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Book: The Falling in Love Montage

Author: Ciara Smyth

Book Series: Standalone

Diversity: F/f romance!

Rating: 5/5

Recommended For...: LGBT, f/f romance

Publication Date: June 9, 2020

Publisher: HarperTeen

Pages: 362

Recommended Age: 16+ (dementia, romance)

Synopsis: Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. So she’s not looking for a relationship. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out.

But after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms.

Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up—and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real.

Review: I thought this book was absolutely adorable. I loved the writing and the romance. The character development was amazing and the plot kept me intrigued. I also loved the setting and the world building was very well done.

My only issue is the pacing, I thought it was a little too slow for my personal tastes. I also thought the fourth wall breaking was well done but a bit weird and the ending was a bit weird.

Verdict: I highly recommend.