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pickFinished in September - this was a sweet opposites attract romance. After a hot late encounter at Kiran's donut shop, Sybil leaves behind a winning lottery ticket. His video to find her goes viral and they decide to fake date to keep up publicity for his failing shop. I liked how their relationship made them each stronger. Sybil feels like a failure to her family and he helps her see the good in her qualities and believe in herself. ⬇️
so-soHonestly, the fact that this was a previous pick from my local romance book club should have prepared me for how fully average I found this book.
oh my GOD, ADHD finally getting mentioned at 96%!!!!
I think the issue with 3rd act break ups is not their very existence, but how close they come to the end sometimes. There 7% of the book left when the blow up happens, which is maybe too little time to have to repair the drama and to give the happy ending.
It is WILD to be reading a modern contemporary where one of the leads clearly has undiagnosed ADHD and, at 40%, no one has even brought up that this is a possibility. They're all just mean to her instead!
The male performance on this book (playing at 1.3× speed) sounds like me half-assing my Rod Serling impression
so-soThis is a cute story about a fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants FMC and a by-the-book MMC thrown together by a winning lottery ticket. Fake dating, grumpy/sunshine, with some undiagnosed neurodiversity for flavor.
I didn‘t love it. It took a long time to settle in with the characters, and while I liked the middle section, I found the final conflict and its resolution unsatisfying. Normally I‘d get through this in a week, but this took six, so 🤷🏻♀️
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pickA woman who lives her whirlwind of a life by luck and a by-the-book man who left med school to take over his grandfather's donut shop fake a relationship for PR, but soon their feelings become more than show. This was cute. Sybil's difficulties with undiagnosed neurodiversity were super relatable.
