I’ve been reading a lot of romcoms lately, through sheer coincidence. These are books that have been on my NetGalley Backlist for a while and I’m trying steadily to get through that list. I love a good romcom but after a while they all become a little stale so I’m going try to not let that affect my review.
June and Levi were friends in high school but their relationship never escalated past that. Now in their mid twenties, both are trying to recover from very public, gone viral breakups. June owns a beach side scone shop that is floundering and Levi is a NYC hedge fund manager who has dreams of being a novelist. When a picture of them on the beach goes viral on the internet, they decide to give the public what they want and fake date very publicly in an attempt to bring in more business to June’s store. Neither are looking to jump into a romantic relationship with each other since Levi isn’t over his ex and June wants to honor the wishes of her late sister who always discouraged the two from dating before. Their ruse brings them what they were hoping it would but now they’re left wondering if that’s actually what they want.
I just found this to be meh. While I loved the side characters I couldn’t get on board with June. It drives me crazy when a character has the chance to clear up a miscommunication before it becomes one and doesn’t because she thinks talking about the issue will do more harm than good; that happened a lot. I by the middle of the book I was bored to tears with all of the talk about June’s late sister. Whenever she was mentioned it was always in the exact same way and it stopped adding to the plot after the first few times.
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy of this. I’m sorry it took me so long to get to it. The Break-Up Pact hit the shelves on August 13th.