Susan’s Book Blog

  This book should be called  Romeo & Juliet Get a Happy Ending This book is amazing. I smiled and laughed and squeed my way through the entire thing. I may have even cried once or twice. I have nothing to nitpick about it. Absolutely nothing. The premise was unique and the plot was compelling. The characters were fantastic from top to bottom. The dialogue is some of the best I’ve read. The pacing was perfection. And it totally puts the “com” in “rom-com”. It was SO funny I was dying.  I’m in awe of how Abby Jimenez makes writing characters with such depth and humanity look so effortless. So much of the book is normal romcom romance and angst and relationship drama but she elevates the whole genre when she works in topics like privilege, status, grace, kindness, and integrity.  It also deals with the heavy topics of emotional abuse and domestic violence in a smart and sensitive way.   That’s part of what makes this book so special.   This is a dual pers...

  I got to read the first four chapters of the upcoming Abby Jimenez book Part of Your World  (pub date Apr 2022) on NetGalley tonight and I was super impressed. I’ve never read anything by Abby Jimenez before (I know, shock, gasp ) and now I feel like I definitely need to explore her back catalog now. Her writing is so good! The pace of this one is snappy and the characters (Alexis and Daniel) are interesting and hilarious and smart and very easy to like. I liked everything about what I read. I’m in. I will definitely be preordering this one.