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A review by bookish_kristina
A Five-Letter Word for Love by Amy James
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
3.5
A cute and light romance
3.5 rounded up because overall this was cute.
Don’t overthink this one and shut your brain down for awhile. This is a really cute and earnest romance with a very optimistic, almost starry eyed heroine, who made some dumb choices that were hard for me to understand.
But other than that, this was your traditional small town grumpy sunshine book and it was very light hearted and funny. The concept was cute (yes I’ve said cute four times now, that’s just what this was) and everything was really relatable but I did have some annoyances with the authorial choices; notes below.
Number of Anne of green gables references:
12. Why? Just because the book is set in PEI? Seemed trite and unnecessary.
To keep this book authentically Canadian can she not have applied for an internship at the AGO or the ROM and applied for her masters at the university of Toronto?
I was so happy for a Canadian story in a Canadian setting and then her dreams took her to fucking New York City like every other stupid small town romcom. Lean into the Canadian authors, New York isn’t the only city where dreams are made. I’d actually venture to say most Canadians wouldn’t want to seek their dreams south of the border because yikes, why?
Book four in my reading Canadian authors for 2025.
3.5 rounded up because overall this was cute.
Don’t overthink this one and shut your brain down for awhile. This is a really cute and earnest romance with a very optimistic, almost starry eyed heroine, who made some dumb choices that were hard for me to understand.
But other than that, this was your traditional small town grumpy sunshine book and it was very light hearted and funny. The concept was cute (yes I’ve said cute four times now, that’s just what this was) and everything was really relatable but I did have some annoyances with the authorial choices; notes below.
Number of Anne of green gables references:
12. Why? Just because the book is set in PEI? Seemed trite and unnecessary.
To keep this book authentically Canadian can she not have applied for an internship at the AGO or the ROM and applied for her masters at the university of Toronto?
I was so happy for a Canadian story in a Canadian setting and then her dreams took her to fucking New York City like every other stupid small town romcom. Lean into the Canadian authors, New York isn’t the only city where dreams are made. I’d actually venture to say most Canadians wouldn’t want to seek their dreams south of the border because yikes, why?
Book four in my reading Canadian authors for 2025.