What another incredible book by Abby Jimenez 👏🏻
Yours Truly was in my top 3 books of last year so I was thrilled to be asked to review her newest book!

Abby is truly gifted with her writing, the characters and world she has built is my favourite place to be.
From the beginning I fell over head heels for our main couple, the meet cute on reddit was hilarious and it all felt natural.

I love the found family in this book and we get to see so many of our old favourites from past books too so it was truly a gift 🥰
Thank you Abby and Little Brown Book Group for the ARC 🤍

4.5 ⭐

When someone at Jimenez’s publishing house in the UK contacted me offering me an ARC of this book it turned around a crappy week for me. I have been waiting to read this for so long and thought my wait would be longer.

I’ve said this about previous books of hers but… this book was hands down the best thing she’s written. In fact, it’s probably one of my favourite books, ever. One thing I love about her books is how she incorporates characters from previous books and it took me a hot minute to place Benny, and the other character I won’t name at this point to avoid potential spoilers and it was perfection. Perfection because you got to see their world beyond their story… I was pumped to see Benny thriving after what he experienced in “yours truly”.

So… this story is heavy at times as it deals with navigating messy families, deception, childhood trauma and how it bites you in the ass when you realise what you’ve gone through. The FMC was complex, and I mean that was an understatement. She was messy and lost and led her day to day life as the kindest human whilst suppressing the consequences of a life that she never asked for.

The original premise of the story is one that’s been done, but this take on it was amazing.

Justin, the MMC… I think is my favourite MMC of all time. Books will set unrealistic expectations but actually this is simultaneously doing that and emphasising that actually, it’s what is deserved. As Jimenez herself said; he is the epitome of “if he wanted to be would”

The FMC best friend was a fierce protector and honestly brilliant. I love how her story wrapped up and who that involved as I loved that character in a previous book but I kinda wanted to see that as a whole book… cos I’m greedy like that.

This book had me laughing out loud at points, the banter was great. I think I could honestly go on for ages about this book. It got me out of a reading slump caused by life overload and so thankful for it. I cannot tell you the incessant need I have to get my hands on a physical copy.

Thank you to the author, publisher and netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for a voluntary and honest review.

“If I could give it 6 stars, I would”

This will be a great book for summer. It’s light hearted with some depth. Closed door romance. If you like the authors other books you’ll enjoy this.