Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - The Idea of You

I did not expect to love this book so much. I was hooked right from the beginning, I felt like I knew the characters personally and I was really rooting for them! I loved the representation of a 39yr old mother who is rediscovering herself. I loved Hayes and hope there’s a sequel so we can find out more about him as a person and how he grows in the future. Thank you Robinne for writing the story I didn’t know I needed!!

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emotional funny lighthearted sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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emotional reflective tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I would like to personally thank Robinne Lee for ruining my life by writing a story so intensely close to my fangirl daydreams that I fear I will never, ever recover.

“The Idea of You” did me in. I knew from the moment I discovered who the book was inspired by (iykyk), that I would have a total book hangover from it. For this reason, I think I put off reading it for awhile. Allowed myself some time to come to terms with… the idea of it.

The idea being that the FMC, a divorced mother of a tween, gets completely swept up in a globetrotting, all-consuming romance with the 20-year-old lead singer of the hottest boyband in the world. The very same one that her daughter is infatuated with.

Even if this wasn’t about Harry Styles—I mean, Hayes Campbell—I would have devoured it. Lee’s writing is so hypnotic, emotional, sexy, candid, witty, zealous. It felt like reading very well-written gossip, a fever dream, how the pages oozed with fame and lust and heartbreak and fantasy. The characters and their thoughts melting into your skin.

Time ceased to exist while reading this, and yet also caught up with me far too soon as I began to reach the end. Why must stories like these end? It’s really quite rude, but I guess I’ll live to read another day, somehow.

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emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

This book has been everywhere lately and I snapped it up for 99p following an email from Penguin. Where can I start? I didn't realise it was erotica when I bought it, and if I had known I wouldn't have bothered at all. I didn't enjoy it, there was so much sex in it, too much for me that I ended up skipping whole pages because of it. I almost DNF'd at one point, but carried on skipping pages until it took a darker turn and Solène had to take a serious look at the relationship and her life choices. Some reviewers have bemoaned the ending but I liked it and thought it was the right one. I must admit being mother of a 20 year old son I didn't find the relationship at all plausible, but then this book is total escapism, so maybe I shouldn't have expected any traces of reality. If you like a bit of sex with your story this is definitely not the book for you, but if you like a bit of story and a whole lot of sex then go for it!

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adventurous emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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