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A review by rosebeccs
Something Borrowed by Yolande Kleinn
2.0
This felt more like a lovely premise for a book rather than the complete thing. It was so short that it gave me no time to get to know the characters which meant that I had no investment in their fake relationship dynamic. It's such a shame because I am the ultimate sucker for this trope and really wanted to read a book that had it at the centre.
Both of the characters were sweet and fun, and I could tell this had such potential to be something great. If it were even a couple of hundred pages, it would have given them more room to be multi-dimensional people. There's also a great supporting cast of characters that had a lot of potential. The writing style and dialogue were also things I was totally on board with.
It really is set up to be my perfect kind of thing, I can still feel myself rooting so hard for it. If I'm frustrated, it's because there's so much good here but it just never quite made the leap from short, almost one-shot fanfiction to fully developed story.
Both of the characters were sweet and fun, and I could tell this had such potential to be something great. If it were even a couple of hundred pages, it would have given them more room to be multi-dimensional people. There's also a great supporting cast of characters that had a lot of potential. The writing style and dialogue were also things I was totally on board with.
It really is set up to be my perfect kind of thing, I can still feel myself rooting so hard for it. If I'm frustrated, it's because there's so much good here but it just never quite made the leap from short, almost one-shot fanfiction to fully developed story.