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"i'm at your feet, nora. if you want me, i'm yours"

ughh i feel so conflicted about what to rate this book right now. sarah adams has always been an auto-buy author for me. (i would literally read her grocery list, that's how much i love her). however i just don't think this book was for me 🙁

obviously, there were some things i did enjoy about this book as well as things i didn't enjoy. if you saw my reading updates for this book, you would know that there were some parts that had me giggling and kicking my feet and other parts that made me want to slam my head into a brick wall... repeatedly.

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˚₊�� ͟͟͞͞➳❥ starting off with the characters. sarah adams almost always writes the most likeable, cutest characters ever that just have you just giggling the entire time. this book was no exception.... except for nora

𐙚 | nora : this girl made me so incredibly angry. i just want to know what was going through sarah adams head as she was writing this character.was she trying to make her cute or quirky but it didn't hit or what?? nora is an obnoxiously happy person (i'm not alergic to fun or nice people, but she was WAY over the top) and it gave me a headache. i love reading about positive characters, but sometimes it's a bit too much to the point where you wonder if her boyfriend got hit by a truck would she just stand there and crack a joke like she did the whole time (she literally did not take one single thing seriously this whole book)

another thing is that the author kept describing her awful outfits in way too much detail. first of all, i don't even like hearing about what the characters are wearing in any book i read because it's almost always 1)ugly as shit, or 2)super outdated.in this one, they happened to be ugly as shit. she was described as wearing the ugliest clothes. at one point she was wearing neon yellow sneakers (what the fuck) and another time she was wearing bright daisy overalls. and there's nothing against those things, but picturing her wearing these things to WORK just makes it seem weird and childish

and DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED on how the main character was speaking. she kept saying these awful catchphrase joke thingies that gave me so much secondhand embarrassment that i had to get up and take a walk for a bit.

a few examples of what she said are :
- "that makes me angrier than a hornet stuck in a sweaty persons shirt"
- "let's do this hokey pokey!"
- "that's sadder than a wet Pomeranian puppy."
- "you saved my ass, and now i'm going to save your deliciously firm butt cheeks too"

my reaction after reading those lines :


what. the. actual. FAWKKK🧍‍♀️for context, this book is written for (what i'm assuming) is adults, and the main characters are almost in their thirties. ew.

okay i'm sorry for absolutely going off on nora. im sure sarah adams didn't mean to make her as annoyingly unbearable she was.

❀ | derek : this man oh my gosh. sarah adams is so good at writing a good male character. she did it with nathan, noah, and now derek. he was such a sweetheart, i don't know he was able to put up with nora but it's so sweet of him to do that LMAOO. but in all honesty, his thoughts about nora were the cutest thing ever. let me insert a cute quote from his pov below.

"we were lying there on the beach and the sand was in her hair and the sun was golden on her skin and i couldn't help it. i wanted her. still want her. will likely spend forever wanting her.

but not just in a physical sense. i want her as my best friend, my favorite person to talk to, the one who i walk with through every good and bad season. i want so much more with her than just that kiss on the beach."

LITERAL CHILLS. that man can have it any day of the week 😩♡♡

�� | nathan + bree : thank GOD we got some crumbs of my fav sarah adams couple. (AND THE ENDINGGG!!) ugh i love them so much, i will never get tired of reading about them. so glad she added the little surprise at the end (i won't say what it is since its spoiler free hehe).

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˚₊�� ͟͟͞͞➳❥ besides the fmc + some cringey things that were done and said... i think it was a pretty good read, it just was not a favorite. (or anywhere near it for that matter😔) i personally feel like the cheat sheet universe could have been left alone, but that also means i wouldn't have been able to read about derek pender.

anyways thank u for reading my ridiculously long review (more like rant). these are all my personal opinions so don't come for me x