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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
This book was entertaining and made me laugh. I’m just not confident I can give it an honest star rating as I was not emotionally or mentally capable of truly engaging with it while I read it during the post 2024 American reelection.
If you’re looking for a non traditional romance that’s not a romance staring believable middle aged characters then I recommend you give this a try. I did appreciate that it wasn’t filled with the usual romcom tropes.
If you’re looking for a non traditional romance that’s not a romance staring believable middle aged characters then I recommend you give this a try. I did appreciate that it wasn’t filled with the usual romcom tropes.
This was a fun read. It kept me entertained and engaged. The ending felt flat for me.
Me, a single woman careening toward forty (*Meg Ryan voice* AND I’M GONNA BE FORTY!) reading this like ah. Linda Holmes came for my NECK. I see.
3.5 stars. I didn't like this one nearly as much as Evvie Drake, but I did enjoy the dive into relationships and what commitment means. I didn't quite connect with the characters, and I wasn't swept up in the romance of it all (but I think that is the point).
Like many reviewers, I loved Evvie Drake Starts Over, but didn't like this one as much. I still found it an engaging, quick read, but it fell a bit flat for me. I did appreciate some of the same themes like chosen family, late 30s-40s women, and people having the relationships that work for them instead of what they've always been told relationships should be like.
The pacing was a bit weird for me, in that there is a big resolution about 2/3 of the way in, when
Around the same point, there was another weirdness for me. A couple lines made me think it might be going in the direction of keeping the duck-deception going by Laurie getting a fake back from Matt: she mentions some feature of it is a little cruder than she recalled, and a few pages later Nick floats the idea that it could be a fake. But this is never revisited!
When Laurie confronts Matt and he acts completely clueless, I thought there might be some twist or other layer. But it just seems like a badly-written, unbelievable plot moment.
The pacing was a bit weird for me, in that there is a big resolution about 2/3 of the way in, when
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Laurie gets the duck back. True, the story has further to go, since Laurie later learns that Dot, not Carl, made the duck, but I sort of stopped caring after she got it back. I mean, what fun is it waiting for a resolution to a question you didn't really even know was at issue?Around the same point, there was another weirdness for me. A couple lines made me think it might be going in the direction of keeping the duck-deception going by Laurie getting a fake back from Matt: she mentions some feature of it is a little cruder than she recalled, and a few pages later Nick floats the idea that it could be a fake. But this is never revisited!
When Laurie confronts Matt and he acts completely clueless, I thought there might be some twist or other layer. But it just seems like a badly-written, unbelievable plot moment.
3.5 stars. Much like Linda Holmes last book I read, this one also took me awhile to get through. I’m glad I read the book but I don’t know why the book didn’t hook me from the start.