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romancingthereader 's review for:
Story of My Life
by Lucy Score
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Iโm not giving a Lucy Score book a 5-star review, and it feels so very wrong to do it.
๐ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Story of My Life by Lucy Score
๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐: Story Lake character series. Book 1.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐: E-book on Kindle. ๐ on KU.
๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฒ: Small town romance
๐ ๐ง๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐: Grumpy/sunshine, found family, RomCom, romance writer inception.
๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ป๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐: Hazel is burnt out of romance writing after a contentious divorce. One. Ight, after she finally gets inspiration from seeing a family of hot contractors restoring an old house, she decides to move from the city to the small town of Story Lake to help her write.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐: Let me first say, if this was my first Lucy Score book, Iโd probably have upped my rating to a 4.5. But alas, Iโm a Lucy Score connoisseur.
I got all of the classic good notes from this one. I got the zany small town. The grumpy/sunshine goodness. The MMC who literally canโt stop himself from loving the female lead. I got the relatability I always crave from her books. I laughed a ton.
But when I really, really sat down and thought about itโฆ two things. One, I really do think it was a little long. Usually I canโt find portions Iโd cut, but there were a few scenes in this one I could have done without. Second, is that this was a carbon copy of Things We Never Got Over.
And listen, I love TWNGO. I think itโs a transcendent book that is in my top five romance novels of all time. But Story of My Life had the exact same fish-out-of-water FMCโฆ the same grumpy MMCโฆ some nearly identical scenes and an absolutely identical final conflict.
I like where the series is going - and like Lucy Score does, she made me fall madly in love with the other characters who may get their own books. But this felt too familiar, and I definitely noticed.
๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด: 4/5 โญโญโญโญ
๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น: 3/5 ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ
๐ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ ๐๐ป๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Story of My Life by Lucy Score
๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐: Story Lake character series. Book 1.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐: E-book on Kindle. ๐ on KU.
๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฒ: Small town romance
๐ ๐ง๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐: Grumpy/sunshine, found family, RomCom, romance writer inception.
๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ป๐ผ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐: Hazel is burnt out of romance writing after a contentious divorce. One. Ight, after she finally gets inspiration from seeing a family of hot contractors restoring an old house, she decides to move from the city to the small town of Story Lake to help her write.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐: Let me first say, if this was my first Lucy Score book, Iโd probably have upped my rating to a 4.5. But alas, Iโm a Lucy Score connoisseur.
I got all of the classic good notes from this one. I got the zany small town. The grumpy/sunshine goodness. The MMC who literally canโt stop himself from loving the female lead. I got the relatability I always crave from her books. I laughed a ton.
But when I really, really sat down and thought about itโฆ two things. One, I really do think it was a little long. Usually I canโt find portions Iโd cut, but there were a few scenes in this one I could have done without. Second, is that this was a carbon copy of Things We Never Got Over.
And listen, I love TWNGO. I think itโs a transcendent book that is in my top five romance novels of all time. But Story of My Life had the exact same fish-out-of-water FMCโฆ the same grumpy MMCโฆ some nearly identical scenes and an absolutely identical final conflict.
I like where the series is going - and like Lucy Score does, she made me fall madly in love with the other characters who may get their own books. But this felt too familiar, and I definitely noticed.
๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด: 4/5 โญโญโญโญ
๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น: 3/5 ๐ถ๐ถ๐ถ