This book was a weird take on a romance novel. Following the story of Ada and all her happenings, we are taken on a story of love and hopelessness. The story starts in Edinburgh and tells the burgeoning love story of Ada deciding between 2 lovers. I liked how we were so enveloped into Ada story but I felt this was kind of a typical twenty something female story I’ve read before. I loved the relationship between Ada and Mel but didn’t feel like it truly ended. That was the main issue for me- the end. I never felt like it truly ended or that there was a conclusion to the story. A good read but would have love to have seen it finish.

I really wanted to love this as the description sounded like something i would, unfortunately i could not connect to the book or the characters at all. I adore the cover. 2.5

I so wish that I could get into this book, because I love the idea of the premise and can totally imagine hype forming around it on release- but unfortunately I just found it underwhelming & I think the lack of something going on just made it harder for me to stay interested.

The character of Ada is well written & who doesn't love reading about a love triangle?

One thing I can say is that I love the cover...

Thank you to Brydie Lee-Kennedy, Bloomsbury Publishing & Net Galley for this ARC.

This book was surprisingly fun to read! on the surface it might seem not too deep, just another millenial girl not able to pick between her male lover and her female lover, and ends up stringing them both along until she ends up alone. In theory it isn't much of a plot but I loved how intricate the author was with the relationships between the characters. Particularly the text sequences they felt so genuine in their flirtiness and banter that comes with that initial getting to know people. I also enjoyed how Stuart ghosted her at the end, of course I wanted to know what happened with him but it made sense and made the ending of the book quite cutting. I think this book will do quite well in the contemporary market!

Go Lightly by Brydie Lee-Kennedy explores what it's like to be a young person living abroad, exploring and balancing relationships with different love interests, sibling relationship dynamics.

Another reviewer said they found it to be underwhelming and I think that’s the perfect word for this book, were i to give it a one word review! It was fine.

Started this book in London and finished it on descent into Sydney which seems quite fitting - this book is about Ada, an Australian twenty something who lives in London and her overlapping romantic relationships with two people, and her relationships with her friends and family.

About halfway through this book I wasn’t wholly sold - I found Stuart as a character particularly grating - but I’m glad I stuck with it. The prose is very straight forward, no frills in a way that reminds me of Naoise Dolan in cadence, and it was a fast read. Ada is a bit of a messy character - girl doesn’t know what she wants - but by the end I found it endearing. The blurb mostly mentions her relationships with Sadie and Stuart, both very different circumstances and people that come into conflict and make up the main narrative of the story - but the part that I engaged with the most was the fraught relationship between Ada and her sister Gabby. The two had a terrible relationship when they were younger - though this is never fully described and from the snippets Ada describes it’s hard to tell who’s at fault or if indeed either of them are. In the book they interact as adults after Gabby has a baby and Ada flies out to Florida to meet him, and this section of the book is such a good portrayal of two siblings who let long past grudges come between them and don’t really know how to interact. The book lacks resolution in ways, which works for this narrative - but it still feels uplifting on the whole.

I'm not really sure what to write about this book. It was just a bit... nothing. There wasn't anything especially bad about it, I am sure that there will be readers out there who enjoy it a lot more than I did, but I just found it to be underwhelming. I was constantly waiting for it to 'get good' and it just didn't.

The characters in this book lacked depth for me. Ada didn't seem to really learn anything or grow so by the climax of the story I didn't have any emotional attachment to her and didn't much care what she chose to do. Stuart, considering he was a third of the love triangle (can you call it that? I'm not sure) was not given any backstory at all and perhaps this was the author's intent, but it didn't work for me personally. Sadie, the other love interest, was also not really explored fully and so once again I didn't really care who Ada chose as they were both pretty uninteresting characters.

As for the romance itself, there was definitely potential with Ada and Stuart to have an interesting story together but this did not happen. Sadie and Ada I just found to have no connection at all other than the fact that they are both Australian. It didn't even feel like they liked each other so I didn't buy that they particularly cared what the other one was doing.

Overall, I got to the end of this book feeling nothing at all.