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Super cheesy book. Just like a Hallmark movie may be a little better. The big let down of the book is the plot. It’s very sweet and simple. I wish there was a bigger climax and conflict.

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cdoubet's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-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? Yes

5.0

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jeslis's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

1.5

Notes:
- The writing... yikes. It's like it came straight out of wattpad. So much unnecessary exposition that is told through the character dialogue that sounds like it belongs to a 14 year old.
- The plot itself isn't really that great either tbh:

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the cheat sheet isn't really important other than to function as a scene generator for Nathan and Bree, Bree has no friends other than the football guys and her sister, and the wedding was just stupid — either elope properly or just wait and plan a nice wedding why rush into it??
- Only saving grace was Nathan's panic attack scene which is a trope that I love personally, but honestly it wasn't that long or complex of a moment so it wasn't as fulfilling to me as I was hoping.

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hanna's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

This was such a sweet friends-to-lovers romance! The yearning! The years of crushing!! Obsessed!!!

Bree and Nathan are so perfect together and I loved how they cared about eachother esp with Nathan's mental health issues (so good, we need more men suffering in romance).

Adams is so good at writing closed-door romances, in comparison to other books it really doesn't feel like you miss much. The Big Emotions we often get in smut scenes are just put somewhere else here and I loved those scenes just as much!

Disclaimer about why I gave 4 stars: there is some girl-on-girl hate (which almost comes with the territory with the boy-girl-besties thing) and Bree is a bit pick-me at times. But it's not as bad as other books I've read, just a teeny bit annoying.

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lenaricharz's review against another edition

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lighthearted

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

3.0

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things100's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I don’t know it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great either like I knew going into it there would be no smut so that part didn’t surprise me. What annoyed me was the fmc she really gave pick me vibes and ya sure she did get slightly better but it was just weird like I don’t care how awful you think your best friends current gf is she was really out here like he’ll always choose me and admits that she’s been in love with him since they first became friends like that’s weird behavior for someone to have for a friend. And it drove me insane with the whole calling her Bree cheese like why so many why’s. And then I guess it’s fine if you want to wait until marriage like it made sense that he hadn’t been sleeping with other women for a while because he finally accepted that he loved his best friend but it was a bit odd that mr manwhore now wanted to wait until they were married. I don’t know I finished it and it got slightly better but I wasn’t a huge fan

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abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

2.0

This was just okay. I wasn't wowed. Actually, I was kinda annoyed throughout the whole book. The first is a writing style choice which really bugged me: why on earth are you capitalizing random words? Why are you using multiple exclamation marks? Are we texting our friends? No! We're writing a book! Do better. The other that irked me: Bree. She spent half the book whining about how she couldn't ever have Nathan and how much it will hurt when she loses him. I wanted to slap her in the face and tell her to get a hold of herself and just communicate. But no, she had to go on whining.

So yeah, I will not be reading this again. Everything was so dramatic and overdone.

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mwmason01's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing 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

4.5

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