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From the Jump
by Lacie Waldon
Thank you to Putnam and NetGalley for this eARC!
Liv Bakersfield has lived her life under the mask of a yes woman, trying to make herself as palatable as possible for the people around her. But after a run-in with college friend Lucas Deiss forces her to rethink this tactic, she starts to realize saying "no" feels pretty damn good. Sure it lands her with six weeks of unpaid leave from work, but now it means she can join her friends on the annual trip abroad. Once her mask starts to slip, so does Deiss's and Liv will have to decide if keeping hers in place is worth losing the people she loves most.
The start on this one was a little slow for me and I think the flashbacks to the friend group in college could have been a little more dynamic and shown more of Deiss and Liv's interactions, specifically how they could have been falling for each other and not realized it. Waldon's imagery was impeccable -- I felt like I was in Deiss's shop and apartment, but it felt like some subplot lines were necessarily left dangling until the final pages. I also would have liked to have seen Liv interact more with her mom, at the very least deciding to keep things the same between them as opposed to not addressing it at all.
Overall, it was a low-stakes romance that was a perfectly enjoyable place to spend time!
Liv Bakersfield has lived her life under the mask of a yes woman, trying to make herself as palatable as possible for the people around her. But after a run-in with college friend Lucas Deiss forces her to rethink this tactic, she starts to realize saying "no" feels pretty damn good. Sure it lands her with six weeks of unpaid leave from work, but now it means she can join her friends on the annual trip abroad. Once her mask starts to slip, so does Deiss's and Liv will have to decide if keeping hers in place is worth losing the people she loves most.
The start on this one was a little slow for me and I think the flashbacks to the friend group in college could have been a little more dynamic and shown more of Deiss and Liv's interactions, specifically how they could have been falling for each other and not realized it. Waldon's imagery was impeccable -- I felt like I was in Deiss's shop and apartment, but it felt like some subplot lines were necessarily left dangling until the final pages. I also would have liked to have seen Liv interact more with her mom, at the very least deciding to keep things the same between them as opposed to not addressing it at all.
Overall, it was a low-stakes romance that was a perfectly enjoyable place to spend time!