“But it’s really just hit me. I’m 30 and life is happening all around me, and I can’t spend any more of it doing what looks like the right thing just to keep some imaginary observer happy. I’ve only got one life, and I want to start living it now.”
Genre: Romance
Actual Rating: 3 stars
Content Warnings: Discusses racism and discrimination.
“We Met in December” follows Jess and Alex, a mismatched pair of flatmates that grow a friendship out of walks around London. Jess had an instant crush on Alex, but 1) There was a no dating policy between flatmates and 2) He was already dating someone else—she thinks. And Alex just made a huge life change, leaving his profession as a lawyer and going back to school to be a nurse, so he’s supposed to focus his energy on anything but dating. Taking place in a year, this book is magically written but also painfully slow.
The characters are lovely but not too memorable. I almost DNFed at 75% because I was not engaged in the story yet—but by 88% it had won me back. For this reason, I can’t rate it any higher than 3 stars. I loved the ending but hated the getting-there part. This seemed more like a plain fiction book, not a romance book.
I would recommend this book to fans of Woman’s Fiction. This is the slowest burn I’ve seen in a romance, if you can even call it that. The ending was worth the wait, but it’s up to you if you’re willing to stick it out. You’ll barely get a few pages of romance out of this.
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