A review by readingpenguin
The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Cynical loner Saoirse and hopeless romantic Ruby agree to a series of fun romcom worthy dates with no strings attached, but soon find that you can't have a falling in love montage without falling in love.

Tropes and themes include:

Bad break up/Burned by love
Coming of age
Difficult Home life
Cynic and Romantic
Grand Gesture and Grovel

First a warning that while very romantic, this isn't a capital R capital N Romance Novel with an HEA or even HFN ending. It's more of a coming of age story for Saoirse, and falling in love is a part of it.  Saoirse's mother suffers from dementia and lives in a care home. Her father is with a new woman. University is fast approaching. Saoirse has complicated feelings about all of this, and we follow her as she works through them with a back drop of fun outings and romance.

This book will work for you if you like a older YA, younger NA slice-of-life story. If you're looking for light and fluffy book, but grounded in the real world and dealing with some serious topics.
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