BOOK STATS
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Title: Just Some Stupid Love Story
Author: Katelyn Doyle
Genre: Rom Com
Audience: Adult
Format: ALC
Narrators: Christine Lakin, Tim Paige
Length: 10 hr 31 min (336 pages)
Publisher: Macmillan Audio; Flatiron Books
Release Date: June 4, 2024
Source: Publisher
Recommended for fans of: Emily Henry
Content Warnings: abandonment, infidelity, infertility, grief, explicit open door
SYNOPSIS
For fans of Emily Henry, a debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn’t believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their breakup
Molly Marks writes Hollywood rom-coms for a living—which is how she knows “romance” is a racket. The one and only time she was naive enough to fall in love was with her high school boyfriend, Seth—who she ghosted on the eve of graduation and hasn’t seen in fifteen years.
Seth Rubinstein believes in love, the grand, fated kind, despite his job as, well…one of Chicago’s most successful divorce attorneys. Over the last decade, he’s sought “the one” in countless bad dates and rushed relationships. He knows his soulmate is out there. But so far, no one can compare to Molly Marks, the first girl who broke his heart.
When Molly’s friends drag her to Florida for their fifteenth high school reunion, it is poetic justice that she’s forced to sit with Seth. Too many martinis and a drunken hookup later, they decide to make a bet: whoever can predict the fate of five couples before the next reunion must declare that the other is right about true love. The catch? The fifth couple is the two of them.
Molly assures Seth they are a tale of timeless heartbreak. Seth promises she’ll end up hopelessly in love with him. She thinks he’s delusional. He has five years to prove her wrong.
Wickedly funny, sexy, and brimming with laughs and heart like the best romantic comedies, Just Some Stupid Love Story is for everyone who believes in soulmates—even if they would never admit it.
MY THOUGHTS
Dare I say this is a PERFECT rom com??? All of the tropes somehow hit just right. I especially love this take on a second chance romance that doesn’t keep the reader in the dark the entire book on why the couple originally broke up, acknowledging it early and letting the couple move past it as the people they are now.
I also love the way Molly is the grump to Seth’s sunshine. I just adore them forever. They have excellent banter and the book is so funny, but despite the trope-i-ness, it still feels surprisingly real and hopeful. Even some things that normally frustrate me in romance books just worked in this!
Here and there were some phrases that sounded just a bit awkward to me, but overall I just loved this! I can’t wait for more from this author!
While I thought the male narrator sound somewhat robotic (not in a monotone way, but in an android character who doesn’t quite grasp human communication way), but his voice grew on me and worked for his character, and I loved this as an audiobook (I am so sorry, I know that makes no sense, hopefully you get it when you hear it).
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