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Fancy Meeting You Here by Julie Tieu

Fancy Meeting You Here by Julie Tieu

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Not going to write a super long review here. This was a very good romance. I honestly gave it 5 stars since it made me smile and we didn’t really have to deal with the main character (Elise) being ridiculous and stirring up a fake fight in the third act. I liked Elise and I liked her romance with Ben. I also loved that for once, we get a romance novel that also focuses on the female friendship of the main character. The core plot […]

The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu

The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu

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My kingdom for a 5 star romance. Finally! This was so good and needed. I was despairing you guys. I just wanted something romantic, with a plot, and a main character I could root for. This is not my first book by Tieu and it won’t be my last. I just started re-reading her backlist since I enjoyed The Girl Most Likely To.  Be warned, you are going to get frustrated with the main character of Jas, but root for her throughout. We get a […]

The Girl Most Likely To by Julie Tieu

The Girl Most Likely To by Julie Tieu

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. “The Girl Most Likely To” follows Rachel Dang, who got “The Girl Most Likely To Succeed” in high school. A few days before her high school’s 20th reunion, she is laid off and is forced to become an assistant to her friend Nat, who is on the rise in Hollywood. Rachel wants to go since she feels stuck and is wondering about the guy she used to have […]

He wouldn’t be shocked if there was a spreadsheet on her laptop about him listing the pros and cons.

Circling Back to You by Julie Tieu

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One of my greatest disappointments of adulthood was realizing that there is no point at which you have your life completely figured out for all time. In every decade we find ourselves considering our priorities and our choices.  After reading her debut, The Donut Trap, I think I can safely assert that Julie Tieu writes characters who are figuring out how they want to be in the world really well. In Circling Back To You, Cadence Lim and Matt Escanilla are at a point in […]

Circling Back to You

Circling Back to You by Julie Tieu

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Initial thoughts: Cute enough but not very deep. There’s a fake girlfriend/boyfriend trope going on though the two characters are sleeping together so no idea why they need to fake dating? I don’t know. This didn’t hang together well at all. I found the both characters were a mess, but I disliked how Matt was manipulating Cadence because he in the end wanted her to move for him. […]

“If the measure of success was that I was living a more comfortable, easier life than they had, then why was I simultaneously penalized for it?”

The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu

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I picked up The Donut Trap, put it down and then came back to it. Initially, it was presented as a romance, and it really isn’t, so I had to recalibrate my expectations. It is an absolutely lovely, nuanced, coming of age story, and I’m so glad I read it. Jasmine Tran is a recent college graduate who has stagnated. She barely managed her degree and instead of starting a career and blazing a trail, she is living at home and working in her parents’ […]



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