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Out on a Limb
by Hannah Bonam-Young
emotional
medium-paced
ugh! this book was this close đ¤ to perfect and Iâm kinda mad
This book was on track to be my favourite contemporary romance of all time. Which is why this four star rating guts me.
Loved all this:
⨠The one night stand to accidental pregnancy to co-parents to lovers was deliciously messy.
⨠There was so much heart in this disability rep (the author even has the same disability as the FMC).
⨠And then my favourite partâI LOVED that this heroine wasnât Carrie Bradshaw. Set in Toronto, this was an amazing example of the Canadian cost of living crisis. She worked full-time but only made 20K, she could barely afford her apartment (which shouldâve been condemned), she definitely couldnât afford to move because rents had increased too much, and yeah, Canadian maternity leave gives you 55% of your income for 4 months but half of âNot Enoughâ for âToo Little Time' is just âDefinitely Not Enoughâ for âHow Daduq Are We Supposed To Liveâ đ Her creeping realization that she wouldnât be able to recreate her own impoverished childhood (also raised by a single mother) was The Moment.
But then đŠ
â¨Yeah, she wasnât Carrie Bradshaw, but he was still Mr. Big. If you own a house with a yard within walking distance of Lake Ontario in Toronto by the time youâre 29âyouâre either a multigenerational nepo baby or a unicorn. And that pivot from contemporary romance to fantasy romance wasnât for me.
⨠I was ready to forgive the single POV in here (even though he had way too much character arc not to have a POV imo) until our hero became⌠too much of a Manic Pixie Dream Book-Boyfriend? He was such a mishmash. He was competitive and bossy-boots in the bedroom (who else is over Good Girl?) but also a cinnamon roll; a dork but also gorgeous; smirky but also shy; an ambitious startup guy but also a humble primary caregiver guy; etc etc. If all this fits together somehow, I needed some receipts (aka his POV).
⨠Idk, in a book that was trying to keep it real, he was too fake.
This book was on track to be my favourite contemporary romance of all time. Which is why this four star rating guts me.
Loved all this:
⨠The one night stand to accidental pregnancy to co-parents to lovers was deliciously messy.
⨠There was so much heart in this disability rep (the author even has the same disability as the FMC).
⨠And then my favourite partâI LOVED that this heroine wasnât Carrie Bradshaw. Set in Toronto, this was an amazing example of the Canadian cost of living crisis. She worked full-time but only made 20K, she could barely afford her apartment (which shouldâve been condemned), she definitely couldnât afford to move because rents had increased too much, and yeah, Canadian maternity leave gives you 55% of your income for 4 months but half of âNot Enoughâ for âToo Little Time' is just âDefinitely Not Enoughâ for âHow Daduq Are We Supposed To Liveâ đ Her creeping realization that she wouldnât be able to recreate her own impoverished childhood (also raised by a single mother) was The Moment.
But then đŠ
â¨Yeah, she wasnât Carrie Bradshaw, but he was still Mr. Big. If you own a house with a yard within walking distance of Lake Ontario in Toronto by the time youâre 29âyouâre either a multigenerational nepo baby or a unicorn. And that pivot from contemporary romance to fantasy romance wasnât for me.
⨠I was ready to forgive the single POV in here (even though he had way too much character arc not to have a POV imo) until our hero became⌠too much of a Manic Pixie Dream Book-Boyfriend? He was such a mishmash. He was competitive and bossy-boots in the bedroom (who else is over Good Girl?) but also a cinnamon roll; a dork but also gorgeous; smirky but also shy; an ambitious startup guy but also a humble primary caregiver guy; etc etc. If all this fits together somehow, I needed some receipts (aka his POV).
⨠Idk, in a book that was trying to keep it real, he was too fake.