Lauren
On the Same Page is a friends to lovers romance between Riley, an every day kind of girl trying to launch a news project to reel in younger viewership, and Gianna, a larger than life, successful influencer and owner of a lingerie company. It flips back and forth between their college days from Gianna’s POV and present day from Riley’s POV.
There was nothing wrong with this book. It was cute, the over all prose was good, and I was actually really enjoying it early on. However, unfortunately, I did run into a few issues. The largest is that it dragged on and on. This book could have easily lost 100+ pages and the story would have stayed the same. I don’t mind a thick book, but there needs to be a reason for it and there was no reason for the length of this book.
The next issue I ran into was an odd continuity error. In all honesty, it doesn’t matter and I’m not even that pressed about it, but I am still confused. In the college timeline Gianna claims hers friends did not reach out after something occurs, but one of them had in the previous college chapter (for the wrong reasons, but I digress). I’m just confused if I had the timeline wrong or if this was an editing error. It’s minor, but it stuck out so it’s worth mentioning (again - I could totally be the dumb one here).
I also found the third act break up to be ridiculous. I won’t spoil it, but I will say it made no sense. It felt like conflict for the sake of conflict. I didn’t get it.
Lastly, I understand the reason for it, but we could have chilled it on how constantly the main characters wanted to sleep with each other. I don’t mind a little spice in my books (I’m not a HUGE spice fan, but it’s fine here and there), but it felt like the only thing on Riley’s mind for chapters at a time. Like I get it, girl. I’m so glad you want her, but I’m good. You made your point.
All that to be said, this ain’t a bad book and I would be willing to try another book by the author in the future. I liked the characters overall, and I really would have loved to see more of Riley at work. I was actually really interested in that part of her character and we saw shockingly little of it.
It is worth noting that I did not realize this was a spinoff of another book by the author the author until after I started it, but since these are stand alone romances, I don’t think it would have much bearing on this review. I may try that book in the future, however.
On the Same Page is a friends to lovers romance between Riley, an every day kind of girl trying to launch a news project to reel in younger viewership, and Gianna, a larger than life, successful influencer and owner of a lingerie company. It flips back and forth between their college days from Gianna’s POV and present day from Riley’s POV.
There was nothing wrong with this book. It was cute, the over all prose was good, and I was actually really enjoying it early on. However, unfortunately, I did run into a few issues. The largest is that it dragged on and on. This book could have easily lost 100+ pages and the story would have stayed the same. I don’t mind a thick book, but there needs to be a reason for it and there was no reason for the length of this book.
The next issue I ran into was an odd continuity error. In all honesty, it doesn’t matter and I’m not even that pressed about it, but I am still confused. In the college timeline Gianna claims hers friends did not reach out after something occurs, but one of them had in the previous college chapter (for the wrong reasons, but I digress). I’m just confused if I had the timeline wrong or if this was an editing error. It’s minor, but it stuck out so it’s worth mentioning (again - I could totally be the dumb one here).
I also found the third act break up to be ridiculous. I won’t spoil it, but I will say it made no sense. It felt like conflict for the sake of conflict. I didn’t get it.
Lastly, I understand the reason for it, but we could have chilled it on how constantly the main characters wanted to sleep with each other. I don’t mind a little spice in my books (I’m not a HUGE spice fan, but it’s fine here and there), but it felt like the only thing on Riley’s mind for chapters at a time. Like I get it, girl. I’m so glad you want her, but I’m good. You made your point.
All that to be said, this ain’t a bad book and I would be willing to try another book by the author in the future. I liked the characters overall, and I really would have loved to see more of Riley at work. I was actually really interested in that part of her character and we saw shockingly little of it.
It is worth noting that I did not realize this was a spinoff of another book by the author the author until after I started it, but since these are stand alone romances, I don’t think it would have much bearing on this review. I may try that book in the future, however.