A review by velsbooknook
Give Me Butterflies by Jillian Meadows

4.5

This was so cute! The story follows Finn and Millie who both work at a science museum. Millie is an entomologist and Finn is an astronomer.

I loved the nerdy and scientific parts of the book. It's grumpy x sunshine, he falls first and Finn and Millie's banter was just lovely. 

Finn is the guardian of his two nieces and they just added the perfect amount of wholesomeness to this story and moments with Millie. 

Millie was a beautiful character and I could empathize with her inner monologues. She was very relatable and she dealt so well with all the problems thrown at her. I also very much appreciated Finn's POV. He is serious book boyfriend material. He is so supportive and especially protective of his nieces and Millie.

The book is quite steamy but if it's not your cup of tea, you can easily skip those chapters. I did so myself later in the story, because I couldn't be bothered for the spicy scenes, I just wanted to know how things would work out in the end. It's maybe because of the name Millie. I'm so sorry if you're a adult-Millie reading that, but Millie works for me as a name for a girl and it just felt so wrong reading this name over and over again when things were about to get steamy. 

I read this book via audiobook and I would recommend reading it as a physical book. I did not enjoy the narration all too much, but that's just my personal preference of course and has nothing to do with the story. 

I really enjoyed this one and flew through it over the weekend. The perfect spicy and nerdy romance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Toxic relationship, and Grief