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I didn't expect much from the book, given it's fairly short and I got if for free on Stuff Your Kindle Day. And it's not a bad book per se but it is also just... Not good. I enjoyed the very inclusive bisexuality, that was nice.

Other than that... I've seen puddles deeper than this. And that's fine. It's a Hallmark Christmas Movie book. Bland characters with even blander best friends who have witty one-liners and a seemingly endless amount of patience and time.
We all knew how this book was gonna end and there'd be shenanigans in-between. Honestly, the book might as well be called "five times Jemma had a bad date and one time she didn't"

As many have pointed out, the timeline makes no sense. How does she apply for the service on January 15 but has her first date on New Year's Eve? Why would it take the best Matchmaker ever nearly an entire year to find a date and then screw that one up so badly. And then Jemma has like four dates in four weeks while apparently also doing interviews for her movie (that we never learn anything about it annoyed me to no end).

Also, and here's a spoiler maybe, I couldn't stop thinking about the date at the wildlife sanctuary. For many, many reasons.
Jemma gets attacked by a bird of prey, it's so bad she's at the ER (with her Matchmaker? Where is the owner of the sanctuary? The employee who showed them around?) and she gets a treatment plan for the next days and weeks and Matchmaker Eve says its a serious wound - AND YET SHE STILL SETS HER UP FOR AN EFFING SURFING DATE TWO DAYS LATER! I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure that sporty activities and freaking salt water aren't great for the healing process of a wound that was deep and bleeding.

Plus... Imagine a super rich young woman books into your wildlife center to go on a day with an up and coming Hollywood starlet and your employee gives them a private tour and then a freaking bird of prey attacks the starlet and your employee runs away.
The PR nightmare. What even!

I didn't have the spelling or formatting issues many people mentioned, so maybe that got fixed.

eli0707's review

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2.0

It was kind of rushed and sometimes just very random. Also it felt like a relationship between teenagers and not between adult women

asreadbylou's review

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fast-paced

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

1.5

The book is not well written. There were sentences that didn’t make sense. The dates in the book were wrong for the timeline they were writing. Plus then I’d the timeframe given within the writing is correct, there’s a random time jump of a month in the space of a sentence. And the only “sex scene” - if we can call it that - happened in the last 2 pages of the book and lasted really about a sentence. It was overall bad. The plot had so much promise. I’m glad I got it for free in the kindle day