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Too Good to Be Real by Melonie Johnson

ashton_walston's review

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funny lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

achaperonwrites's review against another edition

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4.0

“‘Wow,’ Kat said. ‘One week at this place is better than a year of therapy. Who knew pretending to be in a rom-com would lead to all these breakthroughs about our relationship issues?’”

momoj8's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

meromenesko's review against another edition

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The premise got odd for me when they started to be fake to each other within the rom-com game...

mikaylaslibrary's review against another edition

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3.5

I didn't love this as much as I hoped. It was good, and the storyline was really interesting, but I ended up skimming though the last few chapters because I wanted to get through it. 

kirtreads's review against another edition

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Started on vacation, and it just wasn’t hitting. I thought the premise was fun but it was one of those “she doesn’t really know who I am” books and I just don’t vibe with that

katekate_reads_'s review against another edition

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3.0

If you could go to a resort that offered a rom-com experience, would you be interested? Julia goes to write about it in an attempt to keep her job and brings along a couple friends.

Luke is one of the designers of the experience and they are finally ready to open to the public - and then learn the added pressure of a reporter attending their first week. Luke decides he needs to pretend to be a guest to keep an eye on things.

Things proceed exactly as you’d expect and that doesn’t bother me. I was along for the ride. But I never really felt chemistry between them and found it hard to believe their declarations of love after just a few days. I loved the references to movies but think I will quickly forget this one.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the advance reading copy.

s_lesley's review against another edition

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3.0

This was....fine. Cute premise. I wanted to like it more than I actually did. I liked finding all the romcom references (there were so many!), but it didn't match up with my expectations of a LARPing vacation or how I expected them to be written in. And I don't think I liked any of the main characters....unsure?

jillsta's review against another edition

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4.0

This was fun, swoony, and an homage to romcoms.

bia_reicht's review against another edition

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Too cheesy