A review by lizanneyoung
When Life Gives You Lemons by Noor Sasha

2.0

 

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TROPES

🟡 (Forced) Marriage of Convenience

🟡 Childhood Friends to Enemies to Lovers

🟡 Dual POV

This book started really strong. It has an interesting premise, a fun way to get there, and characters that are great to be in the heads of. However, this book is entirely too long for what it offers. It is nearly five hundred pages and after about the 60% mark, very little substance is added. 

I read this book because the FMC Alina is epileptic, and I think it’s important representation to see in books. There are several sequences where Alina either has a seizure or is able to reset herself before one happens, and I think it adds to why she feels like she can’t accept love. As a character, I love reading from her perspective. She’s spunky and unapologetically herself. 

My biggest qualms with this story come from a lack of true purpose after the 60-65% mark. Do we get a third act conflict? Yes. However, it’s resolved literally a chapter later, leaving us with another 20% of the book for nothing to happen. Even the epilogue adds very little to what we know of the characters and how they grew over the course of the book. The character growth is the saving grace, even if it isn’t as well executed as it could be for the MMC Azeer.