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Playing for Keeps by Jennifer Dugan
3.0
emotional sad tense
Strong character development: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was fine 🤷🏻‍♀️ I was honestly quite bored throughout half of it and almost dnf’d a few times but I was curious enough to keep going and I did like the ending so I’m glad I stuck with it! I think my main issue is how fast Ivy & June’s relationship progressed, like it might’ve made more sense if they had been friends or even known each other before meeting but it was literally like they met, they were attracted to each other but they didn’t like each other, then all of a sudden the next time they were alone, they were getting together and I just never fully felt the chemistry between them 🤷🏻‍♀️ I did really like how the story dived into how grief makes people do things that people don’t understand  and how hard it is to live up to expectations that you didn’t choose for yourself! That aspect was done really well and I’d recommend the book just for that but the romance just really fell flat for me personally!