Yours Truly

This book follows the story of Briana, Alexis Best friend from “Part of your world”, and Jacob. Both characters are ER doctors and both are great at what they do - Briana is waiting to be promoted to Chief of emergency, position that Jacob occupied in a different hospital. They both are experiencing some very difficult times in their lives and find in each other the joy they were needing.

I'm truly disappointed with this book. This is definitely a “me” problem as most of the reviews state wonders about the book. I was loving it during the first half but at some point I just couldn't enjoy it anymore.

What was great about the book:
- Jacob is amazing and deserves 5 stars. He is beautifully written and a perfect portrait of how it is to live with anxiety. I loved to read his POV and learn his coping mechanisms.
- Abby, as expected, does a wonderful job writing about the serious topics - anxiety, critical renal failure, depression etc..
- the letters between them were adorable

What I think it could have been done better:
- in my opinion, this book just had too much of everything:
- too many tropes - enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, workplace romance, fake dating, forced proximity, one bed, miscommunication, and it doesn't even end here but I won't spoiler further than this
- MAJOR miscommunication issues. I'm not sure I have read a book with this much miscommunication.
- The slowest of slow burns: they kiss (and have everything else) at 81% mark of the book. This could work well, but because of the way it was written it wasn't even satisfactory. It just left me anxious, annoyed and mad about what was happening.
- After all the angst, we still have a 3rd act break up (more like a 5th act? Almost an epilogue break up to be honest) that I don't think it added anything to the story. I liked the way the break up was resolved, it made sense with the storyline, but it could have been used earlier in the book, avoiding the last conflict.
- It's perfectly ok to have characters that are not nice and that people don't like. Every family has at least one black sheep. Briana becoming best friends with Amy is just nonsense.

The book is not bad, it just wasn't right for me. I still think most romance readers will love it.