Just My Type

In Just My Type, LP and her high school ex boyfriend, Seth have to go head to head for a job. They're tasked with challenges for the serial monogamist LP to become OK with being single and for Seth to find a long term relationship.

The book was quite enjoyable, especially if I put aside the little things that bugged me about it. I enjoyed reading the main character's personal growth, and I especially liked where the author took the concept of learning to be by yourself, that you don't have to be single to stand on your own two feet.

I was very vested in the workplace drama. LP's boss is... a piece of work. I was really impressed with how that whole arc was handled as well.

The romance was super cute. I love second chance romance, and I could truly feel their connection throughout the book, how much they mattered to each other. How they clearly still loved one another even if they're in denial about it. It all wrapped up quite adorably by the end too.

There were many other great small details like the strong friendships, complicated mother-daughter relationship, and in depth therapy sessions. Like not just saying she went to therapy and have everything magically fixed but having the sessions on page, throughout the book.


Everything that bugged me:
- I couldn't stand the main character for most of the book, she comes across very immature, and thinks the whole world revolves around her.
- The emotional resolution of a lot of the problems are very surface. She attends a single event, and is cured of her anger towards her ex, she attends another and is cured of her resentment towards her mom and so on.These are complex and real feelings that deserve more space to heal.
- I didn't get the resolution of LP and Seth's differences on what happened with them in the past. She seemed to have such strong feelings about how he messed up last time they saw each other. Then when they actually talk about it, she takes all the blame?
- There are a lot of unexplained and unresolved details. Like what happened with #LongTermPotential, why Seth seemingly keeps going hot and cold, why he made the blind date act that way etc.
- Initially I thought it was cool that the MC was using Norse Gods in place of saying God, like “Oh my Loki” but then I realized, no, she means the Marvel characters, and it immediately became cringey.
- Other cringey parts too, especially one possibly problematic one where the MC thinks she'll just make a gay guy kiss her since it won't mean anything to him?! WAT?!...

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