Figgy

I find that most of the books I've read from Japanese authors all follow this format of main story line with sort stories that are sorta linked. The story was cute, not my favorite but a breezy read. It's one of those books where things just kinda happen and while the ending was heart warming I'm not a huge fan of these fantasies where "this is how this works because it just is" story lines.

In general not bad but wouldn't go out of my way to recommend.

I really liked the book and then I got to the author's notes at the end and she spoke about how this was basically a book to cheer up her friend who had been going through grief after the loss of her husband in her early 20's. That really completed the whole story for me, I think it's beautiful and heartwarming. Wonderful cozy romance read.

I didn't find the book very interesting, it's super predictable and uses way too many cliches. Maybe it's fun for someone just starting out to read books like this but it absolutely isn't for me. In general I'm getting a bit annoyed with how so many young adult books have suddenly become so predictable. And granted I've been out of my teens for a while but I don't think that you should be able to tell the ending after the first three chapters.

I'm a big fan of romance books but this one was just so...boring? The characters were boring and shallow, it was just one trope after another and it tried to be self aware which just made it even worse. I didn't get attached neither to the characters or the plot or anything really. Things just sort of conveniently popped up and even the spicy scenes felt soooo awkward and even made me a little uncomfortable. I think this is the first book I've read from Ali Hazelwood and if this is supposed to be her most popular one then I gotta say I'm not feeling very compelled to read any of her other ones if this is what I'm gonna get.

So one thing to note is that when i started reading the series, I started with the second, third, first and then last book. This one was definitely the most disappointing one I've read yet.

It kind of felt like it was just a segue for the next series and I didn't connect with the characters at all. I found myself wanting to just skim pages because nothing really held my attention as well as the third part of the series did. Super disappointing, the characters were simply too flat and it's like...almost all of the series could be summed up to "if they just talked about it, this book would have been 50 pages long" but with the others I understood why the characters were withholding, why we were building this suspense and sense of yearning. But here? It was just some guy with an extreme moral compass and a girl who was like idk I guess he's ignoring me so I won't talk to him bc daddy issues...Just...not my cup of tea.