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A review by jamietherebelliousreader
Something in the Wine by Jae
4.0
4 stars. This was enjoyable enough, but I am not a huge fan of toaster oven romances. I’ve read some that were done well and then there are others where I just find myself annoyed more than anything else. This book was borderline of both things but leaned towards the latter a lot of the time.
I thought the beginning half of this book was better than the second half. Though the reason that Annie and Drew started fake dating didn’t really hold up it was fine. This is a slowburn romance as Annie fights and really struggles with having feelings for a woman for the first time. It felt realistic but it was also the bane of my entire existence. I wanted to shake Annie so bad a lot of the time. She takes entirely too long to work through her issues and even in the end I felt she would’ve benefitted greatly by seeing a therapist. She holds the relationship up and I felt bad for Drew honestly. Drew was such an amazing character and she deserved all of the love and happiness in the world. I empathized with Annie and I liked her at certain points but she wasn’t my favorite. Their chemistry was pretty good though and the romance (when Annie would get it together) was cute.
The side characters were incredibly one dimensional and I hated Annie’s older brother, Jake. What an insufferable ass he was.
The writing is great, there was good banter, the pacing was good if a bit dry towards the middle, and I liked the short story Seduction for Beginners. I feel like I would enjoy this one more upon a re-read.
I thought the beginning half of this book was better than the second half. Though the reason that Annie and Drew started fake dating didn’t really hold up it was fine. This is a slowburn romance as Annie fights and really struggles with having feelings for a woman for the first time. It felt realistic but it was also the bane of my entire existence. I wanted to shake Annie so bad a lot of the time. She takes entirely too long to work through her issues and even in the end I felt she would’ve benefitted greatly by seeing a therapist. She holds the relationship up and I felt bad for Drew honestly. Drew was such an amazing character and she deserved all of the love and happiness in the world. I empathized with Annie and I liked her at certain points but she wasn’t my favorite. Their chemistry was pretty good though and the romance (when Annie would get it together) was cute.
The side characters were incredibly one dimensional and I hated Annie’s older brother, Jake. What an insufferable ass he was.
The writing is great, there was good banter, the pacing was good if a bit dry towards the middle, and I liked the short story Seduction for Beginners. I feel like I would enjoy this one more upon a re-read.