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A review by rnshack
You Have a Match by Emma Lord
3.0
3 Stars
While I didn’t love this like I did Tweet Cute it was very good and I actually finished it in a day.
Emma Lord has such a way with character chemistry and development. I loved the characters and their friendships and interactions. What I didn’t love was the parents in this story or the way in which the adoption portion was written. I didn’t believe the way the adoption portion of the plot and secondly the way the parents acted and interacted was super strange and struck me as over the top and unbelievable. Who gives a baby to their best friend and believes that’s going to work out? Also, I couldn’t get past Maggie changing her mind and not retaining custody of Savvy. There are laws that protect both the birth mothers and the adoptive parents and most of the time when the birth parents change their mind they retain custody of the child. I don’t know Washington adoption laws but I couldn’t get past that. For this book to be so good that felt like that part of the plot was phoned in a bit. There were so many more believable ways to write that part of the story and once we learned what happened it kind of ruin the book for me a bit.
That being said I love Emma Lord and am excited to see what she releases next.
While I didn’t love this like I did Tweet Cute it was very good and I actually finished it in a day.
Emma Lord has such a way with character chemistry and development. I loved the characters and their friendships and interactions. What I didn’t love was the parents in this story or the way in which the adoption portion was written. I didn’t believe the way the adoption portion of the plot and secondly the way the parents acted and interacted was super strange and struck me as over the top and unbelievable. Who gives a baby to their best friend and believes that’s going to work out? Also, I couldn’t get past Maggie changing her mind and not retaining custody of Savvy. There are laws that protect both the birth mothers and the adoptive parents and most of the time when the birth parents change their mind they retain custody of the child. I don’t know Washington adoption laws but I couldn’t get past that. For this book to be so good that felt like that part of the plot was phoned in a bit. There were so many more believable ways to write that part of the story and once we learned what happened it kind of ruin the book for me a bit.
That being said I love Emma Lord and am excited to see what she releases next.