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3.76 AVERAGE
3.76 AVERAGE
This was great! Georgiana’s honesty and personal growth was refreshing and delightfully REAL. There’s a chapter in the last 10% that could be 5-stars on its own (i almost started banging pots I was clapping so hard to give her a standing O. (so stick with it!) Great audible!
I have no idea how I found this gem. Highly recommend for chicklit (not romance) fans that prefer
Slightly more substance and character development
SUMMARY: 30yo Georgina is fired (unfairly) from her job. She goes to cry on her BFs shoulder and he’s banging someone else. Things can’t get worse, right? After an epic night of drinking her misery away she remembers she was doing a bar tending job, that her @$$ step father arranged.
God forbid she drops the ball. He would make her life hell.
To her surprise, the event and fellow employees are great and she’s thrilled when the owner offers her a job. She can’t believe she’ll finally have a job she likes... !! then the other owner walks in and it’s THE boy from Senior year (HS) who broke her heart, and he doesn’t appear to remember Georgina. (It was one of those romances that they liked each other but hadn’t really acted in it and it looked like it was finally happen but then something happened and they never talked again).
The rest of the book follows Georgina as she “gets her life together” and her interactions with Lucas, and learning about his life the last 12 years. The book also slowly leads up to what happened between them and when it all comes out
I have no idea how I found this gem. Highly recommend for chicklit (not romance) fans that prefer
Slightly more substance and character development
SUMMARY: 30yo Georgina is fired (unfairly) from her job. She goes to cry on her BFs shoulder and he’s banging someone else. Things can’t get worse, right? After an epic night of drinking her misery away she remembers she was doing a bar tending job, that her @$$ step father arranged.
God forbid she drops the ball. He would make her life hell.
To her surprise, the event and fellow employees are great and she’s thrilled when the owner offers her a job. She can’t believe she’ll finally have a job she likes... !! then the other owner walks in and it’s THE boy from Senior year (HS) who broke her heart, and he doesn’t appear to remember Georgina. (It was one of those romances that they liked each other but hadn’t really acted in it and it looked like it was finally happen but then something happened and they never talked again).
The rest of the book follows Georgina as she “gets her life together” and her interactions with Lucas, and learning about his life the last 12 years. The book also slowly leads up to what happened between them and when it all comes out
emotional
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Another amazing one from Mhairi that left me with the dopiest smile on my face (and even tears at times). It's definitely not a Rom Com like any of her other books, despite the blurb or the cover. This one follows Georgina on her journey of self forgiveness and healing, covering some pretty heavy topics like grief and sexual abuse. Mhairi writes with a perfect balance of Brit humor and sincerity all the while giving these weighty topics the awareness and honesty they're due. Georgina was such a relatable heroine. I loved all her quirky internal dialogues and some of her stories from her years as a waitress had me cackling aloud. Lucas was the perfect compliment to her and I was utterly charmed by the fact that he had a dog named Keith. This was such a good one, especially on audiobook, and I found myself listening to the last chapter twice, just because it was written so beautifully.
4.5/5 ⭐
4.5/5 ⭐
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
My review can be summed up with this quote from the book: "I laugh, but I'm heart-sore." Oh Gina ❤️
I was provided an ARC via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
I went in this book expecting some fluff seeing your first love later in life, chaos and funny situations happening all around and was that and so much more as well.
In this book we follow the life of 30 years old Georgina, as right in the beginning she's fired from her crappy job, serving disgusting food just to find her boyfriend in bed, ice cream covered, sleeping with someone else.
Things start to look up when during a one day job recommended by her brother-in-law where she gets an offer to go full-term, she sees her first love. Someone that meant so much to her and can't even remember her.
Then we follow Georgina's relationship with her family, Lucas, her (amazing and unique) best friends and her relationship with herself above all.
I have to say reading about Georgina's relationship with her family was so interesting because it was so complicated. At first, I was ready to brush off all of them as pretty toxic, and to some extent they were were, but there was much more than that. Reasons to certain actions, view and aspects of the characters changing the more you learned about them.
I adored the mentions of Georgina's relationship with her dad, that at first you immediately get attached to as the only one that supported and adored her fully. But even then you see her father isn't in any way perfect. And the complicated feelings of loving someone flawed, especially when their flaws are hurting others around you.
Speaking of Georgina's father, the deceptions of grief and seeing what she went through losing what was the most important person in her life, at such young age for her, and such an unexpected way for him really touched me. I really adored how she mentioned the help she got from a shrink and what she learned even if she isn't actively going.
This books also tackles on trauma, how it changes you, hurts you and affects you since it happens.
There's also mentions of abusive relationship, gaslighting and manipulation and all was handled in such good way, the character finding herself having lived that without noticing and we discover things as she does.
I cried a lot during the last 20% of it. It got heavy and very emotional and it's with still swollen eyes that I write this review.
That was my first book from Mhairi McFarlane but I'll be sure to pick up others as this was a fantastic read and definitely one of my favorites of the year.
I went in this book expecting some fluff seeing your first love later in life, chaos and funny situations happening all around and was that and so much more as well.
In this book we follow the life of 30 years old Georgina, as right in the beginning she's fired from her crappy job, serving disgusting food just to find her boyfriend in bed, ice cream covered, sleeping with someone else.
Things start to look up when during a one day job recommended by her brother-in-law where she gets an offer to go full-term, she sees her first love. Someone that meant so much to her and can't even remember her.
Then we follow Georgina's relationship with her family, Lucas, her (amazing and unique) best friends and her relationship with herself above all.
I have to say reading about Georgina's relationship with her family was so interesting because it was so complicated. At first, I was ready to brush off all of them as pretty toxic, and to some extent they were were, but there was much more than that. Reasons to certain actions, view and aspects of the characters changing the more you learned about them.
I adored the mentions of Georgina's relationship with her dad, that at first you immediately get attached to as the only one that supported and adored her fully. But even then you see her father isn't in any way perfect. And the complicated feelings of loving someone flawed, especially when their flaws are hurting others around you.
Speaking of Georgina's father, the deceptions of grief and seeing what she went through losing what was the most important person in her life, at such young age for her, and such an unexpected way for him really touched me. I really adored how she mentioned the help she got from a shrink and what she learned even if she isn't actively going.
This books also tackles on trauma, how it changes you, hurts you and affects you since it happens.
There's also mentions of abusive relationship, gaslighting and manipulation and all was handled in such good way, the character finding herself having lived that without noticing and we discover things as she does.
I cried a lot during the last 20% of it. It got heavy and very emotional and it's with still swollen eyes that I write this review.
That was my first book from Mhairi McFarlane but I'll be sure to pick up others as this was a fantastic read and definitely one of my favorites of the year.
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
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
beautiful perfect amazing, best love confession of all time and FINALLY someone remembers the -com in romcom. so funny and wonderful
<3 This will have a special place in my heart.
TW— sexual assault, cheating
TW— sexual assault, cheating
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes