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I just don't care about this protag. I skipped a bunch in the middle and when I picked it back up, she's still sad about her divorce even though she's started casually dating. Nothing about this was interesting to me.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to read this (both right to left in pages and in panels). It was cute and I've already checked out the next one from the library but I'm interested to see if there's any acknowledgment that this is m/m or if they're both just never going to address why Minegishi likes to feed Otsu and why Otsu gets flustered by Minegishi.

this was awful. I read it only because I wanted to revisit Dubai but this could have been set anywhere, with one mention of the burj khalifa and a sandstorm out in the desert. More than it not really highlighting dubai, I realized I don't like romances where both characters are fighting with each other the entire time. Sometimes divorce is ok! You don't always have to make it work! The H/h were both really cold to each other and I wasn't convinced by their love story even at the end.

Not bad, not great. About exactly what's expected from a chick lit roman-a-clef, no surprises. I would like to know who Sasha is supposed to be and how close Cricket's Devil Wears Prada experience aligns to deux's actual background.

Exceedingly silly.

I liked this house party storyline more than some of the other storylines Raybourn has done in the past. Finally getting somewhere with Stoker!

With Less I wasn't sure I liked it until I got to the end. This one, I'm still not sure I liked it, even after finishing. I think it didn't capture the same magic Less did, which I guess is fine, but sort of disappointing when Less won the pulitzer and this was just ok.

I was about 80% done with the book when I realized the author was the same person who wrote The Hating Game which I ultimately liked but had a lot of problems with the author's writing style. So when I realized it was the same person, the issues I was having with the writing style in this book made sense. The book itself is fine, I see a fair amount of other people wrote reviews complaining about the ethics of creating/reanimating a person specifically to love you. I didn't have any issues with this because it's fiction. I don't need it to be ethically correct. My issue is Sally Thorne never gives any setting information in her books. She does the barest minimum to set the scene and I find it distracting that I don't know what anything looks like.

This was the longest 272 pages I have read in a long time. How did this woman write such a boring book? I think I can see how it probably wasn't meant to be boring, but it sure was for me. Fully agree with all the other reviewers that there were too many characters and too hard to keep who was who straight. I know it's a debut book but I'd have to really know any future book is better than this to waste time on this author again.