darkndani's review against another edition
4.0
Another Christina Lauren hit!
The story concept was super cute and executed perfectly. It's one of those romance books where you know exactly what's going to happen, but you don't mind because its just so cute and fun along the way!
My favorite part about this book was the fact that Jess is a single mom in her 30s. And River was absolutely precious with her daughter Juno! For someone who doesn't want kids, I sure am a sucker for a guy who is great with kids LOL.
The story concept was super cute and executed perfectly. It's one of those romance books where you know exactly what's going to happen, but you don't mind because its just so cute and fun along the way!
My favorite part about this book was the fact that Jess is a single mom in her 30s. And River was absolutely precious with her daughter Juno! For someone who doesn't want kids, I sure am a sucker for a guy who is great with kids LOL.
laceydbell's review against another edition
4.0
**4.5!**
Super cute! Romance happens just a little quickly, but I loved this. And the ending was perfection.
Super cute! Romance happens just a little quickly, but I loved this. And the ending was perfection.
achaperonwrites's review against another edition
4.0
“She’d never needed anyone except her tiny circle. She didn’t know if she was even capable of trust-falling backward into anyone else’s arms.”
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sri_savita's review against another edition
5.0
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. Finally, another CL book for me to love since I read The Unhoneymooners this one might have even sneaked ahead of that one in terms of the favorites rankings because OH MY HEART this was perfect for a data scientist like me. I loved every minute of it and River is perfect, as are his interactions with Jess's family, and her interactions with his sisters, and I love Fizzy and want to be best friends with her too. There wasn't a lot of misunderstanding or drama here which I LOVED, the angst and pining was controlled, and I totally understood the conflict and the difficulty with learning to balance all the stuff that River and Jess try to balance and the way they openly talk about navigating it all and enjoying those quiet mundane moments too. It felt REAL. This is just a big run-on paragraph because I'm so squishy happy right now. I'm not sure why I put this down for so long! A forever favorite, and I'm glad to have it on my shelf.
dorotejal's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
5.0
I have nothing against predictable romance books, but this wasn't. I really love the relationship between science and love in this book.
sueread2030's review against another edition
2.0
There is one clear thing I want to make here One side POV does not work anymore in Romance in 2023
This is going to be one of my "I liked it but I would never recommend it" unless someone wanted a quick 2-hour read.
I loved the Science aspect of the book and the question it poses "Can Science and Data help us find our soulmates?" Maybe in the future
And it was clear that the writer heavily researched the topic to the point that she almost convinced me of the idea.
However, the plot was so cliche and predictable it wasn't entertaining. It is never fun when you are reading and you go "I bet this and that will happen" then "oh! look! it happened!".
This type of story would have been tolerable back in 2000 or 2010, but not in 2022 (the year this was published) because I am so fed up with"
He is the smart, rich, hot successful business/Science man who turns everything he touches into gold
she is the ordinary single mother with shitty parents, an awful ex, and a loser career.
and get this: There is actually a character called "Butkis" who is married to someone named "Seaman"!!
not only that, the lame Dad-jokes that took place on p:200!
add to that the one thing I hate the most in romance books, "the meddling best friend" who is 35 yrs old and thinks that a good fuck is all you need to end world hunger with a line like my vagina just unfurled like a flower
This is a 385 pages book all from Jess's POV (except for the longest 3o pages epilogue of River's which was pointless), the whole story was told from Jess's perspective. But the book is about the experiment of finding your Soulmate through science, so we needed River's POV throughout the book!
we did not get that. What we get instead are fillers, useless plotlines that did not add anything to the story.
There is also a twist where Jess discovers something very important due to her statistical mind and academia, but later River never considers making her join his team???? she practically saved his project!
Because of all these, this book was heading into a disaster of my 1-star reviews shelf.
However, what saved it was two things
1- the detailed scientific aspects
2- the ending (I do not want to spoil)
one star for each making it 2
This is going to be one of my "I liked it but I would never recommend it" unless someone wanted a quick 2-hour read.
I loved the Science aspect of the book and the question it poses "Can Science and Data help us find our soulmates?" Maybe in the future
And it was clear that the writer heavily researched the topic to the point that she almost convinced me of the idea.
However, the plot was so cliche and predictable it wasn't entertaining. It is never fun when you are reading and you go "I bet this and that will happen" then "oh! look! it happened!".
This type of story would have been tolerable back in 2000 or 2010, but not in 2022 (the year this was published) because I am so fed up with"
He is the smart, rich, hot successful business/Science man who turns everything he touches into gold
she is the ordinary single mother with shitty parents, an awful ex, and a loser career.
and get this: There is actually a character called "Butkis" who is married to someone named "Seaman"!!
not only that, the lame Dad-jokes that took place on p:200!
add to that the one thing I hate the most in romance books, "the meddling best friend" who is 35 yrs old and thinks that a good fuck is all you need to end world hunger with a line like my vagina just unfurled like a flower
This is a 385 pages book all from Jess's POV (except for the longest 3o pages epilogue of River's which was pointless), the whole story was told from Jess's perspective. But the book is about the experiment of finding your Soulmate through science, so we needed River's POV throughout the book!
we did not get that. What we get instead are fillers, useless plotlines that did not add anything to the story.
There is also a twist where Jess discovers something very important due to her statistical mind and academia, but later River never considers making her join his team???? she practically saved his project!
Because of all these, this book was heading into a disaster of my 1-star reviews shelf.
However, what saved it was two things
1- the detailed scientific aspects
2- the ending (I do not want to spoil)
one star for each making it 2
bjbatton's review against another edition
lighthearted
slow-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
3.0
amyep__'s review against another edition
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
rosameertens's review against another edition
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
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
3.5