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A review by toiletteregina
Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman
4.5
"It's funny, isn't it, how sometimes the people who've known you the longest are the ones who know you the least?"
While I didn't enjoy this as much as Nina Hill, I still had a great time reading this and had a lot of fun spending time with its characters – to the point that I even really missed them once I finished the book.
Initially, I had concluded that Adult Assembly Required didn't have as much heart as Nina Hill, but in the end, I came to realize that it had a different kind of heart of its own. It was charming in the same way Nina Hill was, yet it still carried a charm of its own. It also definitely leaned more into romance this time around, all while still tackling significant mental health issues (PTSD and anxiety to name a few).
Some of my favorite parts of the book were the times whenBob would evidently simp and pine over Laura HEHEHE I also liked that they developed a friendship first, as I'm all for the friends-to-lovers trope.
The primary reason I didn't give this a full 5 stars is because some parts of the writing felt a little off-putting to me – a little odd, considering I praised Nina Hill's quirky writing style. Particularly, I remember the author using the word "bitchily" as an adverb (just once, iirc), and that just felt a bit juvenile to me. It didn't give off the same quirkiness that elevated Nina's character in Nina Hill.
Overall though, this was an enjoyable reading experience, and I'd absolutely LOVE for more books to come out in this universe. It's been such a joy immersing myself in the lives of the Nina Hill characters :D
While I didn't enjoy this as much as Nina Hill, I still had a great time reading this and had a lot of fun spending time with its characters – to the point that I even really missed them once I finished the book.
Initially, I had concluded that Adult Assembly Required didn't have as much heart as Nina Hill, but in the end, I came to realize that it had a different kind of heart of its own. It was charming in the same way Nina Hill was, yet it still carried a charm of its own. It also definitely leaned more into romance this time around, all while still tackling significant mental health issues (PTSD and anxiety to name a few).
Some of my favorite parts of the book were the times when
The primary reason I didn't give this a full 5 stars is because some parts of the writing felt a little off-putting to me – a little odd, considering I praised Nina Hill's quirky writing style. Particularly, I remember the author using the word "bitchily" as an adverb (just once, iirc), and that just felt a bit juvenile to me. It didn't give off the same quirkiness that elevated Nina's character in Nina Hill.
Overall though, this was an enjoyable reading experience, and I'd absolutely LOVE for more books to come out in this universe. It's been such a joy immersing myself in the lives of the Nina Hill characters :D