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You're So Vine by Catherine Robertson
2.5
please note that the trigger warnings and topes/themes may contain spoilers
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
HEA: yes
POV: dual 1st person POV
spice: several open-door spicy scenes
TWs: mental health 9anxiety, PTSD), cheating (attempted, past), terminal illness (cancer), OW drama
standalone: book 2 in the Flora Valley series
final thoughts: once again there was so much about this book that was promising and ultimately it wasn’t for me and it all comes down to the MMC. AGAIN, we have the MMC calling another woman gorgeous, beautiful, pretty, “the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen in my life” and telling that to the FMC!!! I was honestly so turned off by him and his relationship with this woman that’s he’s so disgustingly infatuated with. I cannot and will never understand the obsession with the best friend. This had so much promise since I love a giant, silent, handyman mountain man who is ex-army, but I really couldn’t get over the friendship between him and his friend’s mother and he didn’t do nearly enough groveling when he kept messing up.
I like this writer’s style of writing but ultimately, I don’t like the MMCs who aren’t entirely dedicated to their chosen women after they get together. Everything moved way too fast (their relationship, his “recovery”, the relationships with additional characters) and felt too forced but has good bones for a good story.
I continued this series for Cam and Chiara and stayed for Chiara and Ava. I was pleasantly surprised with how much I liked Ava, but she needed to demand more groveling and she deserved better from everyone in this book.
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read this book if you love
😬 angst
🏝️ forced proximity (living together)
💘 instalove
🔀 opposites attract
🏡 small town
🫡 big MMC
🤫 hidden secrets
👨🚒 men in uniform (past)
👨👩👧👦 found family
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
HEA: yes
POV: dual 1st person POV
spice: several open-door spicy scenes
TWs: mental health 9anxiety, PTSD), cheating (attempted, past), terminal illness (cancer), OW drama
standalone: book 2 in the Flora Valley series
final thoughts: once again there was so much about this book that was promising and ultimately it wasn’t for me and it all comes down to the MMC. AGAIN, we have the MMC calling another woman gorgeous, beautiful, pretty, “the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen in my life” and telling that to the FMC!!! I was honestly so turned off by him and his relationship with this woman that’s he’s so disgustingly infatuated with. I cannot and will never understand the obsession with the best friend. This had so much promise since I love a giant, silent, handyman mountain man who is ex-army, but I really couldn’t get over the friendship between him and his friend’s mother and he didn’t do nearly enough groveling when he kept messing up.
I like this writer’s style of writing but ultimately, I don’t like the MMCs who aren’t entirely dedicated to their chosen women after they get together. Everything moved way too fast (their relationship, his “recovery”, the relationships with additional characters) and felt too forced but has good bones for a good story.
I continued this series for Cam and Chiara and stayed for Chiara and Ava. I was pleasantly surprised with how much I liked Ava, but she needed to demand more groveling and she deserved better from everyone in this book.
.
read this book if you love
😬 angst
🏝️ forced proximity (living together)
💘 instalove
🔀 opposites attract
🏡 small town
🫡 big MMC
🤫 hidden secrets
👨🚒 men in uniform (past)
👨👩👧👦 found family