Yours Truly

4.75/5 ⭐
I love Jacob so much he deserves the world and Briana better treat him right. Only my second Abby Jimenez book but I want to read everything she's ever written already. Jacob's anxiety was so well-written. I found myself relating to him a lot which is great. And the way Briana learned what made Jacob anxious and how to read him was so sweet I can't. I love fake dating and friends-to-lovers so this was perfect. Them bonding was everything. The letters, the phone calls, the closet meetings. Yes. Also I usually hate the one-bed trope but it was so good in this book. Briana's commitment issues kind of came out of nowhere for me. It didn't feel like it was built up throughout the book and was instead just thrown in at the end. So the third-act breakup was a little annoying because they literally just got together. Also the accidental pregnancy didn't feel necessary. But overall such a great book. Almost perfect, highly recommend.

I don't normally read romance, but I took a chance on this one. I am so glad I did! Briana and Jacob are fantastic characters and their relationship is not overly dramatic. They are each dealing with things and there are misunderstandings, but they aren't trying to actively keep things from one another. They grow as people and as a couple in realistic ways.
The side characters are amazing. And really add a layer of fun and support to the story.
I just loved living in this world with them!

Jacob's got social anxiety and his ex is marrying his brother. Briana is going through a divorce and her brother needs a kidney stat. Now she has to deal with the new doctor trying to take her job. I loved how this book moved quickly past enemies to lovers and on to swoony fake dating. They were harmless to each other, which I appreciated throughout.

When this book started it was looking like 5 stars, but the third act has me knocking it down to a 4. 

The premise was cute enough. I liked that the MMC had anxiety, and both the FMC and MMC came from hurt pasts. But as the book went on, the FMC got a little too annoying, and the MMC had basically no flaws. The miscommunication trope drug on way too long and the slowest of burns suddenly came to a halt when they had their first kiss and then immediately had impromptu sex?. This is where it all fell downhill from me, and the whole surprise pregnancy trope was annoying too, and will definitely blindside folks (it definitely blindsided me). At the end it was a little unbelievable that the MMC would fight this hard for the FMC when she kept pushing him away.

This would have been 5 stars if we let the relationship progress at a more logical pace and didn't rely so much on miscommunication to drive the plot. Also apparently everyone in the main character's lives have all the answers but these two are still miscommunicating? 

Ik was mega excited om Briana's verhaal te lezen want in Part of Your World kwam ze over als een bad bitch. Maar mi gaddo dit was allemaal zo zoetsappig geschreven. Jacob maakt de meest mid joke ooit, Briana: “I was laughing SO HARD”. Oke miss girl? Verhaal ansich was wel heel leuk en daardoor snel uitgelezen. Wel extra ster aftrek voor een pregnancy trope ughh

this book. THIS BOOOOKKKK. i absolutely loved it. jacob made me feel so comfortable and seen as someone with extremely bad anxiety like him. i cried so many times while reading this book which i was 100% okay with because i needed a good cry! to me, this book was perfect and i will for sure be reading it again so i can annotate it physically! it really reminded me a bit of my current relationship except i'm the one with anxiety and he was the one who helped me realize that i am capable of being loved. 

pls read this book.

This book was amazing. It grabbed me from the first page and didn't let go. I binged this book so hard. Briana and Jacob are the most amazing couple. At first they didn't like each other, but then they start to send letters to each other and everything changes. They begin to fake date and learn so much about each other.

I love the male characters that Abby Jimenez writes. They give me hope in the world for the “good guys” and having Jacob have anxiety was even more endearing. I just can't stop thinking about this book and I have already gotten another of her books and I'm ready to read that next. She has definitely become an auto buy author for me.

Oh my god I loved this book. I'm not going to lie, I pre-rated it at 5 stars after the taco bell note. I love Briana and her humor. I want to date her. lol I feel like a lot of romances become meh for me because of a lack of humor in the leads. I loved the way Jacob's anxiety was written. I loved how Briana paid attention to his anxiety the whole time. Ughhhhh. I loved the letters so much. The perfect amount of tension. This is the first book in almost 5 years that I actually deprived myself of sleep for. So good.

I'm revising the rating. I had given it a 4.5, but I can't stop thinking about this book and I want to re-read it. This is a 5 star and I was just being stingy with it.

I adored this. I saw so much of myself in Jacob and Briana. Reading this truly felt like therapy. I spent the last few chapters sobbing, but I love it when a story hits me this hard. I still liked Part of Your World a bit more, but this was excellent. I will read everything Abby writes from now on.

Okay 4.5 - the miscommunication started to drive me nuts and sorry but the main character becoming best friends with the ex didn't sit right. Other than that I LOVED this book and resonated with the male main character which I did not think would happen but that made me appreciate it much more.

Also it could've ended after the first conflict resolution I don't think it needed to keep going.

I just finished yours truly by Abby jimiere And here are my musings!

When Dr Briana Ortiz finds out the new doctor has arrived and is going to compete with her for the promotion she thought she had in the bag, turns her already pigsty life into a storm of hell! When the nurses end up calling him Dr death... she feels it with her whole soul. That is until he writes her a letter... Feeling him pour him soul into the letter she knows she misunderstood the situation and him. She decides to give him a shot and writes a letter back...

Their friendship blossoms into a whirlwind of laughter, tears and brutal honesty that when Jacob decides to get tested to see if he is a match for her brother to have a kidney, he doesn't hesitate to say yes! Briana would give him the moon at this point and when he asks a favor from her, she knows she will do anything to help him out

This book was so adorable. I can totally relate to Briana and the wreckage that is her life. Divorcing a man who cheated for years with a friend of hers, finding out the new doc might just get her promotion, a very sick brother... Ugh that's so much! Too much for one person. She is literally holding herself together with pure stubbornness. What she did to her ex when she found out he cheated??? Pure gold haha!

Jacob is the literal opposite to her. Social anxiety. Awkward but so sweet and kind. Finds out his ex is marrying his brother and he just wants what is best for them. That's amazingly selfless. Watching their friendship develop was absolutely literary magic. I laughed so hard and sobbed so much my husband was starting to get worried about me. He shouldn't have been, this book took me on the most spectacular ride that I found myself wishing the book wouldn't end. It was so raw and real I couldn't get enough of Jacob and Briana's exchanges. I loved watching how she drew him out of himself and he helped to rebuild her trust in herself and the world.

Are you a fan of rom coms? This one will blow expectation you have out of the water.

5 stars. Thank you