Review #411
3.9/5 for Talk Bookish to Me, a second chance romance by Kate Bromley
Many spoilers to follow. These are my random comments while reading:
The first chapter is great. Kara and Ryan dated in college 10 years ago and run into each other at their friends’ wedding. Shout out to North Carolina!
It was already hinted at that the reason they broke up so long ago was from loyalty issues. So if he cheated long ago I’m not gonna like this story.
But so far their characters are great. I love that she’s a writer and their banter is already cute.
Kara’s writers block seems to be healed whenever Ryan is around. Since she needs to meet a deadline, she’s forcing herself to spend more time with him during the week he’s in town for their friends’ wedding. A few days of mingling won’t kill her.
After chapter 5 I’m just wondering why they broke up to begin with. What’s the story?
Spoiler- her dad died from getting hit by a driver while crossing the street. These stories are hard for me to read since a friend of mine died that way last year. It makes me want to put the book down.
I don’t like the stereotypical “when will you get married? and your eggs are getting old” conversation. It’s overdone and annoying.
I love the name Duke for his dog since I live 30 minutes from there.
When she has inspiration from her muse to write, I’m finding myself skipping those sections. Unsure why.
Their first-again kiss was hot. But I’m just as confused as she is by his reaction afterward. It only makes sense if he’s already dating someone.
At the midway point, when her sister says she’s ‘not playing games’… of course she is!
“I smile to myself, thinking I probably always was his.”
And now the guy cheated on his current secret fiancé with our heroine. So now I hate him. Like how am I supposed to root for him now?
Chapter 18 in Italy feels like a different book altogether since the writing turned into a summarization of highlights
I’m glad she didn’t catch him at the grand gesture… But the airplane trope. Why is it in 97% of contemporary romance books?
Unfortunately the book went downhill after the half mark for me. I had high hopes and it started off so well.