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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
This book gave me too many feelings and too few (none) eggplant. Rude.
Story was cute and I love reading about real adults who interact like adults. Side characters were precious and I love that Hailey stayed true to herself throughout. Writing was good and it really made me feel big feelings. It was fade to black or whatever so that was disappointing after such a slow burn!
Story was cute and I love reading about real adults who interact like adults. Side characters were precious and I love that Hailey stayed true to herself throughout. Writing was good and it really made me feel big feelings. It was fade to black or whatever so that was disappointing after such a slow burn!
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:
Yes
2.5/5
A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
I haven’t read an ARC in a while, so shout-out to this book for being the first one in months. This is my first book from Sophie Sullivan, but I definitely have some of her others on my TBR!
This one… oh man. It took me a WHILE to get through. Even 55-70% of the way through, I felt like there wasn’t much happening. No big issue, no big conflict, no big resolution… I liked the characters, but I didn’t feel super connected to any of them. I picked it up solely because I was reading it with some friends and was really behind and didn’t want to let them down by DNFing it lol, but I wasn’t motivated at all to finish it! It was a slow slow burn, and I’m quickly realizing that slow burns are not for me. It was a cute story, but overall, I just wish more happened.
A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review!
I haven’t read an ARC in a while, so shout-out to this book for being the first one in months. This is my first book from Sophie Sullivan, but I definitely have some of her others on my TBR!
This one… oh man. It took me a WHILE to get through. Even 55-70% of the way through, I felt like there wasn’t much happening. No big issue, no big conflict, no big resolution… I liked the characters, but I didn’t feel super connected to any of them. I picked it up solely because I was reading it with some friends and was really behind and didn’t want to let them down by DNFing it lol, but I wasn’t motivated at all to finish it! It was a slow slow burn, and I’m quickly realizing that slow burns are not for me. It was a cute story, but overall, I just wish more happened.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
emotional
funny
lighthearted
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:
Yes
This was a good, standard rate rom-com. I liked it more than the second book, but I still think I liked the first one the best. I liked both main characters and their chemistry together, although I wondered about a quarter of the way through if the pacing was going to make sense, or if it would drag. In the end, the pacing was fine. The two main characters had the typical traumas they had to overcome to be happy together, but I didn’t mind that. Their issues were pretty realistic, although they could both probably benefit from some therapy. One thing that needs to be corrected is later on in the story, the phrase “bury the lead” is used, but the correct phrase is actually “bury the lede”.
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me access to this eARC for my honest opinion!
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me access to this eARC for my honest opinion!
Thank you to netgalley and St. Martins press for the advanced copy of this book. I read the second in the series , still need to read book one, and when I heard Wes was getting a story I was excited .
Hailey is a charismatic character that you can’t help but fall in love with in the beginning. She’s energetic, bubbly and easily excitable . She is learning to trust herself and learn to accept help without feeling like she’s failing. She spends most of her time fighting her own feelings about Wes until she can’t anymore. Her past relationships
Wes struggled the most with fighting feelings . He felt that letting someone all the way in would cause him to lose everything he’s built up. From the beginning, you saw how much he felt but was so scared to actually let himself completely
Go. He’s such a sweetheart at the core but his defenses often get in the way of him being free. Hailey helped him to let go and be more open and honest. He is protective at the core and he always means well. With Hailey , he learned that love doesn’t have to be as scary as he thought it would be.
While I appreciated this book, I felt that some of the friends to lovers storyline was a tad dragged out . It felt that their denying their feelings was a tad too much but it still makes sense for their storyline. This was more of a specific preference of mine , but I really enjoyed the story I rated it 4 stars .
Hailey is a charismatic character that you can’t help but fall in love with in the beginning. She’s energetic, bubbly and easily excitable . She is learning to trust herself and learn to accept help without feeling like she’s failing. She spends most of her time fighting her own feelings about Wes until she can’t anymore. Her past relationships
Wes struggled the most with fighting feelings . He felt that letting someone all the way in would cause him to lose everything he’s built up. From the beginning, you saw how much he felt but was so scared to actually let himself completely
Go. He’s such a sweetheart at the core but his defenses often get in the way of him being free. Hailey helped him to let go and be more open and honest. He is protective at the core and he always means well. With Hailey , he learned that love doesn’t have to be as scary as he thought it would be.
While I appreciated this book, I felt that some of the friends to lovers storyline was a tad dragged out . It felt that their denying their feelings was a tad too much but it still makes sense for their storyline. This was more of a specific preference of mine , but I really enjoyed the story I rated it 4 stars .
funny
lighthearted
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:
Yes
This was my first book by Sophie Sulliva and I had no idea it was part of a series! I was drawn to the adorable cover and the title, as a sucker for the friends to lovers trope. I didn't have expectations going into this romcom and I'm glad for that. While it was a short and sweet read, the characters and plot lacked depth and chemistry. I didn't feel like the characters were all that three dimensional. Considering I didn't know of Wes's character beforehand from the other books in the series, I did feel like he was the one I got to know the best. The last thing I want to experience in a romance novel is repetitiveness; between the characters dialogue and the plot. What I kept getting was a lot of the same, for example Hailey and her salads. Her salad business got very old, very quickly. As well as her stubborn determination to push away help when it was offered with good intentions. I understood, she didn't want help because she said so every other chapter. Romances are all about the connection. If the reader doesn't fall for the couple, it's a bust. I didn't root for Wes and Haily as a couple. I honestly preferred them as friends. I didn't buy their romantic connection because they were simply lacking connection. I think that attributes to how the characters were written as individuals. Overall this was an easy read, however it was an incredibly slow one. I thought it was cute, but unfortunately fell flat for me.
There’s no way to describe it other than: this book felt flat.
There wasn’t ever really a moment that made the MCs feel like real people. They were just a smattering of cliches and tropes and some predictable but poorly fleshed out drama to keep things sort of interesting.
And random people kept showing up that weren’t really fleshed out at all but expected to be accepted as part of the larger cast. (Yes I know this is part of a larger universe of books but would it be so hard to write a sentence or two about someone’s general personality?)
It wasn’t for me.