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literarymary95's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
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
4.0
I thought this book was really funny and great banter. The story itself was really interesting, which kept me reading, especially from the start of the story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Vomit
Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Minor: Fatphobia and Alcohol
heftsi's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
kelseyfontaine'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
3.75
This book was a lighthearted, classic enemies-to-lovers romcom. While the trope isn’t typically my favorite, I did enjoy it overall as an easy read. It definitely went slow at first, but it picked up toward the end. I absolutely loved the tropical setting, so that helped me get into it a lot more. However, once Olive and Ethan got back to Minnesota, I didn’t enjoy it as much. Olive being complacent with Ethan calling her a liar about Dane, and easily forgiving him in less than 5 sentences really rubbed me the wrong way. After that moment, I couldn’t get behind their romance as much. Not to mention, there were some cheesy lines, and the whole “arguing with each other” thing and calling one another the wrong name started to get old. Compared to other, newer books by Christina Lauren, this didn’t quite meet the bar for me. But, it was an easygoing summer read that did have a lot of good qualities as well.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, and Vomit
Moderate: Body shaming, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Minor: Fatphobia and Alcohol
tvsmylife's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
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
3.75
Funny enemies to lovers relationship. Character growth on both sides. Secondary plot takes over last third of book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit
Moderate: Toxic relationship
midnightmoon_dreamer's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol
Minor: Sexual content
librosdeunamestiza's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Mi corazón necesitaba una comedia romántica y este libro cumplió y llegó justo!
Tiene “enemies to lovers”, he fell first, fake dating, de todoooo.
La narración es muy ligera, se lee volando. Apenas lo empecé leí 200 páginas de una, que para mí es una locura.
Narrado en primera persona, con capítulos cortos, escenas divertidas y muuucho romance. Amé.
Tuvo un par de cosas hacia el final que para mí no lo hicieron un libro de 5 estrellas, como los problemas de comunicación. Me desespera mucho cuando pasa y no creo que sume nada.
La protagonista es una mujer fuerte, inteligente, terca, sobrepensadora y pesimista con la que muchas veces es fácil identificarse, pero por momentos te da ganas de meterte al libro y hacerla entrar en razón.
Me enamoré totalmente del interés romántico, de sus palabras y su lenguaje amoroso.
La química entre los protagonistas es un 10/10, hay mucha tensión y risas.
No llega a ser +18 pero sí hay contenido maduro.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Alcohol
ak25's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.5
I liked parts of this but the male characters were kind of horrible.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Gaslighting
andale's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
sabrinabeschke's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol
Moderate: Infidelity and Toxic relationship
Minor: Body shaming and Sexual content
belletheblogger's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
The writing style took some time to get used to b/c the mc talks with parenthesis and kind of breaks the fourth wall. I also was so stressed about Ethan not believing that Dane hit on Olive and the whole rant Ami had when Olive told her that Dane had been cheating on her that I literally stayed up until 2am to finish the book and get through it. I don’t like that there was no resolution or real conversation between Olive and Ami or Ethan and Olive. I also think it was weird how Ethan and Olives relationship went from hating each other to in love within 5 days . the tension was good but I feel like the characters and the story lacked depth. Also wtf was the whole plotline with the Hamiltons???? Like that one scene when Olive got fired was so weird and then when they ran into each other at the restaurant and the wife was mad at Hamilton? Like why would Molly be mad about anything related to his business and also idk how i feel about Olive getting fired. I also don’t love when there’s so much tension and then they close the door in adult romances but whatever.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Toxic relationship