dmackreads 's review for:

Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Complicated

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This is actually my first “age gap” trope (other than fantasy which really doesn’t count) and it made me sooo uncomfy. Morally, in real life, I wouldn’t agree with this. At least not as far as anything more than like a fling but fictionally, I get it and I’m not mad about it lol. I don’t love the ex boyfriend’s dad thing, idk maybe I need to loosen up a little 🫤 but even with all those feelings I still loved the book and was totally rooting for Jordan and Pike. I was connected right away and it actually helped me with my current slow reading phase.