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In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae

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fanboyriot's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

♡ Winter Vibes

♡ Second Chance

♡ Hallmark Movie Vibes

📖𓋼𓍊 REVIEW 𓍊𓋼📖

Entertaining from the start, I loved the winter romance vibes. Going back home after publicly causing some work drama things get worse before they get better for Morgan. I really enjoyed this plot, it was so good. While second chance romance might not be my favorite this book writes it so well!

This had all the cozy elements of a Hallmark movie, but with an interesting plot and well written characters. It’s a classic; party planner heads back home only to try and save her home town’s local businesses and reconnect with old friends… and of course fall head over heels for the woman she left behind. Super wholesome and cute with hints of on page spice.

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (3/5)

Angst Level: 💧 (1/5)

POV: First Person

Release Date: 30, August 2022

Rep: Bisexual (Main Character and Love Interest), LGBTQIA+ (Main and Side Characters)

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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? Yes

4.5

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emotional lighthearted

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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milesandmiles's review against another edition

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Couldn't get past the main character having forgotten how to drive, dress or walk in winter weather despite having grown up in this small town.

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pey333's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

To start off with, I love seeing two Bi female leads in a relationship together - we could always use more represenation.

I think overall, this was a very cute modern Hallmark rom com with not so Hallmark spice levels.

The supporting characters and the settings helped bolster the story without getting in the way of the main action.

Everything about the romance did feel like it moved very fast, but personally I don't mind instant love in the right setting - this worked fine for me.

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emotional funny lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Your typical queer holiday romance, complete with big city transplant rediscovering love for her small mountain town as she works to save its charm. I wound up hating the last 2 hours after feeling so-so on the rest of the book. The drama explosion that happened was a little much. I also got tired of the narration "right where I needed her" during every intimate scene. It was cute once. Then it became redundant and irritating.

This isn’t a reflection of the book itself, but the audio narrator also pronounced latke as “lot-key,” which derailed me for several minutes.

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pvbobrien's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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sdupont's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted 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? Yes

3.75

This book is a cute sapphic small town Christmas romance. And while I can appreciate the cliches in a Hallmark Christmas movie I was hoping this book would have strayed a little off that path. I enjoyed the book overall but it fell a little flat and boring for me. I wasn’t as invested as the story as I had hoped. That being said I hope this leads to more sapphic holiday romances!

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hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

In the Event of Love

3.5/5 Stars

I struggled to rate this book – it had so many good moments, so many good characters, but unfortunately, a lot of the book fell super flat for me.

I love Christmas, I love Sapphic love stories, I love small town romances. So where did this one go wrong? We follow the first-person account of Morgan Ross, event planner extraordinaire with a promotion to run a new store location in New York on the line when she gets into an unfavorable encounter with a client when at a bar.

With the unwanted bad exposure, her boss sends her on a holiday until it all passes over. But Morgan can’t not work, she ends up with an email from a childhood friend asking her to run fundraising event to save her small hometown. With this opportunity to keep working while being on a mini-vacation, she takes it – not knowing the person offering the job is someone she abandoned in her hightail run out of town many years beforehand.

Wanting to do good, get her promotion, and rub it in her competitors face, she crashes back into Fern Falls – literally. When she’s back in town, she comes face to face with the one person she was scared to see, Rachel Ross, ex best friend, ex fling, ex love of her life.

As she builds her relationship back up with her old friends, the attraction to Rachel is back and undeniable. But with the unsolved trauma between them from their final fight, Morgan leaving, and Rachel taking over her family’s tree farm after the divorce of her parents, it leaves them having very often awkward moments.

Spoiler alert, their attraction to each other takes over and they’re high school kids all over again sneaking around and being too shy to discuss anything in fear of destroying their small alliance in taking down Morgan’s dad’s ex-girlfriend in the takeover of the town.

The whole premiss of this book is to plan a fundraising event to save the local businesses so they’re not bought out by corporate greed and destroy the town to become another ski resort that the locals can’t afford to live beside. But honestly, there’s maybe all of five pages that actually contain event planning, every plotline in the book related to the overall plot is pushed to the side to have multiple awkward encounters between Morgan and Rachel, none of which ever actually include any communication.

So much of this book could have been avoided if the characters had any actual sense when it comes to talking to each other. Morgan and Rachel’s high school argument? Could have been avoided if Rachel didn’t avoid giving any information to Morgan about what she was going through. Morgan leaving and abandoning all of her friends? Could have been avoided if she had reached out to them for help. Morgan working towards a New York Promotion? If she had told them, it would have completely avoided the third act breakup.

This book had so much potential – it definitely had the vibes to fit into a Sapphic Hallmark mold with a happy ending, the perfect winter aesthetic, hot drinks and winter camping leading to a steamy time in the tent – despite being surrounded by a thin fabric separating them from all of their friends and siblings. But it just fell super short because of the miscommunication that was just so frustrating to deal with. It felt like none of the characters were actually adults and it was just an extension of high school kids and their drama.

Overall, the story ended on a happily ever after. Everything was fixed, the villain was just misunderstood and everyone ended up where they needed to be - along with a leadup into the next book in the series.

The beginning was great, the ending was okay, the middle was just meh and very frustrating and predictable. But overall, I’ll still give it a 3.5/5 because of it being a fas

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