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mk_meow's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
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
3.5
3.5🌶️
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Grief and Abandonment
relin's review against another edition
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.75
Cute story of falling for your best friend with some good chaos in there.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Grief
Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual assault, and Classism
Minor: Death of parent
unclear if one of the scenes is sexual assault or not.niita's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This book emotionally devastated me!! Rahul is the perfect man! Perfect in every way and I’m so glad Jasmine finally got around to seeing it! The spice 🌶️🌶️ was honestly great too! Talia Hibbert is about to become one of my favorite romance authors!!! ❤️
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
traceyanderson's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
fast-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
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Grief, and Alcohol
peachmoni's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Grief
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Abandonment and Injury/Injury detail
readingwithtemperance's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
medium-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
4.5
Jasmine absolutely infuriated me while simultaneously making me want to give her the biggest hug. I loved her though and I can absolutely understand her pain/why she is the way she is. I saw a bit of myself in her. Mommy issue abandonment twinsies and all that.
I am just so incredibly proud of her for doing the work and taking care of herself. And for TRYING.And for admitting she needs help and taking that help and applying what she learns in therapy into her every day life. Ngl i do wish we got to sit in for some of those sessions.
Rahul was so kind and patient with Jasmine. It warmed my heart how much he deeply cared for her and wanted her to be happy above all else.That man WAITED for SEVEN years. Not even waiting for HER to feel the same. But just BEING THERE and being the absolute best friend ever. MY HEART.
The ending was so so sweet.I loved the 7 years later/getting to see their son. And to watch them have such a mundane and intimite moment and just still be so head over heels for eachother. I was sobbing at how beautiful it all was. What more could you want than to build a life with your best friend?
Talia I love you so much. I swear you do no wrong.
I am just so incredibly proud of her for doing the work and taking care of herself. And for TRYING.
Rahul was so kind and patient with Jasmine. It warmed my heart how much he deeply cared for her and wanted her to be happy above all else.
The ending was so so sweet.
Talia I love you so much. I swear you do no wrong.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Abandonment
Moderate: Grief and Death of parent
mayareadsxo's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
weelasswithabook's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
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
5.0
CW graphic sexual content, parental abandonment, death of a parent, alcoholism/alcohol dependency
🌟 Friends to lovers
🌟 BIPOC Interracial romance
🌟 Forced proximity/flatmates
🌟 Cinnamon roll hero
🌈 Queer heroine
🌈 Black heroine
🌈 Muslim hero
She just never misses, does she?
I absolutely adored this friends to lovers novel about two best friends who have been forced to room. Rahul has is BAAAAAAD. If you live for a pining hero, then this is right up your street.
Sometimes a friends to lovers after a decade of pining can give "he's friends with her because he thinks he has a shot", but this was done so expertly that it was clear he was trying his best, he never pushed boundaries or disrespected her, and he genuinely continued to be her ride or die bestie.
Jasmine broke my heart, not gonna lie, her sense of self worth and being deserving of love tore me up. But she was just so good and she just couldn't see it 😭
This had such a perfect balance of sweet and tender moments, gut wrenching sad moment, hella spicy moments, and laugh out loud moments. It's hard to fit all of that into less than 400 pages without letting something drop somewhere, and it had it all in abundance. Plus a mini insight into codependency between friends and/or lovers was thrown in there too.
You need to read this if you love a solid friends to lovers book, where the friendship is literally a genuine friendship. If the prickly heroine and cinnamon roll hero due is your favourite combo, it's also ideal because they're so unbelievably different, but they just work so well!!!
🌟 Friends to lovers
🌟 BIPOC Interracial romance
🌟 Forced proximity/flatmates
🌟 Cinnamon roll hero
🌈 Queer heroine
🌈 Black heroine
🌈 Muslim hero
She just never misses, does she?
I absolutely adored this friends to lovers novel about two best friends who have been forced to room. Rahul has is BAAAAAAD. If you live for a pining hero, then this is right up your street.
