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Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams

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thisbookisbananas's review

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hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.75

Practice Makes Perfect is a continuation of the When in Rome series by Sarah Adams. TBH I feel that Sarah Adams has really hit her stride with this book. Annie is a very likable character who is struggling to be her authentic self. This is due to expectations placed in her by her family and friends. Will is dealing with repercussions of living a young life watching his parents’ train-wreck of a marriage. Even with these internal conflicts, the two MC find love with each other. Sarah Adams does a fantastic job acknowledging that closed door doesn’t mean chaste, delicate flowers. 
Also, the small town characters are lovable in a Stars Hollow kind of way. Love Harriet and Mabel!
I do think this could have benefited from about 10-20 pages being taken out which is the only reason why it’s not 5 stars. 
That being said, I can’t wait for James’ and Maddie’s story! 💜🧑‍🌾👩‍🍳
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abidavisf's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.0

I bawled my eyes out. I kicked my legs and giggled. I literally cackled. Practice Makes Perfect is everything I needed.

Annie and Will’s immediate chemistry was so gorgeous to read. The way they instantly understood each other’s humour and could read each other so perfectly was not only beautiful but genuinely entertaining. The “miscommunications” that always riddle romances were so short because the two of them knew each other so well, so you never felt like anything bad was actually going to stick. Each of their scenes, even early on in the story, were also incredibly sexy. Sarah Adams has that flirtatious banter DOWN.

Annie & Will both have such big hearts and have spent so long trying to ensure that everyone else is okay, so witnessing them both learning how to be honest and open to allow themselves to love not just each other but themselves was beautiful. Nobody deserves a HEA quite like them.

Practice Makes Perfect lost a star purely because of two things: one was that I spotted quite a few editorial mistakes that brought me out of the story for a moment, particularly at the beginning, and the other is that I would have liked to have gone into a bit more depth with some of the scenes. For example, on the night of Amelia’s bachelorette party, I think Will and Annie’s interactions were a little rushed from her saying
she’d stay
to him saying
they can go at any pace she wants
. I feel like there would have been a little more lead-up to that. I also think that, even keeping the book
closed door
, we could have seen more about how they came to each decision that night and their thought processes behind it.

Now we anxiously await Emily & Jack’s story before Maddie comes home and BETTER FALL IN LOVE WITH JAMES OR I’LL SUE.
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brittanylee0302's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted sad 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? No

5.0

This book was soooooo cute! I loved watching Annie & Will's relationship unfold. I thought Annie was the perfect quirky character & Will was such a bad ass but soft for her. The character growth in this book is top tier & I loved watching the tragedies of the two characters being fought against so they could love each other. I listened to the audio & was not immediately thrilled with the narrators but they definitely grew on me!
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laurenford's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5

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graceev's review against another edition

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

4.5

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wowitscass's review

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funny inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

4.5

I loved the romance in this book, as well as the general relationships (siblings, friends, etc). The characters had great depth, and the dialogue between them didn’t feel cringey. 
If you’re in the mood for a sweet, small town, bad boy(well man)/ good girl (woman) story, then you will eat this up babe. 
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frantically's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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

4.5

I loved this even more than the first one! Annie and Will have my heart

At first, I thought Annie was going to be the typical "oh I'm soo introverted, all I do is read romance, lonely in my room" (and I hate those characters!) but thankfully she was not. I admired and felt her desire to grow into the person she really wanted to be not the person everyone expected her to be.

Will <33333 Love this man. I'm usually also not one for the tortured MMC but he was okay 🤭 I love tattoos. Usually, we see the heroine changing her goals, changing what she ultimately wants out of life and relationships, and don't get me wrong, Annie does do that, too!, but here, Will is the one who really realises and "updates" his goals in relationships and it was so nice to see! I loved him embracing who he was 🥹

Overall, this is a story about growing into your own – but not having to grow all alone. And isn't that what we all want in the end?
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amayrelo's review

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funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

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anjasfairylights's review

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emotional funny 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

4.5

I actually had to laugh out loud multiple times while reading! Definitely enjoyed it, even though there wasn‘t any smut (but wouldn‘t hold that against it).
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folded_between_pages_of_books's review

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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