I decided on these pretty quickly as I knew I had a lot of books lined up for review, and once again some of these were not ones I solicited.
The Fallback by Eleanor Goymer
I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
The Fallback by Eleanor Goymer Published by One More Chapter on April 11, 2024
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Pages: 384
Source: the publisher
Format: E-galley
My Rating:
Goodreads
A back-up plan between friends. But what do you do when you’ve fallen for your fallback?! There is no rulebook for secretly falling in love with your best friend. So when Mitch offers Rosie a bargain that secretly gets her what she’s been pining for… Rosie would be a fool to say no, right? They either find their soulmates by Christmas, or be each other’s fallback. Either way Rosie she finds someone that will finally get her over Mitch, or she can be with him. What she didn’t bargain for was Mitch falling for someone else…
My Thoughts:
There was just something I didn’t care for with Mitch after we had a jump to the current day. The way he was constantly playing the field and completely unconcerned about it. I wonder if we’d had his POV if I could’ve understood him more. Not to mention how quickly it was them getting together as roommates at the beginning. The way she just kept talking about his looks, yeah, it just didn’t work for me. Others might like it, although most of what I’ve read on Goodreads kind of agrees with my thoughts.
Secretly Yours (A Vine Mess #1) by Tessa Bailey
Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey Series: A Vine Mess #1
Narrator: Callie Dalton
Published by Audible Studios on February 7, 2023
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Length: 10:49
Source: Purchased
Format: Audiobook
My Rating:
Goodreads
A steamy new rom-com about a starchy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn...
Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to their small town. When Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. But the grumpy professor isn't the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. One wine-fueled girls' night later, Hallie can't shake the sense that she did something reckless--and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. Oh shit.
On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. She's eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt--and so unbelievably beautiful, he can't focus on anything else. Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past. Even as Julian wonders about this admirer, he's sucked further into Hallie's orbit. Like the flowers she plants all over town, Hallie is a burst of color in Julian's gray-scale life. For a man who irons his socks and runs on tight schedules, her sunny chaotic energy makes zero sense. But there's something so familiar about her... and her very presence is turning his world upside down.
My thoughts:
So this is the second book I’ve tried by this author, and once again I was kind of bored. Plus the third person POV doesn’t help when I’m not getting into something. I think this is my sign that Tessa Bailey books, no matter how adorable the covers are, are not going to be for me.
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Sometimes that is how it is. I am particularly attracted or off some genres in cycles. I’m sort of off romance except for my favorite authors, and very on scifi or mystery.
I get that! I used to be all about books like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, etc. Now I’m all about romance and still YA with my job. But even my tastes in romance have changed a bit over time.
Yep, sometimes an author’s writing style doesn’t work. I’ve enjoyed Tessa Bailey. I really enjoyed her Bellinger Sisters books: It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line and Sinker, but I haven’t read much of her newer stuff besides those. I feel like Anne right now, I’m kind of more into mystery, thriller, fantasy instead of romance. Except for my favorite authors. I’m all for DNF-ing if a book doesn’t work for me. I just don’t have the time to waste on something I don’t love!
I’ve got so many books on my TBR that I just need to be reading the ones I’ve bought, lol. So I don’t waste time if I’m just not feeling a book. I always feel just because I don’t like it, doesn’t mean it’s not good, someone else might love it, so I will DNF and not give a bad rating.
Sometimes its a character in a romance just not behaving so I can buy into the romance and, yes, sometimes writing style just isn’t for me. Glad you gave them a go, but were able to set them aside for something else off the stack.
Yeah, a lot of times writing style doesn’t work. But it’s my personal opinion of course, other people often prefer what I don’t like.