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I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO READ THIS!! I absolutely freaking LOVED this book! We love Mack in this house. No Mack slander allowed. I loved the premise of this! I really enjoyed the book inside of a book thing. It's like two books in one but for the price of one :D. Gavin Scott is one of my top tier book boyfriends, and I will NOT change that statement for anyone. He honestly had some of the best character development I've seen in a long time, and that's saying something. I think Liv is an absolute bitch. I'm sorry, but she is. I love Thea. Thea's absolutely amazing. Don't get me started on Ava and Amelia! THEY WERE SO FLIPPING CUTE! 🥺 There's one quote from Courting the Countess that stood out to me a lot. “But it still wasn’t enough. Love isn’t enough.” It hurt reading it, but it stood out a lot. I honestly used to think this (three months ago), but I don't think that way anymore. I will gladly say that I wish this book had been a little longer. I would've liked an extended epilogue. I also enjoyed how you saw Gavin and Thea's relationship basically start from scratch. I really enjoyed that. Overall, I give this 5/5 stars, and I'll probably read this again at some point!

kelseyannereads's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.0

janagaton's review against another edition

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4.0

The audiobook was really good, despite the slightly annoying but i think necessary accent for the parts that are straight out of the cheesy romance novel. I loved the premise of this book being a professional baseball team reading romance to fix their marriages, as well as the fact that it was about fixing a relationship as opposed to starting a new one. I enjoyed the main characters, and the smutty scenes were extremely...vivid, let me tell you..lol. I also loved the "flaws" of the characters, and the sisterhood between Liv and Thea that was a pretty prominent segment to the story. This review is all over the place, but bottom line is I enjoyed this book, I laughed a ton, and I can't wait to read the sequel!

aitaanajmnz's review against another edition

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emotional slow-paced

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

2.75

rellimreads's review against another edition

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4.0

Audio. This was a fun twist on the typical romance novel. Told in alternating POV’s ~ the book opens with Gavin & Thea already separated. Gavin’s friends vow to help him “win her back” by initiating him into their book club, where they read romance novels to gain perspective on relationships and tips to “woo” their significant others.

The book is sort of 3 POV’s. It alternates between Gavin & Thea (narrated by Andrew Eiden) and then there are occasionally “excerpts” from the regency novel Gavin is reading (narrated by Maxwell Caulfield). I love Andrew Eiden as a narrator, but I kind of wish they’d had added a female narrator as well or opted to give some kind of intro that the POV was switching. It’s not like one chapter was Gavin and the next Thea ~ which is fine. But there were times where the POV changed and I didn’t realize I’m until the sentence or paragraph made it clear we’re now listening to someone else.

I struggled with Thea’s sister, Liv. I know stories need an antagonist and that she has baggage of her own ~ but sometimes she felt like too much “anti Gavin”, though that’s likely the point.

I liked the twins ~ but they didn’t come off as 2 year olds. More like 4 or 5. Which kept making the length of Gavin & Thea’s marriage feel off.

Overall it was an enjoyable listen and I’m looking forward to the series continuing.

aidi98's review against another edition

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emotional funny

4.5

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