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3.18 AVERAGE
3.18 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
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
A happy-go-lucky, apart from one sad interlude, funny look at letting a coin make the decisions, both big and small, when you just don't trust your own judgement anymore.
Very easy to read, a wonderful opening on the London Eye and lots of great characters supporting Josh in his endeavours to get on with life by way of flipping his 50 pence coin.
The All-Jays are a local pub quiz team, but they are also Josh's friends, Jessie and Jake and Jake's boyfriend Jake. They mostly never win but they do come together frequently to support one another in life, love, careers and all those big moments we all experience in life where we just need another perspective
Will Josh recover from an emotional slump? Will he discover what he wants to do in the future? Will he and the fellow All-Jays ever beat the Quizlamist Extremists? And will Josh find the Sunflower Girl in Germany, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Tokyo or France? Or maybe not at all?
I loved the date scene in the pizza parlour with the birthday offer which was very funny and mostly found Josh's adventures an enjoyable and light-hearted escape from less humorous and more tedious real life days.
Follow Josh and enjoy his mishaps by choosing to read this book rather than flipping a coin. It will bring some sunshine into these dark and dreary November days.
Very easy to read, a wonderful opening on the London Eye and lots of great characters supporting Josh in his endeavours to get on with life by way of flipping his 50 pence coin.
The All-Jays are a local pub quiz team, but they are also Josh's friends, Jessie and Jake and Jake's boyfriend Jake. They mostly never win but they do come together frequently to support one another in life, love, careers and all those big moments we all experience in life where we just need another perspective
Will Josh recover from an emotional slump? Will he discover what he wants to do in the future? Will he and the fellow All-Jays ever beat the Quizlamist Extremists? And will Josh find the Sunflower Girl in Germany, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Tokyo or France? Or maybe not at all?
I loved the date scene in the pizza parlour with the birthday offer which was very funny and mostly found Josh's adventures an enjoyable and light-hearted escape from less humorous and more tedious real life days.
Follow Josh and enjoy his mishaps by choosing to read this book rather than flipping a coin. It will bring some sunshine into these dark and dreary November days.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
*I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review of this book*
I am not usually somebody who picks up a romance book, having to be in the right mood to read one, but I loved the concept of this one and it sounded different from other romance books that I’ve read or that are out there. It wasn’t the romance aspect that drew me in, but the story concept and that I’m glad because you it wasn’t the romance part that kept me reading.
This book starts of with the most brutal of breakups, on what is supposed to be, and is planned out to be, the most romantic New Years Eve of Josh’s’ life. Things take an unexpected turn for him when he not only finds out that the woman he’s planned this spectacular engagement for, not only wants to break up with him, but has also been cheating on him. He’s got no job and has to move back in with his mum, as his job and home were link with Jade, his now ex girlfriend and a chunk of his savings spent on a wasted extravagant engagement and ring. He’s tired of making wrong decisions, so he’s come up with a New Years resolution, to let the coin make his decisions.
I did enjoy really this book. It was simply and it took a different turn to what I was expecting when I was reading, which was good, as I thought at one point it was going to do the friends to lovers thing, so it was nice seeing it go somewhere else. Although this is a romance read, I’d say it’s more a book of the character finding himself again after a horrible break up, rediscovering who he is and having the right friends to encourage him to do so. They pushed him to move on and be better, took the mick out of him about embarrassing situations and it felt like a real friendship, if a little too perfect on times.
This book is really sweet, maybe too sweet on times and you get your usually things you expect to find in a traditional romance book. You get your “miscommunication/misunderstanding” towards the end that leads to extra drama of will they/won’t they, which is one of the things I dislike in romance reads, even if it is understandable. But I took this book for what it was and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the writing, I liked the story and I even liked the majority of how the characters were all developed. There are some stories where you require great depth of character history, but this isn’t really one, not really requiring more than what was actually given.
I am not usually somebody who picks up a romance book, having to be in the right mood to read one, but I loved the concept of this one and it sounded different from other romance books that I’ve read or that are out there. It wasn’t the romance aspect that drew me in, but the story concept and that I’m glad because you it wasn’t the romance part that kept me reading.
This book starts of with the most brutal of breakups, on what is supposed to be, and is planned out to be, the most romantic New Years Eve of Josh’s’ life. Things take an unexpected turn for him when he not only finds out that the woman he’s planned this spectacular engagement for, not only wants to break up with him, but has also been cheating on him. He’s got no job and has to move back in with his mum, as his job and home were link with Jade, his now ex girlfriend and a chunk of his savings spent on a wasted extravagant engagement and ring. He’s tired of making wrong decisions, so he’s come up with a New Years resolution, to let the coin make his decisions.
I did enjoy really this book. It was simply and it took a different turn to what I was expecting when I was reading, which was good, as I thought at one point it was going to do the friends to lovers thing, so it was nice seeing it go somewhere else. Although this is a romance read, I’d say it’s more a book of the character finding himself again after a horrible break up, rediscovering who he is and having the right friends to encourage him to do so. They pushed him to move on and be better, took the mick out of him about embarrassing situations and it felt like a real friendship, if a little too perfect on times.
This book is really sweet, maybe too sweet on times and you get your usually things you expect to find in a traditional romance book. You get your “miscommunication/misunderstanding” towards the end that leads to extra drama of will they/won’t they, which is one of the things I dislike in romance reads, even if it is understandable. But I took this book for what it was and I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the writing, I liked the story and I even liked the majority of how the characters were all developed. There are some stories where you require great depth of character history, but this isn’t really one, not really requiring more than what was actually given.
I really didn’t like this book. I found it very boring, predictable and extremely dry. I ended up reading most of it on audio just to get through it faster. Definitely wouldn’t recommend unfortunately.
Josh has had a dreadful end to the year with his girlfriend refusing his proposal. No longer trusting his own decisions, he starts flipping a coin for every decision going forward believing that it can be no worse.
There were highs, lows and laughs all the way through.
I loved the tender moments between Josh and Pap, when they just took a few minutes away from everything.
There were highs, lows and laughs all the way through.
I loved the tender moments between Josh and Pap, when they just took a few minutes away from everything.
didn’t get the rom... or the com, and WHY were these characters SO unlikeable?!
Also there was no need to kill off Pap (the best character despite him being in only 2 scenes) he was THE ONLY REASON I CONTINUED TO READ - there are reasons other than your Grandfather’s funeral to fly home from abroad. Thank you.
(raging because I needed a fun light hearted read and this was just...bad)
Also there was no need to kill off Pap (the best character despite him being in only 2 scenes) he was THE ONLY REASON I CONTINUED TO READ - there are reasons other than your Grandfather’s funeral to fly home from abroad. Thank you.
(raging because I needed a fun light hearted read and this was just...bad)
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
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
This book was good! The MC really kept getting blow after blow. I really related to him though, that feeling of being unable to make the right decisions and getting so sick of it that you decide to just leave it up to chance and see if that makes a difference. Flipping a coin to make my decisions is something I've considered doing. However, I think the most notable part of the book for me was the humor. I wouldn't say it was black humor exactly, but the humor was more gray. I liked the humor though. The epilogue was cute but pretty unnecessary in my opinion.
funny
lighthearted
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