A review by trinityb2021
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

3.0

3 ⭐️ 

This book was really not what i was expecting. It is different from most contemporary romances. It’s dual POV but the MMC is autistic so his POV is kind of weird. It’s written with a lot of pronouns missing. He starts sentences with a verb/adverb usually and it took a lot of getting used to. After a while I just started filling in the gaps of where the missing words should go but I can’t say Iiked that. It’s even implied that he talks like that sometimes which is extremely weird. He’s a little bit like a caveman? It’s just his social awkwardness and inability to read social situations but I don’t know if caveman speak was the way to go to convey this. 

That being said, I did like Leon. He was extremely sweet and shy and had a special charm to him that’s hard to describe. I think the writing style for his chapters just threw me off because I liked him a lot more in Tiffy’s chapters. 

There’s a fair amount of emotional depth to this. Abusive exes, false imprisonment, hospice care, etc. I think it worked to make the story more emotional but I think the time could’ve been better spent developing the relationship between Leon and Tiffy. They don’t even talk face to face until half way through the book. Like I said, unique romance novel. I liked the charm of the notes. But I think we needed more time of them being actually into each other. 

Also this was extremely British. I didn’t understand an embarassing number of words and references because I’m American :(.