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A review by creativelifeofliz
Take A Chance On Me by Beth Moran
3.0
I struggle quite a bit with how to rate this book.
Emma is a baker and has been single for a long time after having her childhood love get caught making out with her enemy 2 weeks before their planned nuptials. She also has 4 younger sisters that she is extremely close to.
Cooper has been in love with Emma's youngest sister, Bridget, since their university days. The problem is that she is now engaged to her childhood love.
Cooper and Bridget's boss, a professor of neuroscience, makes an extremely terrible bet with a psychology professor at a banquet, saying that he can manage to find 2 people to get married and fall in love so easily, just like the psychology professor does on her famous TV show, demonstrating the lack of rigor in psychology as a science. This, of course, becomes a problem for Cooper and Bridget to actually figure out. After getting tons of terrible applicants, they're very stressed. Because Emma has had many terrible dates, she decides to sign up for the matchmaking program. Cooper wants to get over Bridget, so he signs up too, making his answers align with Emma's so they get matched.
So they get married, which is, of course, a terrible idea. Emma tries really hard to fall in love with Cooper while dealing with a ton of family drama and Cooper tries to fall in love with Emma while forgetting about Bridget. Throughout this all, Emma's sisters are all dealing with their own drama and we see the struggles they're going through and how they try to support one another and figure things out.
All in all, this book isn't really a romance, despite how it's marketed. It's really a women's fiction novel, with the focus of the book being on Emma and her sisters figuring out their lives. I think I could have enjoyed it more if I went into the story expecting it to be about the Donovan sisters, not about Emma and Cooper falling in love (spoiler alert: they don't). The marketing just really through off how I thought this story was going to go and made me question a lot of the choices being made throughout.
Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for providing an advanced copy of this book. All opinions are my own.
Emma is a baker and has been single for a long time after having her childhood love get caught making out with her enemy 2 weeks before their planned nuptials. She also has 4 younger sisters that she is extremely close to.
Cooper has been in love with Emma's youngest sister, Bridget, since their university days. The problem is that she is now engaged to her childhood love.
Cooper and Bridget's boss, a professor of neuroscience, makes an extremely terrible bet with a psychology professor at a banquet, saying that he can manage to find 2 people to get married and fall in love so easily, just like the psychology professor does on her famous TV show, demonstrating the lack of rigor in psychology as a science. This, of course, becomes a problem for Cooper and Bridget to actually figure out. After getting tons of terrible applicants, they're very stressed. Because Emma has had many terrible dates, she decides to sign up for the matchmaking program. Cooper wants to get over Bridget, so he signs up too, making his answers align with Emma's so they get matched.
So they get married, which is, of course, a terrible idea. Emma tries really hard to fall in love with Cooper while dealing with a ton of family drama and Cooper tries to fall in love with Emma while forgetting about Bridget. Throughout this all, Emma's sisters are all dealing with their own drama and we see the struggles they're going through and how they try to support one another and figure things out.
All in all, this book isn't really a romance, despite how it's marketed. It's really a women's fiction novel, with the focus of the book being on Emma and her sisters figuring out their lives. I think I could have enjoyed it more if I went into the story expecting it to be about the Donovan sisters, not about Emma and Cooper falling in love (spoiler alert: they don't). The marketing just really through off how I thought this story was going to go and made me question a lot of the choices being made throughout.
Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for providing an advanced copy of this book. All opinions are my own.