See, the thing about the falling in love montage, is that when it’s over, the characters have fallen in loveįirst off, I just want to say how much I loved the Irishness of this book. I would recommend this book to any YA fans that are looking for a good sapphic romance -with some drama- that will make you feel. And even being 38 years old, I still was able to understand and connect with Saoirse. She has an excellent YA voice and the book felt very authentic to me. This makes me really excited for what Smyth might write in the future. I can’t ever truly explain how hard that was, even more emotionally than physically, but Smyth does a really good job of conveying some of that struggle and heartbreak. When I was the same age as Saoirse, I was helping to take care of my grandmother who had dementia. This was heartbreaking and hit a little close to home for me. For one the main character Saoirse’s mother has early onset dementia. While the romance makes you feel really good, there are some tough parts in this book. There were no real explicit scenes, but the characters are intimate with each other. Because the characters are in the 17-18 age range, just finished high school age, I’d say the romance was a little more PG-13 rated.
THE FALLING IN LOVE MONTAGE MOVIE
This was such a sweet idea and in reading this, I felt like I was watching the rom-com movie about lesbians that I never had growing up. They decided to do the dates and special things that happen in all the most famous rom-com movies. Since both mains know this will only be a summer fling, they want to keep their relationship fun. It wasn’t a total water show for me but I went through a few tissues for sure. I love when a good book can make you feel and yes that included tearing up too. It was filled with teenage angst and drama, broken hearts, friendship, love, it had everything a good YA should have including all the feels. I thought this book was really well written. I mean maybe there was some but I was so immersed into the story that I sure did not notice them. I didn’t see any newbie bumps that I am used to in debuts. This was exactly the kind of YA book that I love to read.įirst, I have to say I was shocked this was a debut. So I realized I had to take an ARC break to read this one and I’m so glad I did. I’ve been dying to read this one and I was asked by a few fellow reader friends to review it. This book was on that list since I purchased it shortly after it came out. This was so good! I have been really busy reading/reviewing ARC’s lately that I have not had any time to even look at my “own to read soon” list. I’m sure that’s the point of her character, to be self-destructive and catastrophizing, but it made her more frustrating to read and a little difficult to believe that the love interest would put up with all of that.Ĥ.50 Stars. One of my pet peeves in books is miscommunication for the sake of conflict, and she unfortunately does that by lying and hiding things from the love interest throughout the entire book, which I felt was unnecessary. There wasn’t much chemistry between the two characters, and the majority of the protagonist’s conflict and angst were self-inflicted. While I appreciate the book covering these topics, I personally couldn’t find myself emotionally invested in the story. The book also balances themes about family by focusing on the main character’s mom having early onset dementia and how that has affected her and her father. The main characters decide to have their own romcom montage, which is cute to see and I hope girls will be able to envision this for their own life too. This is a coming-of-age sapphic YA story that makes a lot of references to typically straight romcoms and involves the characters discussing how LGBT+ movies often end in tragedy.
It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real. Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up-and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms.
She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out.īut after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings.
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