We Met in December
Ratings6
Average rating2.7
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Ratings6
Average rating2.7
Following a year in the life of a twenty-something British woman who falls hard for her London flat mate, this clever, fun, and unforgettable romantic comedy is the perfect feel-good holiday read. Two people. One house. A year that changes everything. Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It’s December, and she’s taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don’t kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning how they will knock down the wall between them to spend more time together. But when Jess returns from a two-week Christmas holiday, she finds Alex has started dating someone else—beautiful Emma, who lives on the floor above them. Now Jess faces a year of bumping into (hell, sharing a bathroom with) the man of her dreams…and the woman of his.
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2.5/5
This was my first audiobook.
It wasn't necessarily a romance or holiday read, but a book merely about following two lives over the course of a year. I couldn't connect with the characters and their romantic feelings for each other felt forced.
With it being my first audiobook I was also having a hard time not zoning out but I'm definitely not ruling out audiobooks entirely.
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Christmas and London are a match made in heaven.
they don't seem to click until the end of the book and the transition is so abrupt that I wanted to go back and make sure I didn't blank out on some pages. One minute she was with James in Venice and then she breaks up with him and saying 'I love you' to Alex. It took them the entire book to clarify that Emma was just a fling.
Okay here's what I think...the book was good don't get me wrong. But I feel like Jess is a little trash because she dated James knowing damn well that her heart belonged to Alex and she thought of using James as a means to try and forget about her feelings for Alex.
Oh, I also don't like Emma she just rubs me the wrong way. And Alice—don't even get me started, she was 100% with Alex because of his money and was completely horrible when Alex expressed that he wanted to become a nurse.
The one character I feel like we should've seen more of was Rob, like he was unproblematic and just stayed in his lane.
I would also like to mention that I read this under the pretense of wanting to read Christmasy books but, this definitely is NOT a christmasy book. Which is fine because I like a little bit of romance, it's just the romance frustrated me at times.
