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When We're Thirty by Casey Dembowski -- Starting June 23rd 2021
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hii i'm starting this book early !! <3 i hope thats okay !
Shay ☆ wrote: "hii i'm starting this book early !! <3 i hope thats okay !"No problem!! Hope you're enjoying!
hiii i've finished this book oops AHHAH but my review is here! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
hope you enjoy the book!! i'll be sure to discuss it with u too!!
Hey, I'm starting now!
yay excited for you! i liked this one <3
hi trisha, i saw that you finished this one! how was it?
Shay ☆ wrote: "hi trisha, i saw that you finished this one! how was it?"I really enjoyed! I did find it a bit lacking in terms of overall buildup and general romance quality (I don't know what to call it, but there was no swooning from me)
Also, did you feel that this was instalove? I really never completely saw the basis of their attraction to each other, and them falling in love in their marriage was just too convenient and lacking in angst, even though later events made up for it.
Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "hi trisha, i saw that you finished this one! how was it?"I really enjoyed! I did find it a bit lacking in terms of overall buildup and general romance quality (I don't know what to..."
yes it definitely was very surface level? not anything special?
Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "25 % [spoilers removed]"[spoilers removed]"
yes i get what you mean! i think the fact that Hannah & Will were very grounded & honest made up for it, for me at least!
Shay ☆ wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "hi trisha, i saw that you finished this one! how was it?"I really enjoyed! I did find it a bit lacking in terms of overall buildup and general romance quality (I don..."
Exactly!
Shay ☆ wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "25 % [spoilers removed]"[spoilers removed]"
yes i get what you mean! i think the fact that Hannah & Will were very grounded & honest made up for it, for me at least!"
Yeah, that did help, but I felt like it could have been more? Happy you enjoyed though!
Trisha wrote: "Also, did you feel that this was instalove? I really never completely saw the basis of their attraction to each other, and them falling in love in their marriage was just too convenient and lacking..."i didnt feel it was instalove bc there were allusions to their past? but yeah we definitely didnt witness them actually falling in love as Will started out in love already
Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "25 % [spoilers removed]"[spoilers removed]"
yes i get what you mean! i think the fact that Hannah & Will were very grounded & honest made up for it, ..."
yeah totally feel free to speak ur mind i do want to hear ur honest thoughts and definitely will not be offended hHAHAHH
i really enjoyed it mostly bc of Hannah, i really liked how mature and unimposing she was. like she was firm & knew what she wanted but she was also considerate & was open to compromise. she rlly stood out to me
Shay ☆ wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Also, did you feel that this was instalove? I really never completely saw the basis of their attraction to each other, and them falling in love in their marriage was just too conveni..."Yeah, that was part of the problem for me, it wasn't exactly instalove, but because they caught feelings so fast and the dearth of angst in the first half of the book really just made it feel like it was instalove :/
Shay ☆ wrote: "i really enjoyed it mostly bc of Hannah, i really liked how mature and unimposing she was. like she was firm & knew what she wanted but she was also considerate & was open to compromise. she rlly s..."I can agree with that! Still, I wanted more Will POVs! I like having a more or less equal amount of POVs from our leads if there are multiple POVs!
Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Also, did you feel that this was instalove? I really never completely saw the basis of their attraction to each other, and them falling in love in their marriage was j..."yes yes i totally get it
Trisha wrote: "Shay ☆ wrote: "i really enjoyed it mostly bc of Hannah, i really liked how mature and unimposing she was. like she was firm & knew what she wanted but she was also considerate & was open to comprom..."thats true!! i rlly liked reading from will's POV!! i think he was fun!! & his inner conflict was pretty well developed, for me at least
and hes rlly attentive towards Hannah, which was rlly cute
Hannah Abbott is stuck in a dead-end relationship and at a job she loves but that barely pays the bills. The four walls of her tiny New York City apartment have never seemed so small. She’s barely toasted her thirtieth birthday when her old college friend Will knocks on her door with an unexpected proposal.
Will Thorne never forgot the marriage pact he made with Hannah, but he also never imagined he’d be the one to initiate it. One ex-fiancée and an almost-career-ending mistake later, however, he finds himself outside Hannah’s door, on bended knee, to collect on their graduation-night pinky promise.
With both of their futures at stake, Hannah and Will take a leap of faith.
Now, all they have to do is convince their friends and family that they’re madly in love. As long as they follow the list of rules they’ve drafted, everything should go smoothly. Except Will has never been good with rules, and Hannah can’t stop overthinking the sleeping arrangements. Turning thirty has never been so promising.