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Love Me or Leave Me by Claudia Carroll
4.0

Chloe Townsend is back in Dublin a year after being left at the altar. Now she is the manager of a brand new hotel with a difference - the guests are all going through a divorce, and by the time they leave the hotel, their divorce will be complete. It's a divorce retreat of sorts. Chloe ends up meeting a lot of different couples, including some who still seem to love one another.

This was a sweet contemporary romance that I really enjoyed reading as it was set in Dublin City and the hotel itself was situated on the exact same street I work on, and that I walk on every single day! I really enjoy reading modern books set in Dublin and recognizing the different landmarks and being able to picture everything. This probably comes from reading so many books set in the UK and US and not always feeling familiar with setting. Sometimes it's nice reading a book set at home and where all the characters talk like you and your friends.

I enjoyed the different couples in this book a lot but unfortunately their stories completely overshadowed Chloe who was suppose to be the main character but was just so boring compared to everyone else. While she was a nice character, there wasn't anything particularly interesting about her (except her being jilted at the altar). There was nothing in her storyline that was surprising and I knew exactly how everything would work out with her and the person who she would clearly end up with. Her storyline with her ex also wrapped up really quickly and while it was satisfying, there was very little there to explain why she was with him in the first place.

There was also a very dated moment in this book when a character's bisexuality was completely erased as just "a step" towards fully coming out as gay which we all know is bs. This book wasn't written that long ago that I feel like this is okay and I was really surprised by it.