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Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

47 reviews

sytaylor's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring sad fast-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

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cc0906's review against another edition

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emotional funny 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

3.25

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booksnbrooches's review

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emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

A very, very emotional and wonderful romance. It easily could’ve turned into a copy of a fake dating story I have read countless times, but this was rich with character development and emotion. Wow.


To be completely honest, I am a little disappointed there weren’t more chili peppers. Only one true chili pepper scene which was very abbreviated.
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kshertz's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This is an excellent romcom. I definitely love Dr. Jacob Maddox. Dr. Brianna got on my nerves a little bit though. I really enjoyed the storyline of the kidney donor and that they wrote letters back-and-forth. Is very sweet. It’s not super light hearted one but it’s a great romance novel. Not smutty enough for meeee.
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thepoieszedlife'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? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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sami_leigh's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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

5.0

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
🌶️/5

‘I feel my heart twisting around her in a way that is completely out of my control and can never be undone.’

‘There’s a special peace in sleeping next to someone you love. When you slip into the dark holding them and wake up and they’re still there and you know that everything that matters is just opening your eyes away.’

✉️ First person Dual POV
✉️ Fake dating
✉️ Workplace romance
✉️ Slow burn 🔥
✉️ Well established secondary characters: Alexis & Daniel (Book 1), Benny, Jacob’s entire family.
✉️ MC Growth: trust, risking a relationship, childhood trauma, past relationship trauma, self worth.
✉️ Considerate representation of anxiety 
✉️ Epilogue
✉️ On my comfort reads list 😍

Available on Kindle, Audible, and paperback.

⚠️ Toxic relationship (past), infidelity (past relationship, not MC), pregnancy, miscarriage, grief, divorce, panic attack/disorder, mental illness, parental abandonment (past).
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emmas_bookshelf's review against another edition

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funny hopeful sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Summary: Briana and Jacob are ER doctors who have a rough first meeting. Although introverted & anxious Jacob is immediately taken with her, Briana takes a bit to realize Jacob is a good guy, but once she does, she’s all in. They start fake dating and that ends how all good fake dating ends: with one bed and real love. 😜 

Review: I loved many things about this book. Briana and Jacob have an easy chemistry and togetherness and the themes of promising to be harmless to someone really resonated with me. The book also had many truly laugh out loud moments (Jacob’s perfect interjection of catchphrases, iykyk). I appreciated how developed the families of the characters were and the inclusion of all the little daily joys (taking care of plants, bringing a loved one a meal) that make up a life. That was really lovely. And Jacob is donating a kidney to Briana’s brother. That’s so incredible. 🥹

Things that bothered me
: the two on-page sex scenes both take place when one or both characters are extremely upset about something and while it’s referenced that they’re having a bunch of joyous sex in between it seemed kind of gross to me that the explicit scenes were when… these people should not have been having sex. It is explicitly written that Briana is having sex without a condom or any form of birth control and I’m like - two doctors? Seriously? They BOTH know better. And it seems extremely out of character for both of them. Unhealthy practices bug me. Moving on from sex: the two of them competing for a job was a major part of the beginning and then that storyline never goes anywhere and is never mentioned again* and that struck me as very odd.


*I did read an advanced copy so the final version may differ.

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