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You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

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3.0

All in all a Good Book. Enemies-to-lovers Trope (so to say) and a very funny main character. Though for me it was a too slow buildup and then ended too abruptly. I wish it would explored more of the new dynamics between the main characters.
If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane

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5.0

I really loved this book! I don’t know why but I had put off reading it for a long time, and now I’m so happy to have gone through with it!
I loved the fact that the main character is *for once* an ‘older’ woman (36yo) and that the book really depicts how daunting it is to have to go back to dating at this age / at this stage of life.
I predict this book is going to become one of my favourites ever - and I’m thankful for my friend Sophie who suggested it to me :)
Mistletoe on 34th Street by Lisa Dickenson

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2.0

The premises for me to love this book were all there:
- Christmas time
- in New York
- A girl who doesn’t believe in (traditional) Christmas
- A love triangle

... and yet. I’m sorry to say that I didn’t enjoy this book as I’d thought I would. The love story, that ought to be the main part of a rom-con, was kept short and ‘up to the point’, as though it wasn’t, in fact, the main point of the book. I found myself rushing through the book just to get to the juicy bits. It’s a shame, because I could have definitely done with more of the romance between the characters.
Holiday Home Run by Priscilla Oliveras

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3.0

In this Short story we meet the Fernandez’ sisters cousin Julia. The book timeline plays between Rosa’s story and Lily’s. it’s a sweet romance, even though I would have loved to explore more of the main characters’s attraction ... but it’s a Christmas short story, so I get that it was kept short(er).
How to Fail at Flirting by Denise Williams

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4.0



I started this thinking I would read a breezy, fun rom-com... but the book is way more complex than that and deals with the extremely difficult topic of violence (physical and psychological) in a couple.

If you “just” want to read about a love story, then I’d advise you that this book might be too much for you.

I am a strong person, and have (thankfully) never experienced the events described in the story, not even a little in my life... and yet, those scenes gave me pause and forced me to stop reading, a lump in my throat and a need to “regroup” before I could go on.

It’s an incredibly awful topic, extremely difficult to deal with, but I am glad I pulled through.

Still, it was a difficult, bitter read at some points, and one does not leave this book lightly after finishing it, the feeling is bittersweet. You’ve been warned.
The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez

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5.0

This book just SHATTERED me. It’s so devastating. I’ve felt every single page. I’ve laughed so hard, I’ve cried even harder. Everything about this book is just so good, and not only because I can unfortunately relate to Sloan’s situation, but because you can see the author poured her whole heart into it and wrote it with a friend on her mind (and in her heart). And so this book actually does reach the soul. It did, for me, and I feel whole and better for it.
What a gift, to read this.