this book hopeful but quickly found myself losing interest in it. It was okay but not a “stay-up-all-night-and-binge-read” kind of book. I found it to be too much, it felt like something new was always happening and things were flying by so fast. I don’t exactly know what it is about it but it just didn’t resonate with me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Abandonment and Addiction
paxyshia's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
4.5! Okay if there’s an Abby Jimenez book you should read, it should be this one. I was thoroughly impressed!
Definitely for you if you enjoy:
- Strangers to friends to lovers (the friends part is essential ok)
- Oblivious mutual pining
- Single parent/guardianship
tw: terminal illness, mentions of death of parent and sibling, drug abuse
Vanessa quit her boring job to travel the world but she didn’t think she’d become famous for it. After her viral video, she’s finally living a fun life seeing places she never imagined seeing and her mom and sister not make it to 30, she didn’t want to take any chances.
When she comes in custody of her niece, her life is thrown for an ultimate shift and one night when the baby is up crying, she doesn’t expect hot lawyer Adrian Copeland to come knocking on her door to help and showing off his secret babysitter skills or that she’d be spending more time with him.
Watching Adrian being good with the baby, having marathons and dinners with him and falling just a little in love with him, she finds herself doing the one thing she didn’t expect herself to be doing: hoping for a future that may never come.
📚
I was blooooooown away by this one! Her first two books in the series did not have me ready for this. I was thoroughly impressed by the switch up and really suprised me. I had some expectation for what the plot would be and what her characters are usually written like and although there was some of that, this one is definitely in a league of its own.
It was fun and real and so human to me. Adrian’s character was charismatic and sweet while Vanessa was like a breath of fresh air. Both characters dealt with real family and personal things and were more complex than Jimenez’s past characters and that’s what made this book so incredible. I usually love more involvement with babies/kids and the fuzzy feelings of seeing one’s love interest spend time with them but I didn’t mind that the baby didn’t have a starring role. It was a fun component (for me at least because I like the trope) to add and I like the way it was all handled.
The topics discussed in this book were heavier than the past ones too but yes, it was all solved in the end but with Jimenez’s past two books, it just seemed like such magical endings. This one seemed just a little more believable.
Also, I know her other two books mention bits and pieces of Minnesota but this one being set in St. Paul/Minnesota was fun. Like, ooooh! Stillwater? Yeah I know that place! I love reading about Minnesota as a setting, it’s fun for me, a born and raised Minnesotan lol
I liked this one a lot and am excited to see if Jimenez will continue to write rom coms as wonderful as this one. And just 1 mention of her cake business! You keep girlbossing Abby!
Definitely for you if you enjoy:
- Strangers to friends to lovers (the friends part is essential ok)
- Oblivious mutual pining
- Single parent/guardianship
tw: terminal illness, mentions of death of parent and sibling, drug abuse
Vanessa quit her boring job to travel the world but she didn’t think she’d become famous for it. After her viral video, she’s finally living a fun life seeing places she never imagined seeing and her mom and sister not make it to 30, she didn’t want to take any chances.
When she comes in custody of her niece, her life is thrown for an ultimate shift and one night when the baby is up crying, she doesn’t expect hot lawyer Adrian Copeland to come knocking on her door to help and showing off his secret babysitter skills or that she’d be spending more time with him.
Watching Adrian being good with the baby, having marathons and dinners with him and falling just a little in love with him, she finds herself doing the one thing she didn’t expect herself to be doing: hoping for a future that may never come.
📚
I was blooooooown away by this one! Her first two books in the series did not have me ready for this. I was thoroughly impressed by the switch up and really suprised me. I had some expectation for what the plot would be and what her characters are usually written like and although there was some of that, this one is definitely in a league of its own.
It was fun and real and so human to me. Adrian’s character was charismatic and sweet while Vanessa was like a breath of fresh air. Both characters dealt with real family and personal things and were more complex than Jimenez’s past characters and that’s what made this book so incredible. I usually love more involvement with babies/kids and the fuzzy feelings of seeing one’s love interest spend time with them but I didn’t mind that the baby didn’t have a starring role. It was a fun component (for me at least because I like the trope) to add and I like the way it was all handled.
The topics discussed in this book were heavier than the past ones too but yes, it was all solved in the end but with Jimenez’s past two books, it just seemed like such magical endings. This one seemed just a little more believable.
Also, I know her other two books mention bits and pieces of Minnesota but this one being set in St. Paul/Minnesota was fun. Like, ooooh! Stillwater? Yeah I know that place! I love reading about Minnesota as a setting, it’s fun for me, a born and raised Minnesotan lol
I liked this one a lot and am excited to see if Jimenez will continue to write rom coms as wonderful as this one. And just 1 mention of her cake business! You keep girlbossing Abby!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Terminal illness and Drug abuse
Minor: Death and Death of parent
nicolelovesbooks's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
fast-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? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Chronic illness and Addiction
Minor: Death
ALS, fostering/adoption