thecosynook's review
2.0
I'm pretty certain I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway years ago (back when the UK could enter the giveaways). I didn't really know much about it and think I was going through entering all of them in the hopes that I would win one. Therefore I pretty much went into this book blind. Side note: this is my honest review, not at all impacted by how I received the book.
In this story we follow father and daughter Harry and Maddie, through different circumstances they have decided they need to start dating again - they decide to create a pact to both actively put themselves out there and find dates.
This book for me was a bit of a drag. You know that I don't really like romance novels unless they're done really well so once I found out that the two main characters in this book were going to try and find love it immediately put me off it. There was nothing specifically bad about this book, it just didn't grip me. It wasn't really about romance, it was about various failed romances where people just seemed to moan about their inability to find love. It was just such a slow story where nothing really happened, the characters just slowly went through their lives, I didn't find anything particularly engaging throughout.
Also, there were far too many characters involved, the story definitely could have done with less characters and relationships. It needed to focus on making the reader feel connected to the two main characters, not their sisters/friends etc. I think it would have been a much better story if it had concentrated on those. In the end I felt like my attention was being pulled by too many different couples and I found that I didn't care about their relationships - and considering it is a book about relationships you can imagine how boring it was!
So overall I found the story really boring, it was only a relatively short book but it too me so long to get through it that it felt so much longer! If you like slow books about failed relationships then pick this one up. For me I think I like my romances to be more action so I just didn't vibe with this story at all (sorry)
In this story we follow father and daughter Harry and Maddie, through different circumstances they have decided they need to start dating again - they decide to create a pact to both actively put themselves out there and find dates.
This book for me was a bit of a drag. You know that I don't really like romance novels unless they're done really well so once I found out that the two main characters in this book were going to try and find love it immediately put me off it. There was nothing specifically bad about this book, it just didn't grip me. It wasn't really about romance, it was about various failed romances where people just seemed to moan about their inability to find love. It was just such a slow story where nothing really happened, the characters just slowly went through their lives, I didn't find anything particularly engaging throughout.
Also, there were far too many characters involved, the story definitely could have done with less characters and relationships. It needed to focus on making the reader feel connected to the two main characters, not their sisters/friends etc. I think it would have been a much better story if it had concentrated on those. In the end I felt like my attention was being pulled by too many different couples and I found that I didn't care about their relationships - and considering it is a book about relationships you can imagine how boring it was!
So overall I found the story really boring, it was only a relatively short book but it too me so long to get through it that it felt so much longer! If you like slow books about failed relationships then pick this one up. For me I think I like my romances to be more action so I just didn't vibe with this story at all (sorry)
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