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Quick Stats
Age Rating: 13+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
I absolutely adored this book. I am, at my core, a lover of holiday romances, and I especially love to see ones that center holidays other than Christmas. I adored Hannah Reynolds’ debut, so I had high hopes for this one, and they were met!
Eight Nights of Flirting is a Hanukkah romcom with flirting lessons and childhood crush-to-lovers aspects. It takes place in the same Nantucket mansion as The Summer of Lost Letters, but this book focuses on Noah’s cousin. I loved seeing the characters I got to know in TSOLL, but this book can easily be read as a standalone.
The banter and chemistry between Shira and Tyler was unmatched, and every single thing about this book was just so much fun. Shira’s main goal for Hanukkah is to get a boyfriend, and I tend to find books that follow that plotkine to be shallow and immature, but Shira had so much else to her than that single desire. She wanted a boyfriend, but she was a fully-formed person outside of that as well, so it came off as realistic and honest instead of cliche and shallow.
At first I wasn’t sure how to feel about Tyler. I’m not usually a fan of characters who fall into the “playboy” stereotype. However he never felt sleazy or shallow to me, and he really did grow on me, especially as we began to see beneath the facade he puts on.
One of my favorite aspect’s of Hannah Reynolds’s books is how she seamlessly blends a historical aspect into her work. In her debut, Abby was trying to solve the mystery of her grandmother’s childhood. In Eight Nights of Flirting, Shira and Tyler are looking further back into history to learn about the origin of a mysterious box of belongings they found hidden in the mansion’s attic. I love learning about the history of Nantucket as the characters do, and I love the extra intrigue the mystery brings to the story.
This book had me hooked from the beginning, and I think it’s going to be one I reread next holiday season as well.
Age Rating: 13+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
I absolutely adored this book. I am, at my core, a lover of holiday romances, and I especially love to see ones that center holidays other than Christmas. I adored Hannah Reynolds’ debut, so I had high hopes for this one, and they were met!
Eight Nights of Flirting is a Hanukkah romcom with flirting lessons and childhood crush-to-lovers aspects. It takes place in the same Nantucket mansion as The Summer of Lost Letters, but this book focuses on Noah’s cousin. I loved seeing the characters I got to know in TSOLL, but this book can easily be read as a standalone.
The banter and chemistry between Shira and Tyler was unmatched, and every single thing about this book was just so much fun. Shira’s main goal for Hanukkah is to get a boyfriend, and I tend to find books that follow that plotkine to be shallow and immature, but Shira had so much else to her than that single desire. She wanted a boyfriend, but she was a fully-formed person outside of that as well, so it came off as realistic and honest instead of cliche and shallow.
At first I wasn’t sure how to feel about Tyler. I’m not usually a fan of characters who fall into the “playboy” stereotype. However he never felt sleazy or shallow to me, and he really did grow on me, especially as we began to see beneath the facade he puts on.
One of my favorite aspect’s of Hannah Reynolds’s books is how she seamlessly blends a historical aspect into her work. In her debut, Abby was trying to solve the mystery of her grandmother’s childhood. In Eight Nights of Flirting, Shira and Tyler are looking further back into history to learn about the origin of a mysterious box of belongings they found hidden in the mansion’s attic. I love learning about the history of Nantucket as the characters do, and I love the extra intrigue the mystery brings to the story.
This book had me hooked from the beginning, and I think it’s going to be one I reread next holiday season as well.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
<i>Quick Stats</i>
<b>Age Rating: 18+</b>
Over All: 4.25 stars
Plot: 4.5/5
Characters: 4/5
Setting: 4,5/5
Writing: 4/5
<i>Thank you so much Berkley Romance for sending me a copy of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.</i>
I’m not quite sure why, considering I am a single, unmarried, 20 year old community college student, but one of my favorite premises in a romance novel is a married couple fixing their relationship. There’s just something about it that gives me every single possible emotion, and leaves me feeling so warm and fuzzy in the end. This book was no exception.
This is Wibbroka’s sophomore adult novel, and while I enjoyed The Roughest Draft a little bit more, this was a really great read.
