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A review by angieinbooks
Holly & Ivy by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod
3.0
3.5
This is a cute opposites-attract story about a socially awkward code developer (Holly) who struck it rich after creating a popular dating app and a social worker (Ivy) with absolutely no money to her name, in part because she give the shirt off her own back if it would help someone else.
I liked a lot about this novel and really enjoyed the dynamic between the two leads. It’s a cute romance and I was rooting for them the whole way. But a few things didn’t work for me:
- Too much time was spent on Ivy’s friends, Scarlett and Betty. I think they’re supposed to provide humor? The problem is I didn’t find them funny.
- For a “holiday romance” that takes place between October and December, I didn’t feel like the holidays played a significant enough role. Thanksgiving probably gets the most time. Halloween isn’t mentioned. But given the cover, I expected Christmas to play a bigger role and it really doesn’t. This story could have been set between January and March and told the same exact story. I saved it for the week of Christmas hoping for a Christmasy story and I didn’t get that here.
This is a cute opposites-attract story about a socially awkward code developer (Holly) who struck it rich after creating a popular dating app and a social worker (Ivy) with absolutely no money to her name, in part because she give the shirt off her own back if it would help someone else.
I liked a lot about this novel and really enjoyed the dynamic between the two leads. It’s a cute romance and I was rooting for them the whole way. But a few things didn’t work for me:
- Too much time was spent on Ivy’s friends, Scarlett and Betty. I think they’re supposed to provide humor? The problem is I didn’t find them funny.
- For a “holiday romance” that takes place between October and December, I didn’t feel like the holidays played a significant enough role. Thanksgiving probably gets the most time. Halloween isn’t mentioned. But given the cover, I expected Christmas to play a bigger role and it really doesn’t. This story could have been set between January and March and told the same exact story. I saved it for the week of Christmas hoping for a Christmasy story and I didn’t get that here.