’”What I’m realizing,” I continue, “is that I like myself the most when I’m around you. And I think it’s because I’m the most honest version of myself. I don’t have to try as hard, and I don’t have to hide. I can just. . .be.”’


I’m kind of disappointed by this story overall. I adored Rachel Lynn Solomon’s YA novel Today Tonight Tomorrow, but ever since reading that, I haven’t had much luck with her books. I read We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This which was an absolute mess, and now I’ve read Weather Girl which was a pretty big disappointment.


I really enjoyed the way this book portrayed depression, and while this isn’t how my depression is, it’s so nice to finally have more representation of depression in romance. I also loved the plus sized hero rep, because I rarely ever see that rep in books at all. I’m plus-sized and it’s so nice to have good and well-done representation. Rachel Lynn Solomon also always has own-voices Jewish rep in her books, and I always love to see it. But that’s really where the good ends.


I also really enjoyed the hero in this book, he was very sweet and so understanding of the heroine and her depression. But I just didn’t really like the heroine in this story. She was entirely too self-centered, and she made every problem in her life about her depression. She was just an asshole really. She did grow by the end, but it took her till the third act breakup to stop being an idiot. Speaking of the 3rd act breakup, the conflict was also so corny, predictable, and just blatantly unnecessary. It just made me dislike Ari, our heroine even more than I did before.


This book wasn’t bad persay, there just wasn’t much flavor to it. I watched a movie called Set it Up in November with essentially the exact same plot as this book, and I really didn’t enjoy that movie either. So maybe this let’s get our asshole bosses back-together trope isn’t my thing. I will say however, I listened to the audiobook, and it was a pretty solid experience. The narrator was good, and told the story in a well rounded way.


Anyways, I’m highly disappointed by this story because I want to love another book by this author again, but so far I have been very unlucky.


➸ 2.75 stars