khylabevibin's review against another edition
4.0
This book was good and cute, I’ll give it a 4 stars but only because of small things.
This small thing was how Lindsey and her mother didn’t have the conversation that was meant to happen. Their confrontation was small and if you were reading too fast you might have just missed it.
I also thought the ending could’ve been way better though good it would have been full circle if we saw a proposal or a wedding or even a flash forward to their future.
Also what happened to Allison? Daisy is described to be popular and a social butterfly yet we get such small conversations or interactions with anyone but her mother.
Overall my greatest disdain is with Lindsey and her mother. I expected so much more anger at least verbally expelled.
This small thing was how Lindsey and her mother didn’t have the conversation that was meant to happen. Their confrontation was small and if you were reading too fast you might have just missed it.
I also thought the ending could’ve been way better though good it would have been full circle if we saw a proposal or a wedding or even a flash forward to their future.
Also what happened to Allison? Daisy is described to be popular and a social butterfly yet we get such small conversations or interactions with anyone but her mother.
Overall my greatest disdain is with Lindsey and her mother. I expected so much more anger at least verbally expelled.
rakhya's review against another edition
3.0
Enjoyable, but somewhat irritating.
This book caught my attention fairly easily, thanks to geeky and socially awkward Leslie and bubbly matchmaker Daisy.
It was a fun read, until Daisy started backing her advice with "science".
For someone with an academic background, Daisy seemed awfully quick to pass judgement on the dynamics of human attraction. Her expert opinion on how relationships always start with sexual attraction, and how it's scientifically proven that being in love with more than one person at a time is impossible came across as shallow and rather unscientific.
And while I assume that the author chose the verbiage in good faith, the result was a bit hurtful in its apparent ace and poly erasure.
This book caught my attention fairly easily, thanks to geeky and socially awkward Leslie and bubbly matchmaker Daisy.
It was a fun read, until Daisy started backing her advice with "science".
For someone with an academic background, Daisy seemed awfully quick to pass judgement on the dynamics of human attraction. Her expert opinion on how relationships always start with sexual attraction, and how it's scientifically proven that being in love with more than one person at a time is impossible came across as shallow and rather unscientific.
And while I assume that the author chose the verbiage in good faith, the result was a bit hurtful in its apparent ace and poly erasure.
lady_valhella's review against another edition
5.0
This was such a great love story. And finally a lesbian love story where the antagonist is not a sex depraved male! I do not want to give anything away so just read the book! Bravo Maggie Brown!
pandon's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this book. The two main characters are like-able but I would have liked to see more development for Daisy, especially the relationship with her sister. There was a bit of angst and a couple of surprises. An altogether enjoyable way to spend some time.
khieeae's review against another edition
4.0
This book was good and cute, I’ll give it a 4 stars but only because of small things.
This small thing was how Lindsey and her mother didn’t have the conversation that was meant to happen. Their confrontation was small and if you were reading too fast you might have just missed it.
I also thought the ending could’ve been way better though good it would have been full circle if we saw a proposal or a wedding or even a flash forward to their future.
Also what happened to Allison? Daisy is described to be popular and a social butterfly yet we get such small conversations or interactions with anyone but her mother.
Overall my greatest disdain is with Lindsey and her mother. I expected so much more anger at least verbally expelled.
This small thing was how Lindsey and her mother didn’t have the conversation that was meant to happen. Their confrontation was small and if you were reading too fast you might have just missed it.
I also thought the ending could’ve been way better though good it would have been full circle if we saw a proposal or a wedding or even a flash forward to their future.
Also what happened to Allison? Daisy is described to be popular and a social butterfly yet we get such small conversations or interactions with anyone but her mother.
Overall my greatest disdain is with Lindsey and her mother. I expected so much more anger at least verbally expelled.
mishaone's review against another edition
2.0
This was one of my least favorites in my recent look at lesfic. The characters were interesting but thier interactions just didn't make me think they even like each other, much less were in love. For example, why would you yell at someone you love or even like if they're teaching your robot prototype to do complex testing for fun? A good premise, but the follow through left a bit to be desired for me.
nonbinaryknight's review against another edition
4.0
4.25/5
I love the idea of this book and, in my personal opinion, the author delivered well for the synopsis.
I loved Lindsey and her backstory. She was an amazing character and, for better or worse, I could relate to her quite a bit.
I did have a couple of issues with the book. My biggest issue is that I would have liked to see Daisy explored more. Lindsey felt really well-developed, maybe in part due to her circumstances, but it would have felt nice to get reciprocal development from Daisy. I did however enjoy that the author didn’t just ignore that Lindsey’s experience could have scarred her (mentally and physically). Rather she acknowledged the physical scars and mentioned Lindsey seeing a therapist to help with the mental scarring. I was glad the author at least mentioned something and didn’t leave it up to the reader to determine if they felt that Lindsey would have suffered mental scarring after her experiences.
