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The Setup by Lizzy Dent
3.0
The Set Up
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Genre: Romance
Format: Kindle eBook
Date Published: 6/7/22
Author: Lizzy Dent
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Pages: 384
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for providing an advanced digital copy of the book for me to read for my honest opinion.
Synopsis: The last place very average thirty-one-year-old Mara Williams thought she'd be is on a solo vacation impersonating her fortune teller when she finally meets the one. Josef, a gorgeous Austrian cellist, sits down for a reading and before she knows it, she's telling him his destiny will be sitting in a pub in the English seaside town of Broadgate on the last Friday of August. And her name is Mara. Meanwhile, the crumbling, formerly glamorous beachside pool club where she works is under threat and her eccentric colleagues enlist her help to save it, just as a handsome new housemate casts doubts on her ideas about "the one." Can Mara pull off the transformation of a lifetime? And by summer's end, will she know who is her destiny?
My Thoughts: The story is narrated from Mara, in her perspective. Speaking of Mara, I had a really hard time connecting with her, she was immature, and likely because she annoyed me. The characters are well developed, they had depth, some of the characters were likable, while others were not. I did like Ash, even as a supporting character. Mara was so focused on “the one” that she didn’t see the love right in front of her. I believe this book was more fiction than romance as the focus was on relationships, family and friendship, along with self-discovery with romance as a secondary factor. I really wanted to like this book as I do like this author, but the book just fell a little short for me. Overall, the book was good, just not something I would normally read.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: Romance
Format: Kindle eBook
Date Published: 6/7/22
Author: Lizzy Dent
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Pages: 384
Goodreads Rating: 3.75
Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for providing an advanced digital copy of the book for me to read for my honest opinion.
Synopsis: The last place very average thirty-one-year-old Mara Williams thought she'd be is on a solo vacation impersonating her fortune teller when she finally meets the one. Josef, a gorgeous Austrian cellist, sits down for a reading and before she knows it, she's telling him his destiny will be sitting in a pub in the English seaside town of Broadgate on the last Friday of August. And her name is Mara. Meanwhile, the crumbling, formerly glamorous beachside pool club where she works is under threat and her eccentric colleagues enlist her help to save it, just as a handsome new housemate casts doubts on her ideas about "the one." Can Mara pull off the transformation of a lifetime? And by summer's end, will she know who is her destiny?
My Thoughts: The story is narrated from Mara, in her perspective. Speaking of Mara, I had a really hard time connecting with her, she was immature, and likely because she annoyed me. The characters are well developed, they had depth, some of the characters were likable, while others were not. I did like Ash, even as a supporting character. Mara was so focused on “the one” that she didn’t see the love right in front of her. I believe this book was more fiction than romance as the focus was on relationships, family and friendship, along with self-discovery with romance as a secondary factor. I really wanted to like this book as I do like this author, but the book just fell a little short for me. Overall, the book was good, just not something I would normally read.