Reviews - Borrowing My Bestie's Brothers

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Borrowing My Bestie's Brothers

It started to feel like it was dragging on and I couldn't see how this would work out in the end. They're brothers. I would have probably enjoyed it more if it wasn't a "why choose", cause I had several reasons lol.

samanthareadssmut's review against another edition

1.0

Thank the book gods I’m finally done with this book. FMC had no personality or character. The whole story was just blah.

abicaro17's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted sad 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

I think in general this was a good book. Jamie is a mechanic who's overbearing mother cause her to make up boyfriends to get her off her back. Brock, Hunter, and Hayden are her best friends brothers and they volunteer to date her. They don't want it to be fake though. This book mainly focuses on the relationship between the four main characters but it does delve into the relationship between Jamie and her mother and family as well. I think my problems with this book stem from the childhood friends to lovers thing. I don't believe its real and it grosses me out. If they met when Jamie was older I probably would have been fine but, they didn't.

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girlwithhearteyes's review against another edition

DNF @ 45%

I love this type of story, where the FMC thinks her best friend’s hot brother is out of her league, except he’s been secretly pining all along. It’s a typical teen romcom plotline, except here with 3x brothers because it’s a why choose/reverse harem.

I was actually really enjoying the book (despite some flaws that I could overlook because realism is optional in a teen romcom plot), but decided to DNF because I was *too* invested in Jamie ended up with one of the brothers (the older Daddy/boss one). Also the way the characters were behaving, it was hard to imaging them all being in a settled poly relationship.

YMMV!

munocr's review against another edition

4.0

emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

The family dynamic for a FMC is a tough one, but sadly one many girl can relate to. I appreciate the fact that not all the family had the same perspective and that her younger brother stood up for her eventually. Also it was fun to read a transition from fighting to win the girl to working together. So many why choose have instant cohesion and it was fun to see it take some working out.

Can’t wait to see where Millie ends up…..

bookishspy's review against another edition

3.0

funny hopeful lighthearted slow-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

Good, but needed some tweaking

Firstly, Jamie made me want to smack my head against a wall. Every time anything good happened with these men, she just panicked and ran, or slept with them again? It was really annoying

But the men themselves were adorable! Except I feel poor Hunter was really put to the side. He barely had any part in the "fake dating" and the relationship as a whole

As for the "fake dating" like... it wasn't. They all said it wasn't, and Jamie was like "no but it's fake" 🙄 uhhuh sure. Tbh I would've loved more fake dating in this

And the editing needed serious work. There were times I just skipped whole paragraphs because it just added nothing to the story or reiterated something that had already been said a bunch of times. Or it just did not read right.

Lastly, the spice. There were some icks. Stop wringing out balls for one, thats weird and sounds painful. And two, I get that Aussies say the C-word. I'm Aussie, I get it. But calling her anatomy that every single time was pretty annoying, not gonna lie. But it was hot otherwise

Overall, it had its cute and funny moments despite all that, and I love the poly/defacto/no kids rep! I need more of that in my reads

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