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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
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
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-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:
No
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
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
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
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:
Complicated
The book was off to a slow start and I struggled to get into it.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
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:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Emotional abuse
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Rating: 3/5 ⭐⭐⭐ (🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ 4/5 spice)
Started: 05-14-2025
Finished: 05-19-2025
Synopsis: Jamie (FMC) has an insanely toxic mother who severely lacks an understanding of boundaries and how to respect them. Her mother wants Jamie to bring one of her three (imaginary) fake boyfriends as her date to her brother Frankie’s engagement party. Jamie’s best friend Millie offers up her three brothers as Jamie’s fake boyfriends for the week, but Millie knows that none of her brother’s want this to be fake.
Brock is Jamie’s boss at the garage that she works at and has had a thing for Jamie for years. Hunter and Hayden are twins (this is CONSTANTLY mentioned and brought up, even by the twins themselves because they call the other “my twin” all the time in their thoughts). They are carpenters by trade and models on the side (this is also brought up quite a bit). All three brothers have their work cut out for them getting Jamie to bring down her walls and let them in.
I have very conflicted feelings about this book. First off, I think this was potentially a big part of me not liking this book as much as I thought I would, is that the relationship between Jamie the FMC and her mother is EXTREMELY toxic and it very much reminded me of how my mother used to be. Now my mother went through therapy and received help and we have over time begun to rebuild a relationship, but to hear the way Marjorie, Jamie’s mom, would talk to and about her was kind of traumatic for me. My second big problem is that the writing is super cringey sometimes. I get it, it’s a romance book and sometimes the writing is cringey but I just could not handle it sometimes.
“That I loved her. I felt that in a rush, my eyes locking with hers as it all came gushing out. The c*m erupting from my b*alls was just a physical manifestation of the way I felt about her.”
“Her cry was like the seagulls in the evening, her sighs like the sea. She was as wild as the sea and as all consuming.”
But despite the issues that I had with this book I was always thinking about it and wanted to go back to reading it, but could only read it for short periods of time before either the cringe or the toxic relationship got to be too much and I had to stop for a bit. Would I recommend this book to other people? Yes, but would definitely preface with the above mentioned issues.
K!nks/tropes:
- Brothers best friend
- Fake dating
- Poly relationship
emotional
tense
medium-paced
This book was like 200 pages too long. It really dragged out the crap with her family and her struggle to finally realize how she felt with the guys. In the middle it was just a ton of ‘sex-freak out that they love me-sex’ on repeat.. and not in a good way. Then it rushed the ‘fix’ in the end. Although I did love the ending and how it all wrapped up, but it could have come like 200 pages earlier and still done all the same stuff.
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
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:
Complicated
BORROWING MY BESTIE’S BROTHERS BY SAM HALL
Rom-Com, contemporary, why-choose.
I’ve slowly been getting back my love for reading and this book has given me all the feel good vibes I’ve been wanting. I hadn’t heard anything about it before seeing an ad and deciding that it looks worth a read with its cute illustrated cover.
We jump straight into Jaime’s dilemma - the carefully constructed lie of dating not one but 3 men is all going crashing down as her mother declares she is coming to town and wants to meet them all to help her pick a suitable match. Swooping in to rescue the day is Jaime’s best friend Millie, kindly offering her 3 brothers as Jaime’s fake dates. Relieved Jaime feels the pressure is slightly lessened not knowing that to each of the guys there is nothing fake about the dates.
Jaime and the guys all go through great character building and development throughout the book and reading how that all adapt and overcome to ensure everyone is happy really gets those feel-good vibes going. There is plenty of spice nice and quick into the start of the relationships with each of the guys ticking off those booktok girlie favourite attributes and character quirks.
This book has a Lily Gold feel to it which I loved. I enjoyed it so much I’m about to jump straight into Set Me On Fire - Millie’s spin off book.