Really good book that i will recommend to others.

Thanks for the opportunity to read & review it.

Lucy Vine's BOOK BOYFRIEND is a really fun premise. However, the long winded thoughts of our narrators made it a bit tedious to follow. Overall, it was very enjoyable and the two sisters Jemma and Clara opposing personalities made it extra fun. Personally I relate more to Jemma than Clara, and I wish I could find a fun note in my local library book. Even though the story is centered around the two sisters, it could have been really fun to read more about their mother. The dynamic between the sisters is great and it does give wonder if maybe there could be an expansion of the book into a series featuring other characters (like their mother).

I have only read two books by Lucy Vine before this one, but the concept this onequed my interest.The alternating narration twins works really well; just as one of them becomes a bit, you get to time the other one. The flatmates enjoyable as well.


I am eager to read "Too Good To Be True" now!

This is a really cute, fun read. Jemma and Clara are twin sisters who are polar opposites, living separate lives. Until they are forced to live together as adults, spend some time in each others shoes, and learn more about themselves and life together. Featuring a fun cast of zany side characters, friends and family, this book will keep you smiling!

I really struggled with this. I didn't enjoy the writing style, I couldn't stand Clara - she was insufferable from the get go -
and I didn't care enough about Jemma. Not for me.

What a lovely book! It’s been a long time since I enjoyed a book as much as I did this one! Lucy has such a way with words, and it almost feels like you’re part of the story. I was rooting for most of the characters, they all seemed like people I’d be friends with.
Can’t recommend this one highly enough - off to shout about it from the rooftops!

Jemma and her twin sister could not be less alike. Jemma is quiet, loves her books and slightly serious. Clara is loud, ditzy and makes friends with everyone. When Clara returns from years in America, she shakes up Jemma's nice, peaceful life. Meanwhile Jemma is writing love letters to a secret person in her favourite book. Who could E be?

This was a nice quick read but I unfortunately guessed who was writing the notes from the start, which led to me disliking Clara as she pursued Milo. I related a lot to Jemma as a character, meaning I struggled to like Clara at all. She redeemed herself at the end though!

Thanks NetGalley for the advanced copy.

I absolutely loved everything about this book. I knew I would. I was saving it for when I really needed it, and I'd just finished a book I didn't enjoy at all, so in swooped Book Boyfriend to restore my faith in reading!

Lucy Vine's writing style is my absolute favourite, the characters all feel so vividly real and I always feel so immersed in the story. Parts of the book were laugh out loud funny (For example, Clara wondering why library books have plastic on them) and other parts were really heartwarming.

I was so invested in both Jemma's and Clara's stories, and loved the dual narrative. As a control-freak bookworm, I found Jemma to be such a relatable character, but I loved how Clara brought her out of her comfort zone too. My only quibble is that Jemma didn't seem to have to work much and could seemingly take a day off whenever she wanted, but I appreciate this is fiction so I can let that go. The side characters were fantastic too and I really enjoyed getting to know them.

Overall I would 100% recommend this book. My favourite Lucy Vine was Seven Exes, but this was probably just as good?!

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster UK for this ARC.

Jemma and Clara, 28 are fraternal twin sisters who couldn't be more different in character. Jemma is a very reliable ghost writer and takes the same book out over and over again from the library, when one time she finds a note in it directed to her. She starts corresponding thinking the other person is a woman as it's a romance book. Her flatmates Harry and Selma convince her it is a man, so she asks for his name.

Meanwhile, chaotic Clara has returned from the US where she has lived for the last five years, just in time for their mother's wedding to a woman. Due to lingering resentment, Jemma is not happy to see her, especially as she moves in with her, Salma and Harry and is a very inconsiderate flatmate. In fact, she is selfish, useless and obnoxious, and when we are later given some background on her time in the US, it is a 180 degrees turn around on her character that I personally didn't swallow.

Clara falls in lust with an actor called Milo who has the main role in a series based on Jemma's favourite book, renamed Book Boyfriend. She tries to get near him in a series of events that are meant to be funny but are just plain embarrassing and display obsessive behaviour unworthy of a 28 year old.

We get some potential love interests for Jemma in the form of mountaineer Aarav and grumpy librarian Mack, probably trying go get the grumpy/sunshine trope going, but failing spectacularly. I didn't find the book funny, just silly, and why do we need a narrator? We could have done without him and lost nothing. I tried to like the romance but it was barely there and I got no sense of some of the guys at all.

A lot of words to say this book wasn't for me as I neither liked the plot, the characters or the writing style.

2.5 stars

I think this is Lucy's best since Hot Mess! It's a total, full-out unapologetic rom-com - very zeitgeisty, very funny and very silly!

The switching narration between the twins works really well, just as one of them is getting a bit much, you get to spend time with the other one! The flatmates are fun too.

The only thing I wasn't;t 100% sold on was "The Narrator" who wasn't really needed IMO.

I want to read "Too Good To Be True" now!

Thank you for my earc of this book. I loved the premise but didn’t enjoy the writing style & characters so I DNF