The Matzah Ball

The Matzah Ball

2021 • 416 pages

Ratings23

Average rating3.4

15

Contains spoilers

I immediately enjoyed the disability representation, the Jewishness of all the characters, and the overall pacing was good. That being said, I think it dragged a little bit at the end.

I am personally not a huge enemies to lovers fan, never have been. While I enjoyed this book immensely, I am still not a fan of the trope being used within the book, especially as the original conflict feels very contrived and it ended up in the space that I often feel that these books get to which is "If they would just talk this would be resolved rather quickly." Also I know a third act breakup is par for the course with the genre, but that being said, the first one where she quits volunteering at the Matzah Ball was fine, but the second one where he personally discovers she's Margot Cross and gets upset that she's writing him into a book made me actually groan, it was conflict to be conflict and that was not really doing it for me.

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