Courtney

Hey, friends? This book was Not Good. The only interesting parts were the book-within-a-book chapters, the leads were wooden and boring, and the ending was a huge cop-out.

However, easy-breezy reading. Is that why Colleen Hoover is popular? Readability? Genuinely asking, I had to purposely slow myself down to read this in basically a few hours over 3 evenings.

Oh this made me sad.

Disappointed it wasn't gayer tbh. Was kindof rooting for Casey and Katherine to get together at the end.

Pure schmaltz (complimentary).

I really enjoyed the central romance and the story wasn't bad but the writing style was just not for me.

For the life of me, I can't really pin-point why this didn't hit for me. There's a lot to love about this book - I especially really enjoyed the narrative style - just something about it didn't quite work for me.

Books about books! A great little mystery.

Does this count as self-insert RPF? Anyway, fun! Super quick and easy read.

Ehhhh.

This book has a cryptid and somehow that's not the scary part.

Sarah J. Maas: “The Night Court managed to remain unscathed.”

Me: Harry Anderson is dead, Sarah. Do you even care? I don't call that “unscathed”.

Pretty Meh on this book other than that Liv's fate really upset and disturbed me. That whole scene at the ball with her really upset me. Idk after that I kindof coasted through the book. It also felt weird that, after the end, Erin isn't really revisited, we're just left to assume what happens to her after the postscript.

Ending was rushed.

extended farting noise

the last chapter of this book is all I needed to confirm that Luke/Wedge used to be canon GREATJOB

I really wanted to like this and it started out really promising but then I felt like nothing happened for most of the book.

Matt sucks though.

So, I'm reading this book, right? And I find myself genuinely surprised - and possibly just a teeny bit disturbed - at how many things I agree with. Clarkson, I'm not supposed to relate to you. Cut that out.

I get that this is a fluffy romcom but there was 0 conflict until the last 30 pages and it was booooring

It's not bad at all, i just really didn't connect with it at all - and there are too many characters?

I think I don't like TJR's writing style. This was a hella boring slog and it really shouldn't have been, I almost DNF'd 40% of the way through it.

Men are just the absolute worst.

FAKE DATING TROPE FAKE DATING TROPE FAKE DATING TROPE

I enjoyed it a lot, though I didn't feel like the attempt at adapting the podcast formula of Marcus telling the story while Ben and Henry interject translated to book format especially well.

I mean I was already having some Problems with the characterization here but then that ending... hoo boy.