Zora Books Her Happy Ever After

I loved this book from the first paragraph. It felt like a real human story, something that everyone would have to deal with.

The character of Zora felt very familiar to me and her relationship with her family was amazing.

My only con for this book was there are some descriptions that are too long. Like the food or make up BUT they’re small things!

Amazing book and I can’t wait to read the authors backlog!

What a delightful read. Zora was such an amazing protagonist - I love her passion and dedication for books and for her community. I absolutely want to be friends with her!! I enjoyed reading about Zora's friendship with Emma as well as her relationship with her grandma - these two are absolutely unhinged and hilarious yet supportive at the same time and I LOVE IT!! The only critic that I have is that the plot has been quite predictable from the beginning for me.

3.75 stars
Zora has committed every inch of her life to establishing her thriving DC bookstore, making it a pillar of the community and she hasnt had the time for romance. However, when a mystery author who she has been crushing on for years agrees to have an event at her store, she starts to rethink her priorities…

Lawrence is charming as she imagined, even if his understanding of his own book seems just a little shallow. When he asks her out after his reading, she's almost elated enough to forget about the grumpy guy who was sitting next to her making snide comments throughout the evening. Apparently he is Lawrence's best friend, Reid, but she can't imagine what kind of friendship that must be. They couldn't be more different.
As Zora starts seeing Lawrence, and spending more time with Reid, Zora finds first impressions can be deceiving. Reid is smart and thoughtful, and also, is very interested in Zora. After years of avoiding dating, she suddenly has two men competing for her affection.
However, she struggles to choose between them and she can’t shake the feeling that they are both hiding something.

I don’t usually go for love triangles, as that's something I don’t like as much BUT BUT I did enjoy this one!! It was a little predictable in some points, but nonetheless, it was an enjoyable read and I loved Zora who was strong, confident, passionate about her bookstore, and just the perfect main character me thinks!! The two potential love interests tho… I’m not sure how I feel about them!!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for sending me this ARC. Zora books her happy ever after by Taj McCoy comes out on April 27th.

After reading Taj McCoy's first book I knew I'd want to read anything and everything she puts out next. I'm happy to report that Zora Books Her Happy Ever After did not disappoint.

Zora owns a bookstore (one I'd love to visit) and it's there she meets the first potential love interest, Lawrence, and shortly after the second potential love interest, Reid, too. It turns out that both guys are best friends, but Zora decides to date them both and see where that goes.

I had a clear favourite from the start, AND IT WASN'T LAWRENCE!!! He was okay at first, but the more he opened his mouth the less attractive he became. I hated the way he wouldn't listen to what Zora was telling him, wouldn't ask her about herself, and yeah the fact that he was an idiot who seemed to only care about himself.

Reid started off being kind of mean, but as the book went on we got to see that he wasn't like that at all. He was very sweet, attentive, and cared a lot about his students. He also didn't have the memory of a goldfish.

The steamy scenes with Reid were great while the Lawrence ones...let's not go there.

This book even managed to make me cry a few times, I consider that a good thing.

The one thing I didn't like (apart from Lawrence), was how Zora's granny kept pestering her for great grandbabies throughout the whole book. It was funny the first time, maybe even the second, but it felt like every time she entered the scene she was reminding Zora that she wants her to have babies.

I did like her as a character though, and Emma too. The way they were with Zora was so precious. You know the three of them will be tight for life (or until grandma passes, as she liked to remind us).

Aaaaaand I saw the twist coming from the second time Reid talked to Zora, I sensed it during the first time, but confirmed my suspicions that second time and I turned out to be right. It didn't hinder my enjoyment though.

P. S. My aunt's name is Zora!!

4.5

*Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review*

Fun from the first page I really enjoyed this book and all it had to offer. I will be sure to keep an eye out for anything else written by this author in the future as I know it will be a hoot!