My second issue is that I would have liked the book to be longer. That might sound weird, but I honestly feel like certain moments were missing. I would have really liked to read about them coming out to Allison as a couple. Also, I would have liked to read more about the process/experience of the tutorials. I do worry that reading all about it might have gotten repetitive, but I also feel like it could have helped to further the developing relationship between the two women. (Also, I’m just interested to see what could have happened on the practice dates.)
Other than those issues, I quite enjoyed this book. It was a great read with drama that didn’t feel forced and rather made perfect sense within the context of the book. The character’s felt like they had good chemistry and I enjoyed watching the relationship between the two develop, especially in the earlier stages where the two were trying to avoid naming what they were feeling for the other woman. It was amusing, especially the body language bar part.
Honestly, I think I would like to see a movie version of this book.
I love the idea of this book and, in my personal opinion, the author delivered well for the synopsis.
I loved Lindsey and her backstory. She was an amazing character and, for better or worse, I could relate to her quite a bit.
I did have a couple of issues with the book. My biggest issue is that I would have liked to see Daisy explored more. Lindsey felt really well-developed, maybe in part due to her circumstances, but it would have felt nice to get reciprocal development from Daisy. I did however enjoy that the author didn’t just ignore that Lindsey’s experience could have scarred her (mentally and physically). Rather she acknowledged the physical scars and mentioned Lindsey seeing a therapist to help with the mental scarring. I was glad the author at least mentioned something and didn’t leave it up to the reader to determine if they felt that Lindsey would have suffered mental scarring after her experiences.
My second issue is that I would have liked the book to be longer. That might sound weird, but I honestly feel like certain moments were missing. I would have really liked to read about them coming out to Allison as a couple. Also, I would have liked to read more about the process/experience of the tutorials. I do worry that reading all about it might have gotten repetitive, but I also feel like it could have helped to further the developing relationship between the two women. (Also, I’m just interested to see what could have happened on the practice dates.)
Other than those issues, I quite enjoyed this book. It was a great read with drama that didn’t feel forced and rather made perfect sense within the context of the book.
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The only one that seemed slightly forced was Lindsey’s mom appearing at her reveal, but even that didn’t seem fully forced more rushed than anything.Honestly, I think I would like to see a movie version of this book.
synth's review
1.0
This started okay. I appreciated the character of Lindsey being more nuanced than the usual rude dominating ice queen whom the bubbly love interest somehow falls in love with – or in lust. She’s actually quite likeable and relatable. And to be fair, the quiet tender affection that grows between them was endearing.
I could put aside my dislike of the idea of soulmates, and especially that believing in them makes one a romantic, but there was too much pseudo-science about human interactions for my liking (like the HLA gene thing – it has some vaguely accurate basis, but it is certainly not as important and simple as presented – and, worse, the “emotional exclusivity” idea that humans innately cannot love more than one person).
The slightly sci-fi feel of the whole “advanced prosthetics that look completely real and are perfectly and finely controlled by brain implants, and close-to-human robots” thing confused me the entire first half. I didn’t see a reason for it, except maybe for the main character to have made a sex robot for herself or something...
And then my interest completely waned when it is revealed that the main character has. It really felt like a very very lazy way to artificially introduce tension and angst (which there could already be plenty of with her mother and her childhood, and ), to show the love interest as a hero for her acceptance, and to spice up the matchmaker-falls-for-client trope. The fact that the solution her love interest comes up with to facilitate her dating is to this all makes it dubiously consensual and very .
PS: What is it with this trope of the staff loving their employer like a family member………..
I could put aside my dislike of the idea of soulmates, and especially that believing in them makes one a romantic, but there was too much pseudo-science about human interactions for my liking (like the HLA gene thing – it has some vaguely accurate basis, but it is certainly not as important and simple as presented – and, worse, the “emotional exclusivity” idea that humans innately cannot love more than one person).
The slightly sci-fi feel of the whole “advanced prosthetics that look completely real and are perfectly and finely controlled by brain implants, and close-to-human robots” thing confused me the entire first half. I didn’t see a reason for it, except maybe for the main character to have made a sex robot for herself or something...
And then my interest completely waned when it is revealed that the main character has
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one of those perfect prosthetic arm, which of course gives her so much angst in relation to potential dating, but with zero meaningful disabled representationSpoiler
her accident and the death of the only woman she slept withSpoiler
have her reveal it to the world in an interview – when she is an extremely private person, and when the only reason the love interest knows is not because she trusted her with this secret, but because she stumbled on it by accident –Spoiler
ableist (why would she have to reveal this to the world? This is not an act of self-esteem, and this has no real practical advantage for her. And more importantly, the love interest had no right to make that decision for her, which is effectively what she does, especially when they don’t even fight about it at all. Like… she’s even more upset about the matchmaker not disclosing she was a lesbian, which is totally reasonable and expected given their working relationship)PS: What is it with this trope of the staff loving their employer like a family member………..
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