She Gets the Girl

I had high hopes for this book.. It's written by an actual couple who met in college, that sounds like a recipe for an amazing rom-com, you would think. Sadly, this book fell very flat for me.
While I am not the biggest romance reader, I do appreciate a cute rom-com from time to time.
In this case I just did not care enough about the characters. Both of the girls were very annoying to me in the beginning, thankfully this wasn't a big problem as I continued reading. I also could predict the major events, which just made me feel like I was wasting my time reading.
Instead of fully DNFing this book I decided to skip parts until I found something interesting to read.
What I really appreciated was the time spent on family dynamics. While the drunk parent has been a bit played out in the romance genre (imo) I thought it was really interesting that Molly has conversations with her mother about their heritage and how it effects them differently.
I think if the book had focussed more on their families and not a DUFF remix I would have enjoyed it more.
The reason I gave it three starts is because it's not a bad book, it's just not my taste.

3.5/5 ⭐
Pretty average rom-com. Nothing I haven't read before. The classic helping-her-get-a-girlfriend-but-falling-for-her-in-the-process. Super predictable but I still enjoyed it because I'm basic. The changing room scene was my favorite. Alex really grew on me throughout the book because I really didn't like her at the beginning. I liked the college and job part. We had parts with each of their moms. I didn't mind them but I wasn't super invested. I read this in one sitting. It felt like not that much really happened but I wasn't bored. That doesn't make any sense but whatever. It was entertaining ok. They only mentioned the fact that they were gay once. It wasn't like their sexualities were mentioned a lot. It just felt like a normal straight rom-com but between two girls. So I don't know how I felt about that. The ending was fine, it just takes the main couple until like 10 pages from the end to finally get together so we don't have a lot of their relationship but we do get plenty of them hanging out and bonding. But yeah overall nothing new, nothing crazy, but entertaining and cute.

There are not a lot of queer books out there, and not a lot of actual wlw romantic ones and we definitely need more!
This could have been your standard romance book, with just a little twist. Its cute, it's sweet, a bit expected but I don't mind it at all. It is well written and makes your heart happy and calm!

I strongly suggest you go with the audiobook as listening to the 2 povs is making this so much better and more interesting.

I need more books like this one for a quiet night of reading!