lonnnneke's reviews
822 reviews

I thoroughly enjoyed myself reading this book. Even if the couple wasn't the ultimate ship for me, which is normally kinda the main thing in romance books, it was just so funny and nice to read. I really liked how the author didn't make any Gavin or Thea the 'bad guy' in the relationship. They both fucked up and didn't work for their relationship. Instead of making Gavin the villain, the author just made him human and instead of making Thea the innocent angel it showed her flaws too. I also really appreciate how the problems in this book were just ordinary relationship problems. Often in romance book there will be this big, almost unforgivable thing that creates a problem between the two love interests, but this book really did it right. I also found the book club and the characters in there hilarious and found myself laughing out loud a few times about how ridiculous it actually was. The ridiculousness wasn't necessarily a bad thing though, I kinda liked it in this book.

The only thing that bothered me a bit is how over the top some scenes would be. Gavin quoting the regency romance stuff to Thea and the guys saying shit like 'it's all about the backstory man' were a little too much. I couldn't take that shit serious since it made me picture a The Rock-like guy making fun of romance books. Overall the book was very addicting though and I would definitely recommend it if you're into romcoms.

Wow I’m shocked. I didn’t know much about the synopsis before going in besides people saying that’s it’s basically a black mirror episode in the format of a novel. I completely agree with that description. Won’t say more since it’s really best knowing nothing with this story, but it’s definitely worth picking up!

This was quite a dissapointment. I really like the books the author writes under the name Sophie Kinsella, but so far the books she writes under her real name aren't great. This story tells the story of three families. Their stories are intertwined, but they all have their own problems and except for Johnathan the characters were so awful and stupid. In thHere end there was somewhat of an happy ending, but I just didn't care. They didn't deserve their happy ending and the resolution was so easy and unbelievable. Why would 3 adults hang out with a 14 year old girl that comes off as a stalker? Does this big shot estate guy think that if his fraud would be discovered they would just forgive him because he did something 'good' with it? There were just so many stupid things. Sometimes there would be a scene I really liked, but the author would always find a way to ruin it before the scene was over.

Honestly the only good thing about this book was the writing style. Wickham/Kinsella has an upbeat writing style that makes you fly through her books and makes you think you kind of enjoy it even when the book isn't great. I would recommend just sticking with the books she's written under her pseudonym though.

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.

Very disappointing. If I wasn't listening to it on the bike to work I probably would have never finished it.

This book is so important, but also so good!