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A review by readingmoonlitpages
Just Friends by Holly McCulloch
3.0
3.5 stars.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I want to preface all my thoughts by saying that this book is a hard one for me to review. I finished it last night and am not really 100% sure how I feel about it. However, 3.5 stars is probably the fairest rating to give it.
Just Friends is an adult best friends to lovers story. Our main character is Bea, and she is not happy: she has been stuck in the same job for 10 years without any progress, her card side business has gone sort of stale, and to top it all off, she is single. In order to attempt to put her life back together and be happy again, Bea decides to start dating.
Peter is Bea's best friend, and has been by her side since University. Kind, reliable Peter who always seems to know what to say and where to be. In the midst of all of Bea's failures in the dating world, Peter is always there to save the day. So much so that Bea starts to see Peter not just as her odd best friend, but perhaps as something more? But how is Bea supposed to risk her friendship with him over something she doesn't even know she feels for sure?
I love a good old friends to lovers story. The realisation that that person that has been there for you throughout all your ups and downs is actually the person who you are meant to be with, the person who lights up your world, is a beautiful thing.
And so the reason I had a hard time rating this book was because for the first half of it, I absolutely did not care for Bea as a character. I was struggling with empathising with her and found her to be a really difficult character to love. However, as the story progresses, my feelings for Bea were put in the back-burner and I was able to really enjoy the evolving love story. Peter is an absolute sweetheart and his character saved the story for me and kept me interested in the overall development of it.
I do think Just Friends was a fast paced, enjoyable read all together, and as far as friends to lover stories go, it was incredibly sweet and heartwarming.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I want to preface all my thoughts by saying that this book is a hard one for me to review. I finished it last night and am not really 100% sure how I feel about it. However, 3.5 stars is probably the fairest rating to give it.
Just Friends is an adult best friends to lovers story. Our main character is Bea, and she is not happy: she has been stuck in the same job for 10 years without any progress, her card side business has gone sort of stale, and to top it all off, she is single. In order to attempt to put her life back together and be happy again, Bea decides to start dating.
Peter is Bea's best friend, and has been by her side since University. Kind, reliable Peter who always seems to know what to say and where to be. In the midst of all of Bea's failures in the dating world, Peter is always there to save the day. So much so that Bea starts to see Peter not just as her odd best friend, but perhaps as something more? But how is Bea supposed to risk her friendship with him over something she doesn't even know she feels for sure?
I love a good old friends to lovers story. The realisation that that person that has been there for you throughout all your ups and downs is actually the person who you are meant to be with, the person who lights up your world, is a beautiful thing.
And so the reason I had a hard time rating this book was because for the first half of it, I absolutely did not care for Bea as a character. I was struggling with empathising with her and found her to be a really difficult character to love. However, as the story progresses, my feelings for Bea were put in the back-burner and I was able to really enjoy the evolving love story. Peter is an absolute sweetheart and his character saved the story for me and kept me interested in the overall development of it.
I do think Just Friends was a fast paced, enjoyable read all together, and as far as friends to lover stories go, it was incredibly sweet and heartwarming.