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A review by life_full_ofbooks
Twelve Hours in Manhattan by Maan Gabriel
4.0
3.75-
This is such a cute and quick read! On a Friday evening in a bar when Bianca is at her worst she meets Eric, who she soon realizes is her favorite K-Drama actor. They spend a whirlwind 12 hours together but then reality intervenes and they each go their separate ways, neither forgetting that magical night.
I honestly was expecting the entire book to take place during the 12 hours so I was pleasantly surprised to find the story is expanded from there. While I loved the chemistry between Bianca and Eric from the beginning, I found the overall story to be predictable. That is to be expected though since pretty much every romcom follows the same formula.
As much as I liked the characters they didn’t feel very believable to me. Bianca is 36, but I felt like I was reading about a 26 year old. It wasn’t just her, though, it was all of the characters. I felt like while the character development was there it took a little more time to see any real change.
On a whole I really enjoyed this. I love stories where a celebrity falls for a regular person, probably because of all the daydreaming of such instances when I was in high school and this book captured that story line beautifully. Thank you NetGalley and She Writes Press for an advanced copy of this book. This hits the shelves on April 18th.
This is such a cute and quick read! On a Friday evening in a bar when Bianca is at her worst she meets Eric, who she soon realizes is her favorite K-Drama actor. They spend a whirlwind 12 hours together but then reality intervenes and they each go their separate ways, neither forgetting that magical night.
I honestly was expecting the entire book to take place during the 12 hours so I was pleasantly surprised to find the story is expanded from there. While I loved the chemistry between Bianca and Eric from the beginning, I found the overall story to be predictable. That is to be expected though since pretty much every romcom follows the same formula.
As much as I liked the characters they didn’t feel very believable to me. Bianca is 36, but I felt like I was reading about a 26 year old. It wasn’t just her, though, it was all of the characters. I felt like while the character development was there it took a little more time to see any real change.
On a whole I really enjoyed this. I love stories where a celebrity falls for a regular person, probably because of all the daydreaming of such instances when I was in high school and this book captured that story line beautifully. Thank you NetGalley and She Writes Press for an advanced copy of this book. This hits the shelves on April 18th.