Sometimes a friends to lovers after a decade of pining can give "he's friends with her because he thinks he has a shot", but this was done so expertly that it was clear he was trying his best, he never pushed boundaries or disrespected her, and he genuinely continued to be her ride or die bestie.
Jasmine broke my heart, not gonna lie, her sense of self worth and being deserving of love tore me up. But she was just so good and she just couldn't see it 😭
This had such a perfect balance of sweet and tender moments, gut wrenching sad moment, hella spicy moments, and laugh out loud moments. It's hard to fit all of that into less than 400 pages without letting something drop somewhere, and it had it all in abundance. Plus a mini insight into codependency between friends and/or lovers was thrown in there too.
You need to read this if you love a solid friends to lovers book, where the friendship is literally a genuine friendship. If the prickly heroine and cinnamon roll hero due is your favourite combo, it's also ideal because they're so unbelievably different, but they just work so well!!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Moderate: Grief
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
jillkaarlela's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
This book is giving “Me to You” by Grace Enger, but not in a good way. (With Rahul as the narrator/perspective of the song)
Age rating: 18+ (7 steamy chapters, 3/5🌶️)
This was by far my least favorite of Talia Hibbert’s books. I am just not a fan of “reformed player”/commitment-phobe trope in this instance, the FMC only sleeps around and she starts wanting the MMC again but only as friends-with-benefits even though she knows that’s not what he wants because he actually wants a relationship. She just can’t have both him as your best friend and casual hookups because he can’t be casual about you and you know that, so you can’t have both. She wants all of the benefits of dating (more than just hooking up) but not calling it that. There were just a lot of instances where she seemed cavalier with him and I didn’t love that. She was also just very emotionally unavailable, in my opinion, throughout the story. She also doesn’t seem like a very good friend in general, she can be quite selfish, self-centered, and flighty and it makes me so annoyed. Because of these issues with the dynamic between the FMC and the MMC, I didn’t really find myself rooting for her, and I was mostly just trying to finish the book, which was very disappointing for me. I’m not saying this book was bad at all, it was just very much not for me.
CW: grief, death of parent, alcoholism
Age rating: 18+ (7 steamy chapters, 3/5🌶️)
This was by far my least favorite of Talia Hibbert’s books. I am just not a fan of “reformed player”/commitment-phobe trope in this instance, the FMC only sleeps around and she starts wanting the MMC again but only as friends-with-benefits even though she knows that’s not what he wants because he actually wants a relationship. She just can’t have both him as your best friend and casual hookups because he can’t be casual about you and you know that, so you can’t have both. She wants all of the benefits of dating (more than just hooking up) but not calling it that. There were just a lot of instances where she seemed cavalier with him and I didn’t love that. She was also just very emotionally unavailable, in my opinion, throughout the story. She also doesn’t seem like a very good friend in general, she can be quite selfish, self-centered, and flighty and it makes me so annoyed. Because of these issues with the dynamic between the FMC and the MMC, I didn’t really find myself rooting for her, and I was mostly just trying to finish the book, which was very disappointing for me. I’m not saying this book was bad at all, it was just very much not for me.
CW: grief, death of parent, alcoholism
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
reads2cope's review against another edition
4.5
Wish I had read this rather than listened to it, but the audiobook was available from my library (LOVE YOU LIBBY) before the eBook. The book was read by an older white British man (Matthew Lloyd Davies/Cornell Collins), despite the two POVs being a Black British woman and a British-Indian man in their late 20s. The narrator made Rahul sound like an Indian grandpa. The Indian accent was actually offensive - not only was it pretty clear that Rahul grew up in England, but the accent was inconsistent and strange. I thought it couldn’t get worse, but then I heard how he voiced Rahul’s mom and whatever that accent was that he gave Pinal. However, I love Talia Hibbert, so I powered through and totally enjoyed the story and characters. I plan to reread as a physical or eBook in the future!
I normally take a star off for a third-act breaks up, but this one was handled so well I was almost convinced they needed it!
I normally take a star off for a third-act breaks up, but this one was handled so well I was almost convinced they needed it!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail