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Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
2.5
emotional funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The FMC may be a literal doctor that doesn’t know what a broom is or how to peel a potato, but can she grovel! 

This book gave me many feelings. Primarily anger. I detested the “friends” that the FMC hung around, they said awful things about anyone they felt was lesser than them. Truly detestable people. The FMC is a chronic people pleasure, which I get with her being in an abusive relationship with Neal for like- what? 7 years? But she was also just like painfully clueless. How do you go almost 40 years of your life without learning how to peel a POTATO???! A woman with a literal medical degree btw. 

The MMC, Daniel, was surprisingly my favorite character. I say surprisingly because I usually favor the FMC throughout a book lol. Daniel was honest, kind, warm, accepting, and welcoming. The FMC basically just hurt him over and over again and wanted to make decisions for him lmao. Self-sabotaging so hard and doing exactly what her ex did to her (we realize when Neal talks to her after therapy). I feel like the grovel shouldn’t been harder. She never once stood up for Daniel in front of ANYONE in her life except for once at the end. 

I think the book earned stars back in the last 80%. I’ll be honest, prior to that it was a solid 1.5 ⭐️ and .5 of that star was because of the baby goat, and the rest due to the man Daniel was. 

I don’t think Abby Jimenez is the author for me.