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Just Friends
by Holly McCulloch
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of “Just Friends”.
Star rating: 3.5
In “Just Friends”, we meet Bea who is just a little socially awkward, a little self conscious and a little introverted. She is also very smart, sensitive and funny.
I loved her from the very beginning. We follow her through a part of her life, where she is just not really content with anything. Her job bores her, she has a side business for greetings cards with puns on them which she doesn’t really develop any further and romantically she is in a total rut.
It doesn’t help that all of her friends are seemingly happily paired off and are getting married. Everyone but Peter that is.
Peter, who is always here for her no matter what and who supports her through everything while bringing fried chicken. In short: the perfect man.
But Bea has sworn that she would never again fall in love with a good friend because her last friends to lovers scenario didn’t end well. It gets even worse, when she starts realising that Peter is in fact the perfect man for her and can’t seem to shake the crush, even though she tries very hard.
I absolutely loved this cute friends to lovers story. It was very cute and relatable. Sometimes, it felt a little repetitive but the grand gesture moment in the end made it all worth it!
Bea doesn’t feel like your usual heroine who is seemingly awkward – Bea IS awkward. And I enjoyed that so very much. The fact that she is making cards with puns on them just put her into a whole different category for me than the other heroines who just lounge about in their high heels, sipping wine and saying they’re nerds without ever having heard anything about the MCU. So I am definitely a huge fan of Bea. I am also a huge fan of her friends and especially Peter. The love interest whose nick name is oddly bodly and who announces that he is wearing lounge pants and that everyone should have them. YES.
The characters are amazing, the story is adorable and I recommend this to anyone who needs a wholesome romance fix in their lives!
Star rating: 3.5
In “Just Friends”, we meet Bea who is just a little socially awkward, a little self conscious and a little introverted. She is also very smart, sensitive and funny.
I loved her from the very beginning. We follow her through a part of her life, where she is just not really content with anything. Her job bores her, she has a side business for greetings cards with puns on them which she doesn’t really develop any further and romantically she is in a total rut.
It doesn’t help that all of her friends are seemingly happily paired off and are getting married. Everyone but Peter that is.
Peter, who is always here for her no matter what and who supports her through everything while bringing fried chicken. In short: the perfect man.
But Bea has sworn that she would never again fall in love with a good friend because her last friends to lovers scenario didn’t end well. It gets even worse, when she starts realising that Peter is in fact the perfect man for her and can’t seem to shake the crush, even though she tries very hard.
I absolutely loved this cute friends to lovers story. It was very cute and relatable. Sometimes, it felt a little repetitive but the grand gesture moment in the end made it all worth it!
Bea doesn’t feel like your usual heroine who is seemingly awkward – Bea IS awkward. And I enjoyed that so very much. The fact that she is making cards with puns on them just put her into a whole different category for me than the other heroines who just lounge about in their high heels, sipping wine and saying they’re nerds without ever having heard anything about the MCU. So I am definitely a huge fan of Bea. I am also a huge fan of her friends and especially Peter. The love interest whose nick name is oddly bodly and who announces that he is wearing lounge pants and that everyone should have them. YES.
The characters are amazing, the story is adorable and I recommend this to anyone who needs a wholesome romance fix in their lives!