This is an honest review in exchange for an ARC.

The premise of Looking for a Sign is fun and would have made for a great a romcom—a race to date each zodiac sign before the impending Saturn Return—except the main character was so unlikeable, I ended up struggling to finish and found myself increasingly frustrated with her snail's pace character development. 

Of course, I was expecting the majority of characters to be caricatures of the zodiac signs. There's no way the book could fit that many side narratives. But unfortunately, Gray, our Aries MC didn't expand much beyond her immature, hardheaded impulsivity. For the whole book, she's driven by a desire for a big, happy family, white picket fence and all. She thinks that if she can just find her soulmate—or get on the path to finding her soulmate before her 29th birthday, she'll be back on track to having multiple children by her early 30s with the perfect wife. Even by the time she realized she was being selfish

asking her best friend to delay trying for a second baby so that they could be pregnant together, quitting after one date with her boss and saying they're destined to start a family. Also, she is pretty insecure and doesn't want to date people who are hotter or more successful than her.

Basically,  this woman is as delulu as a twenty-one-year-old BYU-Idaho student who's stressing that she isn't engaged before graduation. By the end,

she says she's signed up for her first therapy appointment, but someone everyone ends up apologizing to her and telling her she just needs to try to woo her boss one more time, because she's obviously in love with her.

 

Meanwhile, I did love her love interest—but she was simply too good for our main character. There is a point when I was cheering for her FINALLY calling out our MC's behavior, but within 48 hours it flips, they're back together again, and then the book is over. 

The pros of this book? The side characters who WERE developed were fun and interesting. The bad dates in this dating challenge were cringe-worthy hilarious. And I could gossip about the main character like she was a train-wreck of a person in my life. When a couple friends asked me what were some redeeming qualities of our MC, I thought real hard and eventually all I had to say was: she is really good at her PR job.

Ultimately, if you like watching someone make hilariously bad decisions, this is a book for you. If you feel really weird about seeing a queer person freaking out about their ticking biological clock at the young age of 29... pass.