gingerbiscuit's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It was a slow start for me, but once I got into it I finished it fairly quickly. The writing is good and the story is relaxing and entertaining which makes for a good holiday read, as long as you can get past the first couple of chapters.
Minor: Body shaming
psliz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Body shaming, Vomit, Gaslighting, Ableism, Infidelity, Fatphobia, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
leahfoko's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I do however have complaints with everything involving Dane. I was high key stressed by everyone gaslighting Olive about Dane. Spoiler territory about how this was resolved that I had issues with.
Spoiler
I will say what brought my rating down so far was that I felt the resolution between Olive and Ethan after the fallout of the literal gaslighting and not believing her about his dude bro brother that he was doing was kind of lackluster and incomplete feeling for me. I felt like he barely apologized for believing she was lying and gaslighting her basically about how she is just so negative and sees the negative in everyone. I was like, are you kidding me? Idk I felt like he said like one line about how he was going to regret not believing her for a long time and she was just like, okay that’s fine then. I felt like I needed more groveling from him or like a more thorough acknowledgment of what he did wrong and I was a little disappointed that we didn’t get that. I just felt like it wrapped up too fast. Also, it was always excused as “well he loves his brother and can’t imagine he’d do anything wrong” and I have two issues with this. One, if my brother was being a lil shit and doing what Dane was doing I would’ve immediately questioned him on it. I wouldn’t have just gone along with it because he’s my brother and I love him. I can sort of understand why he wouldn’t be inclined to believe Olive about the flirting thing at the bar who he hasn’t known as long because he could think she read it wrong but he has been around Dane all this time and should’ve known something was not adding up and called him on it. I don’t feel that brotherly love excuses it. And in that thread and context of the story is my second point. Olive was willing to acknowledge that maybe her sister had known about this and maybe she was wrong. Olive was willing to admit that she might be wrong and give him the benefit of the doubt. And he continued to do the wrong thing. Ethan wasn’t really giving Olive the benefit of the doubt ever. And then it just worked out at the end? I just really felt like he handled that whole thing horribly and the fact that they went back to normal happy trust almost immediately just drove me crazy. This relationship has already hit one of the biggest trust hurdles and they just said well, too bad, the sex is good? I just did not like the way their relationship got fixed way too easily.I loved Olive and Ami’s family, I found them all so wonderful and appreciated the latina main characters. I enjoyed the show down™️ at Ami’s house near the end. I love fake marriage tropes. I love enemies to lovers tropes. I enjoyed all this stuff. So overall I enjoyed the book. But that stuff with Ethan fully not believing Olive about his brother was just not it for me. 3 stars.
Graphic: Infidelity, Gaslighting, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Body shaming
ekatayama's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Infidelity
Moderate: Body shaming
izzieisaloser's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
SPOILERS AHEAD
I think that Olive really needed the character development.
Also was Ethan completely dumb he thought that Dane leaving Ami on things like valentine’s day and their anniversary ment that Dane though that they had nothing planned??? And that they weren’t serious until HE PROPOSED!! Was he even listening to the bull shit he was spewing??
And when she saw her future boss why didn’t she pretend to be Ami and be like “yeh sorry definitely not Olive I’m Ami her twin sister” I feel like that would of work out 1000 times better?? Or am I just being dumb and that wouldn’t of worked??
I think Ethan proposing was cute. I think that books don’t always have to end with them getting engaged or married or having a baby but I think it fit for this one. You know with them being back where it started it’s cute.
Graphic: Body shaming, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Vomit
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Gaslighting
shaylee_n_20's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Alcohol
jamespotterluv's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Misogyny, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia
the authors rlly hate gay ppl what can i say.livaausma's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Infidelity and Body shaming
lchambers394's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Body shaming, Infidelity, Vomit, and Sexual content
yunsq's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Infidelity and Vomit
Moderate: Body shaming, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship