The Pact was a swoony read, with really high intense highs and some really frustrating people, I mean parts. that made ke want to scream. Overall, a book I would recommend for those who love a good friends-to-lovers story.

How can this book have so many high ratings? Stupid, stupid book. Huge cheese-fest.

I liked it but it felt slow. Also, it didn't feel like it had been edited. There were words missing or tenses weren't quite right... It distracted me. Still love Karina Halle and her writing though.

Pros:
+ Writing was good
+ loved the comments on how Steph's body changes over time. As well as life in general
Cons:
+ Why is everyone in love with Steph? She has no personality at all.
+ Why is anyone friends with James?
+ For my taste, the plot would have worked better if it started at a shotgun wedding, and had some flashbacks to the past 5 years.

"Life follows many directions and hopefully, eventually, your mind and body and life and love, all catch up with each other."

I absolutely loved Linden and Steph's story! It was a beautiful progress and ended just as it should!
As Steph said:
"This man is larger than life. He is my life. He is my Linden" Yeeees, swooning over the love!
I'm a sucker for romance.

I enjoyed this one. The story was a little different than I have read before so I liked that. You have 2 guys that are best friends and a girl that went out with one, but has fallen for the other. Neither wants to make a move because they do not want to ruin the friendship with each other and the other guy. So I liked the premise. As soon as I found out the occupation of the guy I knew how the story would end, but that's okay.

1.5 stars

5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Excellent - Highly Recommended
4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - A good, solid read
3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - An okay read
2 ⭐️⭐️ - Meh
1 ⭐️ - Not my cup of tea

1/2 KU. Too much smut, not enough plot/development. And the plane crash to bring them back together? So lame. I wish Linden would’ve come to his senses and groveled a little bit more instead.

Hello everybody my name is Sara and I'm running out of ways to describe my thoughts and opinions on generic romance novels and yet can't get myself to stop listening to generic romance novels. It's an illness there may not be a cure for.

I felt a little gypped in this one because it was listed under the "Marriages of Convenience" section on Audible Romance and there's no marriage of convenience. Yes, the two main characters make a pact to get married at age thirty if neither of them are married at that time, but no marriage occurs throughout the whole book.

This is a fine enough book, but as I said before, I'm just running out of things to say that I haven't already said about 90% of the other romance novels I've read this year. There was nothing truly special here, it wasn't particularly charming, witty, or fun, the chemistry between the characters was serviceable but not off the charts, and the plot was very been there done that. If you have read another book about a will they-won't they between two longtime friends, you've probably read this book before. It isn't bad, it just isn't unique.