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Never Ever Getting Back Together
by Sophie Gonzales
Thank you so much to Sophie Gonzales, St Martin's Press, Wednesday's Books & NetGalley for an advance copy of this book!
"I thought it was easy to choose not to fall for someone. But it's not. It's not something you can control. You don't jump. You get pushed."
Imagine being asked to be on a second chance dating show where you are asked to compete with other ex girlfriends to win the heart of your ex back. But instead of falling for your ex, you end up falling for one of the other ex girlfriends? That is exactly what happens when Maya met Skye.
"I met a girl, and she made me believe love was worth the risk."
The premise of this book was so good and I remember when I heard Sophie talking about this early on how exciting this was. And to my memory nothing like this has not really been done. There have been other romance books where it had a reality tv premise (One to Watch or If The Shoe Fits) but nothing where the contestant fall for each other.
I love that the tension between Maya and Skye was so believable in the first half of the book and I am glad that it lingered on until half way through. I don't think it would have worked for me had the relationship started to develop sooner. I am not sure if they are a happily ever after but I definitely can see them as happily for now.
"Jordy's his own gasoline. Maybe all I needed to do was light a match."
Jordy was such a great villain! And reminded me of a few characters from the Bachelorette over the seasons that I have watched. He was the classic narcissist that loves the attention and didn't care who was hurt in the process. He knew exactly what he was doing the whole time and good luck to whoever doesn't see his red flags. Even though he was a slimeball I enjoyed reading about him because I just wanted to see what more lies came out of his mouth.
My biggest issue which was hard to not forget was the ages of the characters. It was hard to believe that 18 year olds would go on a dating reality show to date someone they dated when they were 16?! I think if the ages would have been shifted to the early 20s and then competing in their mid to late 20s that would have made more sense. I also don't think someone who was broken up with at 16 would still be so angry and have so much vengeance they want to seek 2-3 years later? This is coming from someone who did not date at 16 so maybe I would feel different but even my relationship at 18 I was over it after a few months.
Sophie Gonzales will always be an auto buy/read author and I really would love for her to try to venture into the adult world because I think she would be fantastic!
Two ratings:
3 stars as a YA
4 stars as if it was an Adult book
Average between the two: 3.5
"I thought it was easy to choose not to fall for someone. But it's not. It's not something you can control. You don't jump. You get pushed."
Imagine being asked to be on a second chance dating show where you are asked to compete with other ex girlfriends to win the heart of your ex back. But instead of falling for your ex, you end up falling for one of the other ex girlfriends? That is exactly what happens when Maya met Skye.
"I met a girl, and she made me believe love was worth the risk."
The premise of this book was so good and I remember when I heard Sophie talking about this early on how exciting this was. And to my memory nothing like this has not really been done. There have been other romance books where it had a reality tv premise (One to Watch or If The Shoe Fits) but nothing where the contestant fall for each other.
I love that the tension between Maya and Skye was so believable in the first half of the book and I am glad that it lingered on until half way through. I don't think it would have worked for me had the relationship started to develop sooner. I am not sure if they are a happily ever after but I definitely can see them as happily for now.
"Jordy's his own gasoline. Maybe all I needed to do was light a match."
Jordy was such a great villain! And reminded me of a few characters from the Bachelorette over the seasons that I have watched. He was the classic narcissist that loves the attention and didn't care who was hurt in the process. He knew exactly what he was doing the whole time and good luck to whoever doesn't see his red flags. Even though he was a slimeball I enjoyed reading about him because I just wanted to see what more lies came out of his mouth.
My biggest issue which was hard to not forget was the ages of the characters. It was hard to believe that 18 year olds would go on a dating reality show to date someone they dated when they were 16?! I think if the ages would have been shifted to the early 20s and then competing in their mid to late 20s that would have made more sense. I also don't think someone who was broken up with at 16 would still be so angry and have so much vengeance they want to seek 2-3 years later? This is coming from someone who did not date at 16 so maybe I would feel different but even my relationship at 18 I was over it after a few months.
Sophie Gonzales will always be an auto buy/read author and I really would love for her to try to venture into the adult world because I think she would be fantastic!
Two ratings:
3 stars as a YA
4 stars as if it was an Adult book
Average between the two: 3.5