A review by crispycritter
The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

5.0

“With all due respect to the agreement, fuck the agreement.” Paper rings. Feeeeeelings. I was so scared this book wasn’t gonna live up to the hype but it did. This entire book was just delicious, delicious angst and beautiful prose. 

What this book does incredibly well that a lot of other romances get wrong: showing characters going to therapy and working on themselves. A lot of times this comes up during a third-act conflict and we're told they are all better (or better enough to be in a relationship with the other character). I'm often left, as a reader, wondering if things have really fundamentally changed? I also wonder if these authors have ever been to therapy and know how it works. And feeling like the Happy For Now I'm being sold is barely solid. It's deeply unsatisfying. Here we get to learn about all of the BS that happened in Eli and Georgia and are given the whole book to really experience how much both characters have changed.