nerdyprettythings's Reviews (515)

This book is so cute! I love love LOVE that the leads are 38 and 40, gimme that slightly older, more of a dating past, more believable ever after any day. If you read Stetz-Waters’s last book, there are some cute easter eggs in here, but won’t at all be distracting if you haven’t read it. I do feel like there may be one or two too many “oh no this thing that happened will ruin everything!”s in here, but I had a great time with it and I loved the MCs.

A couple of these missed the mark for me, but most of them are five stars, and I can’t wait to read Adjei-Brenyah’s novel! 

I may come back to this at some point, but I am not vibing with it. It’s pretty boring to me, and from the cover I expected it to be an adult’s story, and so far I’ve just gotten fish out of water child. 

First book of the year and it’s a weird one! I really liked it. A lot of people compare it to Atwood, but it was giving me Piranesi - you spend a lot of time wondering wtf is happening, but not for lack of descriptions of what’s happening. I also really enjoyed the way the MC fell into 1st person plural. When the community is so weird and secluded and a little sinister, everyone’s actions are collective actions.

I loved it. It’s so much fun, so goofy, just a great time. You can go on a sapphic adventure, find yourself in an Austen-esque high society, a Rebecca-esque gothic, and several other fun (and funny) ends. This was a great time. 

This book was fun. The author casts himself as a Forrest Gump-type, placing himself in the middle of the biggest moments in restaurants in NYC, and for the most part, you feel like he’s telling you his real story as he remembers it, even when he’s dropping big names. He also goes pretty deep on his personal life, which sometimes felt strangely out of order with the rest of the story (he jumps hard from 2008 to 9/11/2001 at one point), but did add a lot to deepen a book which was laden with anecdotes from his days dealing with huge personalities.