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A review by analenegrace
Like Cats & Dogs by Lizzie Shane
emotional
funny
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc of this book.
While I didn't read the rest of the Pine Hollow series first, this book was still fun and sweet, and I can see how it would be the perfect wrap-up to someone's beloved small-town romance series. Mac and Magda are deeply passionate and flawed people who perhaps met each other too early in life. I appreciated that this book was conscious of how the age gap impacted them 14 years before, but it was now a normal gap between them. As they got to know each other again, they both realized that they had blown a very simple thing out of proportion.
As a small-town romance, I liked that this one pulled the town rivals out of the small town so they could see what they had been missing for over a decade.
The cooking show plot is always fun to throw characters into, and I liked that this one had background show drama outside of our MCs as they dealt with a new showrunner who was changing the show's vision. Our side characters played into that, and I thought while they weren't super fleshed out, they were quite fun and useful for the plot.
There was just some simplistic writing throughout that I thought should have been better for the sixth book in a traditionally published series. I'm unsure if I'll read the rest of the series, but it sounds cute!
While I didn't read the rest of the Pine Hollow series first, this book was still fun and sweet, and I can see how it would be the perfect wrap-up to someone's beloved small-town romance series. Mac and Magda are deeply passionate and flawed people who perhaps met each other too early in life. I appreciated that this book was conscious of how the age gap impacted them 14 years before, but it was now a normal gap between them. As they got to know each other again, they both realized that they had blown a very simple thing out of proportion.
As a small-town romance, I liked that this one pulled the town rivals out of the small town so they could see what they had been missing for over a decade.
The cooking show plot is always fun to throw characters into, and I liked that this one had background show drama outside of our MCs as they dealt with a new showrunner who was changing the show's vision. Our side characters played into that, and I thought while they weren't super fleshed out, they were quite fun and useful for the plot.
There was just some simplistic writing throughout that I thought should have been better for the sixth book in a traditionally published series. I'm unsure if I'll read the rest of the series, but it sounds cute!