A review by sweetsxrrxw
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

i was looking forward to pick this book up for a while, since one of my booktwt mutuals recommended it to me and said she loved it. i think it is such a shame that i got into a reading slump so bad that it took me about a month to finish it, because i genuinely liked it.

i have to admit i'm not a huge fan of the fake dating trope because, usually, it involves miscommunication and that's a trope that i actually dislike. i do understand that the book would have been about 100 pages shorter without it, since miscommunication was the main issue of the story. but i just hate that it took over more than half of the book
and then there was the third breakup act... i hate ittt.


however i did like this book better than the first one. 'yours truly' had everything that i missed in 'part of your world' and that is a slow(er) burn romance and more wholesome, soft, not so-spicy moments between the main couple. i totally loved their "being harmless to each other" dynamic, their exchange of letters, how they slowly fell in love before even jumping to physical touch and i loved how the author still kept the theme of having two total (and partly different) strangers get to dive in each other's worlds and create one of their own.

of course, i also loved the main characters. i appreciate how this time the author tried to make the mmc more "relatable" by giving him anxiety. it was still hard for me to find him real because he was still a bit too perfect but i get it, since, at the end of the day, he is just a figment of a romance author's imagination. 
i liked and laughed at briana's interventions on the first book so it was nice to get to know her more in depth and have a closer look at her dealing with her brother and her divorce. i understand her story was supposed to be more of a rom-com so that's why the author didn't delve further into her background and trauma. even so, she was still a very relatable character
so i am so glad she got her happy ending with a man who, despite his anxiety, loves her so much that he is willing to go out of his comfort zone and show up for her every time.


this second book put the bar a bit higher for the second one, so i hope it can exceed my expectations!
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