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anyaemilie's Reviews (1.57k)
4.5 stars
THIS WAS SO CUTE!!!
I really liked this book 🥺 Noah and Sage were such different characters but had so many things in common as well. They really fit well together and I think their personalities meshed well (after they stopped arguing, of course 😛).
The side characters were super fun as well.But I do wish the Harry and Tyson thing had been explored a little more! It was hinted at so many times and I really thought we were going to get a little more in the epilogue, so that was a bit disappointing Ooh, except Liana though. She was the absolute WORST 🤬
Also, there was no 3rd act breakup! There definitely was a huge potential for one, and I totally could see how it would have worked in this case, but I really like how the conflict was handled instead. I know 3rd act breakups are a trope for a reason, but I love when authors subvert it and are able to resolve the big conflicts in different ways.
The epilogue was super cute and definitely made me cry a little 😭 Overall a very fun book, and I definitely recommend it!
THIS WAS SO CUTE!!!
I really liked this book 🥺 Noah and Sage were such different characters but had so many things in common as well. They really fit well together and I think their personalities meshed well (after they stopped arguing, of course 😛).
The side characters were super fun as well.
Also, there was no 3rd act breakup! There definitely was a huge potential for one, and I totally could see how it would have worked in this case, but I really like how the conflict was handled instead. I know 3rd act breakups are a trope for a reason, but I love when authors subvert it and are able to resolve the big conflicts in different ways.
The epilogue was super cute and definitely made me cry a little 😭 Overall a very fun book, and I definitely recommend it!
I am pretty much out of my reading slump, but at what cost?? This is my third 3-star book in a row and I am just about over it 😵💫
This book had too many things that annoyed me to give it more stars. It was very heavy-handed on the pop culture references (something I always hate in books because it tends to date them unless it's done really well). There were also so many references to "extremely online" things, which really annoyed me. Idk if that's hypocritical as someone who is, herself, extremely online, but when you have a character perform the same exact sea shanty that went viral on social media during the beginning of the pandemic and caused a wave of other people singing sea shanties on TikTok and Instagram for months without any reference to that viral-ness, it's a little weird, no?
I also was not a fan of the boss/employee relationship. I don't care how it's handled, there's always going to be some kid of power imbalance. Either that, or like in this case it's not addressed at all?? It was super weird and unrealistic. Especially because I find it super weird that no one else in the kitchen had any issues with the new guy showing up and all of a sudden dating the boss.
And this is nit-picky but there were some odd timeline things that I think were just missed in editing (but threw me off enough to take me out of the story). At one point Xavier said he had 2 months to get the money for Berlin. Then at the beginning of a chapter it said it had been 3 months since his and Logan's first kiss and since they'd started dating. But then!!! Later in that same chapter (or maybe the next one, I can't remember) Xavier says it's been one month since their first kiss?? This is not usually the kind of mistake you see in a book published by a major publisher, so that's why it threw me off.
I don't want this to be completely negative, so I will note some positives: I liked Logan's relationship with his daughter. And also yay for an explicitly bi male character 🙌🏻 And minus the whole boss/employee dynamic, I did think Logan and Xavier had a fun dynamic. I just couldn't get past the work part of it and how it was (not really) handled. I'm hoping I enjoy the author's other adult romance more, because that one is also sitting on my shelf waiting for me 😬
This book had too many things that annoyed me to give it more stars. It was very heavy-handed on the pop culture references (something I always hate in books because it tends to date them unless it's done really well). There were also so many references to "extremely online" things, which really annoyed me. Idk if that's hypocritical as someone who is, herself, extremely online, but when you have a character perform the same exact sea shanty that went viral on social media during the beginning of the pandemic and caused a wave of other people singing sea shanties on TikTok and Instagram for months without any reference to that viral-ness, it's a little weird, no?
I also was not a fan of the boss/employee relationship. I don't care how it's handled, there's always going to be some kid of power imbalance. Either that, or like in this case it's not addressed at all?? It was super weird and unrealistic. Especially because I find it super weird that no one else in the kitchen had any issues with the new guy showing up and all of a sudden dating the boss.
And this is nit-picky but there were some odd timeline things that I think were just missed in editing (but threw me off enough to take me out of the story). At one point Xavier said he had 2 months to get the money for Berlin. Then at the beginning of a chapter it said it had been 3 months since his and Logan's first kiss and since they'd started dating. But then!!! Later in that same chapter (or maybe the next one, I can't remember) Xavier says it's been one month since their first kiss?? This is not usually the kind of mistake you see in a book published by a major publisher, so that's why it threw me off.
I don't want this to be completely negative, so I will note some positives: I liked Logan's relationship with his daughter. And also yay for an explicitly bi male character 🙌🏻 And minus the whole boss/employee dynamic, I did think Logan and Xavier had a fun dynamic. I just couldn't get past the work part of it and how it was (not really) handled. I'm hoping I enjoy the author's other adult romance more, because that one is also sitting on my shelf waiting for me 😬
This was just…fine. I felt like there wasn’t much tension throughout the whole book despite this being enemies to lovers. It was kind of…spineless? I’m not sure if that’s the right word. But it was really low stakes, in my opinion
This was fine. It was cute. It kind of felt unfinished, though. I'm not exactly sure why but I felt a little unsatisfied by the whole thing.
Also.
Please stop putting Harry Potter references in books, I am begging you. It is way past time to let it go and move on.
Also.
Please stop putting Harry Potter references in books, I am begging you. It is way past time to let it go and move on.
I really really liked this!!! 🥰
K.A. Reynolds is so good at writing kids dealing with grief and mental illness and not being completely overtaken by those things. Her characters are always fully realized people who aren't hindered by their disabilities, but they also aren't ashamed of them. Izzy is my favorite of her protagonists so far.
She's one of my favorite MG writers and this is my favorite of her books so far as well. I can't wait to see what she writes next!
K.A. Reynolds is so good at writing kids dealing with grief and mental illness and not being completely overtaken by those things. Her characters are always fully realized people who aren't hindered by their disabilities, but they also aren't ashamed of them. Izzy is my favorite of her protagonists so far.
She's one of my favorite MG writers and this is my favorite of her books so far as well. I can't wait to see what she writes next!
This was really good! I liked the mystery, the spooky elements and the ending. Just satisfying enough to wrap everything up but also good enough to leave you wanting more
This was good for the most part but I kind of lost interest in the mystery before I got to the end
