A review by lonnnneke
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

4.0

Very cute romance with great characters! Somestimes the synopsis sounds so good and the eleboration isn't, but this book is as cute as the synopsis make it seem. I really liked the two main characters. Tiffy actually reminds me a little of Lou from Me Before You. Not in a way that she's a copy, but she had some similarities on things I really liked about Lou! Leon isn't the typical bossy, dominant love interest which was really refreshing. I also think the backstory about Tiffy's abusive boyfriend was done very well! Romance books often uses abuse as some kind of character trait (especially in new ault), but in this book it was a believable backstory and the way Tiffy learned to go on was really nice to read about.

I took a star off for the writing though. The chapters from Tiffy's POV were fine, but the author used a weird style for Leon's chapters which really put me off at the beginning. After 100 pages it started to make sense with the character, but I still wasn't the biggest fan. Had to reread sentences multiple times to realize what was being said by who.