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A review by kevorkian
The Love Square by Laura Jane Williams
4.0
I loved reading The Love Square, but let me tell ya...I was pretty mad towards the end of it! And I almost feel like that's a good thing in this specific case!?
Let me explain.
Penny Bridge has just started an exciting, sexy relationship with Francesco when her uncle suffers a health issue bad enough that she needs to go back home and help out the family business. Back in her home town, she ends up meeting and liking two very different men. Now with three men pining for her love, who should she chose?!
Not. The. Guy. She. Chose!
To not spoil it completely, I personally found that the man she ended up with was a complete and utter douchecanoe. I despised him both when he was being the over-the-top in touch with his feelings guy AND when he was being the alpha-male macho dudebro. Just the fact that he turned from one to the other is concerning enough.
With saying that, I do want to emphasize again that I did indeed love this book! It's not just another light-hearted contemporary romance where you know exactly where it's going the whole time but that's okay because it's cute. Penny is a cancer survivor who has infertility issues related to her illness and the author handles the whole subplot beautifully. There is also great LGBTQ2S+ representation in this book. Penny has two separate family members who are in healthy, long term same sex relationships and one of Penny's closest friends is gender non-conforming. The diversity of characters as well as their choices and issues all felt genuine and made for a more complex read (in a good way)!
Let me explain.
Penny Bridge has just started an exciting, sexy relationship with Francesco when her uncle suffers a health issue bad enough that she needs to go back home and help out the family business. Back in her home town, she ends up meeting and liking two very different men. Now with three men pining for her love, who should she chose?!
Not. The. Guy. She. Chose!
To not spoil it completely, I personally found that the man she ended up with was a complete and utter douchecanoe. I despised him both when he was being the over-the-top in touch with his feelings guy AND when he was being the alpha-male macho dudebro. Just the fact that he turned from one to the other is concerning enough.
With saying that, I do want to emphasize again that I did indeed love this book! It's not just another light-hearted contemporary romance where you know exactly where it's going the whole time but that's okay because it's cute. Penny is a cancer survivor who has infertility issues related to her illness and the author handles the whole subplot beautifully. There is also great LGBTQ2S+ representation in this book. Penny has two separate family members who are in healthy, long term same sex relationships and one of Penny's closest friends is gender non-conforming. The diversity of characters as well as their choices and issues all felt genuine and made for a more complex read (in a good way)!