Reviews

Halfway Girl by Tessa Bailey

ssarahreads's review

4.0

4-4.5 stars!

Loved the hero. He sounded very yummy from the description we got.
Would love to read more about this couple though - it was too short. :(

I listened to it for free (!!!!) on the Read Me Romance Podcast!

balyeska's review

1.0

this was like a jessa kane book(but somehow worse)

evetheplanner's review

funny lighthearted relaxing

3.5

steca2's review

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

Another insta-love and wonky timeline… the author completely ignores the timeline she made in getaway girl for this book. But ignoring that, I really liked this one! Birdie is a funny FMC and Jeremiah is a sweet, hulk MMC. Great diabetes rep too. To make the timeline make sense I’m telling myself that her school rushes in the spring, this all happened  at the end of football playoff season (so mid to late January), and that they’d been dating 2 months before the epilogue. I wish this was a whole novel though — felt like it had the bones for a  coming of age story.  

kgp510's review

3.5

I don’t know how to best articulate it, but something feels off about this book. The build up was too quick, and felt out of character for Birdie from Runaway Girl. 

gingericha73's review

lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

mdev's review

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.25

bergha1998's review

emotional funny 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

3.5

So dang cute, I liked both of them so much. And how their feelings towards each other really helped them grow. 

College Romance, Size Difference, Opposites Attract, 3 1/2 🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content, and Alcohol

marieintheraw's review

1.0

This novella felt rushed knowing that this character was more developed in a previous book making Birdie just not the character for me.

bookish_kristina's review

2.0

I don’t have much to say about this one, it was super short. I wouldn’t read this if you haven’t read Runaway girl as most of Birdie’s character development is done in that book, in this one she will seem very sad and boring if you don’t have that background. That being said, this book just moved too fast. There is instalove and there is insanity, this was the latter. Birdie was way too young and shouldn’t have been moving in with her grown boyfriend two weeks after meeting him, diabetes or not. Maybe I just can’t read YA or NA type books anymore now that I have kids, the mom in me just gets too angry.
Side note: the timeline of this book doesn’t track with the timeline in Runaway Girl. Birdie is finishing high school in that book when Naomi meets Jason. Fast forward maybe four months and Jason and Naomi have a baby and are married and he is back from his deployment? Unless Birdie took a gap year this is impossible. And since Jeremiah states there is an almost four year age gap between them, I’m thinking a gap year didn’t happen. Sorry, Naomi would not have had time to gestate a baby and have a newborn by the time Birdie was a few weeks into her freshman year. Even rodents don’t breed that quickly.