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Incompetent protagonists give me the ick

I am obsessed! Protect Charlie and Nick at all costs.

wow.  Is this going to be my favorite series?

Song pairing "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" by Taylor Swift

OH MY GOD. This book took me seven and a half months to read but it's my favorite book of the year.  Curtis Sittenfeld is so smart and her writing ALWAYS kills me, but this is far and away the biggest hit for me.

I found the character of Sally to be one of the most relatable female characters I've ever read while also having a very different personality from me.  She and I have different senses of humor and demeanors but similar interests, perspectives, and opinions of ourselves.  She is the most confident woman in many rooms, but extremely insecure and self-conscious as well. It's a balance that people struggle to isolate in themselves, and certainly can't recognize in other people, but Curtis captured it and dissected it brilliantly in this book.

Romantic Comedy is a fantastical reality in that most of us can't even dream to be an SNL writer or to have a heart-throb pop star fall head over heals for us, but it is self-aware from start to finish and debates the whole time if this relationship is too-good-to-be-true.  While it is a fantasy, it does not read as fan-fiction because of the disbelief along the way.

Sally is convinced she's not good-looking enough for Noah, and he is sure he is not smart or witty enough for Sally.  They have insane chemistry and butterfly-inducing banter, but then they talk about it later in a candid way that melts my heart.  This book is TEEMING with quotes that I will think about for years to come.  Noah was so endearing when he said his favorite conversations were with Sally and that she made him a funnier man.  That he was proud when he could have quips with her even if they weren't laugh out loud funny because he never has them with anyone else.

There is so much care and questioning about relationships and expectations. And the communication is incredible.  Well the communication about communication that crescendos through the novel.  Sally is a horrible communicator for most of the novel and self-sabotages as a result of her self-doubt in the most painful but ENTIRELY RELATABLE ways.  I think her anti-therapy experience is crucial to understanding how she can be a functioning adult at 35 with these social skills.

The TLC in this book will melt your cold hearts.  I am obsessed and will make no apologies for this being my new personality.

pen pals and realistic pen pals! The way they talk about their past too..... AHHHHHHHH!

also the handling of COVID? it was such an important part of the story without being traumatic, too triggering, or belittling of that shared human experience.

I really liked this one. Probably my third favorite. But it had the childhood friends/crush to lovers arc with the opposites attract and dangerous man elements that often hit with me.

I have noticed that the later books in this series rely on the "foreplay" or flirtation in earlier books to believe the couple in the book and we don't get to see the relationships develop and then are left with insta-love. It's just not as satisfying. I will say that for this one it felt better because of the complexity and longevity of their past and that they were still kept apart through this plot. It was very much a book about her accepting her feelings for him instead of developing them.

Anyway, fun with better plot than most of them and maybe my favorite steamy scenes. LOTS of blood and violence in this one though.

So stinking cute!!! Idk why I waited so long to read it. Took me over an hour but definitely a one sitting book!!

I 🏃🏼‍♀️ to buy used copies of the entire series online so I could binge it!

The giddy butterflies I felt towards the end?!?!!! Ugh protect these boys at all costs.

Defo gonna binge the books then watch season 2!

I really liked this one. Not my favorite, and not the most riveting plot or actual romance. But solid smut and no logic plot holes so who can complain?

My first polyamory book for sure.

took me forever to read this because the beginning was SLOWWWW and then I put it down to read CC3. Well 5 months later lost in slump city I started craving Rowan/Celaena and leaned into the mood reader in me. Part Two (which begins over halfway through the book) is really where it's at!

I love the characters and am so hyped for where this series is going.  However the pacing is painful. These first four books have been teases and I understand why some people may dnf the series.  I however am invested and powering through.

I hate that there were scenes at the end that had me clapping and bouncing and hype af and then the ending was actually quite lackluster and I'm already dreading the first half of the next book.  Don't worry I already started it. But come on!!!!