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A review by obsidian_blue
You Belong With Me by Mhairi McFarlane
2.0
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Dear readers, do not read this book if you have not read "Who's That Girl?" I honestly had zero idea this was a sequel until I started and kept going why do these characters sound familiar? LOL. I had to go back to my read list and found that I had read "Who's That Girl" in 2021. The book came out in 2015 though. And I have to say, I gave "Who's That Girl" 3.5 stars and rounded it up to 4 stars. I never really enjoyed Edie and Elliot's relationship in book #1 and in book #2 I was bored out of mind.
"You Belong With Me" follows Edie as she and Elliot try to have a relationship with each other and dealing with the PR of it all, people lying and scheming, etc. and Edie's lack of trust in the end with Elliot. This was just tedious. I think I got to the 30 percent mark and didn't like Edie or Elliot. Reading about a woman trying to navigate her romance with a movie star was not interesting and I don't know. I just want to read a romance that makes me root for the hero and heroine. Not wanting to go you need therapy and he needs to just be honest about things.
Edie was just boring. Reading about her reactions to Elliot out and about and reading their texts back and forth to each other made me bored and annoyed. I also got annoyed with how Edie kept acting like Elliot did something wrong by being with her. She was feeling insecure and that's most of this book. Hannah and Nick have zero personality outside of being Edie's sounding boards. Same with Fraser, Eliot's brother. Declan was not needed at all. Full stop.
Elliot, eh. I honestly at times wondered why he was trying to make it work with Edie. There's just no chemistry between them. He wants to be with her, but is resentful at times that she does not believe him and I swear they kept mini-breaking up to the point I was like are they still talking? No? Who cares. Maybe if I had re-read book #1 before I started this, I wouldn't have been caught confused a few times. I honestly had forgotten major storylines and went what a couple of times. I also wonder why McFarlane revisited these two characters. I can't imagine readers were demanding it.
The writing was so/so, most of it seems to be just text messages between multiple people and then emails, and then just barely any dialogue you can care about. . Look, I am 44 years old and don't text this much to anyone. Shit, I send my people goofy Instagram reels.
The ending was a big shrug to me. Probably because I didn't care if they stayed together or not.
Dear readers, do not read this book if you have not read "Who's That Girl?" I honestly had zero idea this was a sequel until I started and kept going why do these characters sound familiar? LOL. I had to go back to my read list and found that I had read "Who's That Girl" in 2021. The book came out in 2015 though. And I have to say, I gave "Who's That Girl" 3.5 stars and rounded it up to 4 stars. I never really enjoyed Edie and Elliot's relationship in book #1 and in book #2 I was bored out of mind.
"You Belong With Me" follows Edie as she and Elliot try to have a relationship with each other and dealing with the PR of it all, people lying and scheming, etc. and Edie's lack of trust in the end with Elliot. This was just tedious. I think I got to the 30 percent mark and didn't like Edie or Elliot. Reading about a woman trying to navigate her romance with a movie star was not interesting and I don't know. I just want to read a romance that makes me root for the hero and heroine. Not wanting to go you need therapy and he needs to just be honest about things.
Edie was just boring. Reading about her reactions to Elliot out and about and reading their texts back and forth to each other made me bored and annoyed. I also got annoyed with how Edie kept acting like Elliot did something wrong by being with her. She was feeling insecure and that's most of this book. Hannah and Nick have zero personality outside of being Edie's sounding boards. Same with Fraser, Eliot's brother. Declan was not needed at all. Full stop.
Elliot, eh. I honestly at times wondered why he was trying to make it work with Edie. There's just no chemistry between them. He wants to be with her, but is resentful at times that she does not believe him and I swear they kept mini-breaking up to the point I was like are they still talking? No? Who cares. Maybe if I had re-read book #1 before I started this, I wouldn't have been caught confused a few times. I honestly had forgotten major storylines and went what a couple of times. I also wonder why McFarlane revisited these two characters. I can't imagine readers were demanding it.
The writing was so/so, most of it seems to be just text messages between multiple people and then emails, and then just barely any dialogue you can care about. . Look, I am 44 years old and don't text this much to anyone. Shit, I send my people goofy Instagram reels.
The ending was a big shrug to me. Probably because I didn't care if they stayed together or not.