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A review by hideyourspoons
The Next Best Fling by Gabriella Gamez
4.0
If you're rebounding with your crush's brother, but that brother is pining for the crush's fiancé, is that a love square? Yes, you read that correctly - a love square. Let me simplify:
Marcela loves Ben.
Ben is engaged to Alice.
Theo (Ben's brother) is in love with Alice.
Marcela & Theo agree to be each other's rebound fling.
Maybe its not a square. Maybe instead its a telenovela / CW network drama with secrets & lies, steamy attraction, miscommunication, and grand gestures.
Seriously can not over emphasize the melodrama of it all. I wanted to cry when Marcela self-sabotaged. Had to restrain myself when Ben showed some toxic behavior. Was absolutely baffled by Alice's choice of brothers. Meanwhile, if I could protect Theo from all harm, I would.
This is the book you buddy read with a beatie or a club. Because you'll have opinions about who was right or wrong in each conflict. And sometimes its not so easy to judge when you k ow the deep history amd hurts of these very real-to-life characters.
A critical note, I feel the story was hampered by repetitive conflicts. The number of times Ben & Alice gave Marcela cryptic vague warnings drove me crazy. Theres also a few bookish references that elicited a LeoPoints.meme reaction that took me out of the story. But! If a book can inspire more reading - diverse reading - then yes please give me more name drops and help me build a TBR.
Thank you Netgalley & Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for this advance copy in exchange for my honest review.
Marcela loves Ben.
Ben is engaged to Alice.
Theo (Ben's brother) is in love with Alice.
Marcela & Theo agree to be each other's rebound fling.
Maybe its not a square. Maybe instead its a telenovela / CW network drama with secrets & lies, steamy attraction, miscommunication, and grand gestures.
Seriously can not over emphasize the melodrama of it all. I wanted to cry when Marcela self-sabotaged. Had to restrain myself when Ben showed some toxic behavior. Was absolutely baffled by Alice's choice of brothers. Meanwhile, if I could protect Theo from all harm, I would.
This is the book you buddy read with a beatie or a club. Because you'll have opinions about who was right or wrong in each conflict. And sometimes its not so easy to judge when you k ow the deep history amd hurts of these very real-to-life characters.
A critical note, I feel the story was hampered by repetitive conflicts. The number of times Ben & Alice gave Marcela cryptic vague warnings drove me crazy. Theres also a few bookish references that elicited a LeoPoints.meme reaction that took me out of the story. But! If a book can inspire more reading - diverse reading - then yes please give me more name drops and help me build a TBR.
Thank you Netgalley & Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for this advance copy in exchange for my honest review.