My first book by this author was You've Got A Match which I've read multiple times and it's always 5 stars. In that book, I loved the emphasis on sisterhood, and i felt like romance was more a side plot. I'm gonna have to give this one a 3 stars coz it was mid. Maybe it's also that I'm in a slump and I'm pretty sick of romances coz they more or less have the same trope.
I know this author (I've read 4 of her books including this one) so I know she can do so much better. I hate how fast paced this book was, especially the first few chapters with the MCs going straight from "We're meeting after so long" to "lets fake date" in the blink of an eye. I also wish we had both POVs instead of just June's. This was Lord's first Adult novel venture, and I didn't like the attempts to make it adult. The adult problems or kissing scene or whatever, just not a fan.
This book was just so surface level I couldn't get in the MCs head and feel anything. It's like the author just wrote something for the sake of it. Like what I would imagine an AI bot would conjure if I fed it the terms "beach read", "friends t lovers", "fake dating", and "second chance romance". Of course, it wasn't THAT bad, and I'll talk about that in just a second. But please, where's the chemistry and sparks? What's happened t the writing I don't understand I just couldn't root for the characters. Could be me having high expectations but I'm not sorry for wanting something Abby and Savvy level from the very same author.
Why didn't I completely hate this book or DNF it? Well, it's the little bits that took me through. The familiarity between the MCs and the bond they share. I loved the relationship and memories of the MCs with June's sister, and how their loss of her bought them closer. I love Sana she's such a badass and how June later grows as a person. I liked Levi's backstory, surface level as it was and loved his quirks and insecurities and how those changed throughout the book. I also loved the very beginning when the MCs meet for the first time and that's the only time, I see the romantic potential. I genuinely think this is one of those books where friends to lovers shouldn't have happened and they should've just been left alone as friends.
Do I recommend this? No. Not a fan of the writing style on this one, or the execution or just the hesitancy reflected in the characters. I think I'm just going to resort to treasuring You've Got A Match and not get crazy hopeful about the next work by this author.
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