I really liked how in depth we got into Eliza’s backstory and character development in that sense. I do think that, comparatively, Graham was a little lacking, and they both could have used a little more <i>emotional</i> development, but they were both engaging characters that it was impossible not to root for. I was so invested in them and their relationships. I also absolutely adored Daniel. He was an amazing supporting character and I would simply die to read a book about him finding his own love story.
The premise of the book had me very intrigued from the first time I read the blurb. A married couple pretends not to know each other in order to rekindle the spark in their relationship? Sign me up. It definitely reminded me of Phil and Claire’s little anniversary schtik in <i>Modern Family</i>, and while I adore <i>Modern Family</i>, I was a little apprehensive as to how that could be executed outside of a sitcom, in a more serious manner. I had no reason to worry though, because Wibbroka managed to balance the inherently weird and comical aspects of this idea with the serious nature of repairing a struggling relationship. Sometimes it was fun and lighthearted, like the banter or the boxing class, but there were also a lot of emotional and real conversations had as well. I truly believed that it was possible for them to fix their relationship while engaging in this game. I think that this premise and the plot were the most compelling parts of the book, and it more than made up for the somewhat shallow emotional development of the characters themselves and the general…lack of development in Graham all around.
Wibbroka’s adult debut, and this book as well, are often compared to Emily Henry, and while I see where the comparisons come from, I think it does these books a disservice. Emily Henry’s books are so character driven. Her characters are so fully developed and emotionally engaging that you could read 400 pages of them without any plot at all. Whereas this book (and TRD) may be lacking, comparatively, in the character department, but that’s okay because the plot and premise is the driving force behind it. Standing on its own, this book is great, but you can’t go into it expecting a character driven novel, because that’s not what it is.
I definitely recommend this book, and I can’t wait to see what Wibbroka come out with next. I’m so hyped for their next YA book releasing in a few months.
<b>Age Rating: 18+</b>
Over All: 4.25 stars
Plot: 4.5/5
Characters: 4/5
Setting: 4,5/5
Writing: 4/5
<i>Thank you so much Berkley Romance for sending me a copy of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.</i>
I’m not quite sure why, considering I am a single, unmarried, 20 year old community college student, but one of my favorite premises in a romance novel is a married couple fixing their relationship. There’s just something about it that gives me every single possible emotion, and leaves me feeling so warm and fuzzy in the end. This book was no exception.
This is Wibbroka’s sophomore adult novel, and while I enjoyed The Roughest Draft a little bit more, this was a really great read.
I really liked how in depth we got into Eliza’s backstory and character development in that sense. I do think that, comparatively, Graham was a little lacking, and they both could have used a little more <i>emotional</i> development, but they were both engaging characters that it was impossible not to root for. I was so invested in them and their relationships. I also absolutely adored Daniel. He was an amazing supporting character and I would simply die to read a book about him finding his own love story.
The premise of the book had me very intrigued from the first time I read the blurb. A married couple pretends not to know each other in order to rekindle the spark in their relationship? Sign me up. It definitely reminded me of Phil and Claire’s little anniversary schtik in <i>Modern Family</i>, and while I adore <i>Modern Family</i>, I was a little apprehensive as to how that could be executed outside of a sitcom, in a more serious manner. I had no reason to worry though, because Wibbroka managed to balance the inherently weird and comical aspects of this idea with the serious nature of repairing a struggling relationship. Sometimes it was fun and lighthearted, like the banter or the boxing class, but there were also a lot of emotional and real conversations had as well. I truly believed that it was possible for them to fix their relationship while engaging in this game. I think that this premise and the plot were the most compelling parts of the book, and it more than made up for the somewhat shallow emotional development of the characters themselves and the general…lack of development in Graham all around.
Wibbroka’s adult debut, and this book as well, are often compared to Emily Henry, and while I see where the comparisons come from, I think it does these books a disservice. Emily Henry’s books are so character driven. Her characters are so fully developed and emotionally engaging that you could read 400 pages of them without any plot at all. Whereas this book (and TRD) may be lacking, comparatively, in the character department, but that’s okay because the plot and premise is the driving force behind it. Standing on its own, this book is great, but you can’t go into it expecting a character driven novel, because that’s not what it is.
I definitely recommend this book, and I can’t wait to see what Wibbroka come out with next. I’m so hyped for their next YA book releasing in a few months.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content