EP. 32: Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

n this episode of "Read Me Next," Carina and Pili discuss "Part of Your World" by Abby Jimenez. They express mixed feelings about the book, noting that while it had potential, it fell short in some areas. TThe hosts critique Alexis's character, finding her unlikable and her actions frustrating, especially in her relationship with Daniel. Despite the book's shortcomings, they appreciate the humor and small-town charm, particularly the character of Daniel and his acts of service. The episode concludes with anticipation for future reads and reflections on the emotional journey of the book.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:07

Welcome to Read Me Next, the Book Club of Make It a Podcast, where we have lots of feelings and no qualifications. What are we reading this week, Peely? We're reading Part of Your World by Abby Humez. Mm-hmm. Nice. I don't know what's with us. Honestly. No, honestly, I was gonna text you, but like I didn't want to put it into the world. So I did not text you this. But I was like, damn, Peely, you passed the slump to me. No. This book? And I was like, it got you in a slump. And I was like, God damn. Why are we reading this? No way, really. Yeah, I didn't like it. Damn. It was okay. I mean, like, it's hard for me to hate something, right? Yeah. But like I was like, it's fine. I'm thinking like our book club is the problem. Not us being three for four. Like, that's so shit. Yeah. I mean, maybe like may we just don't say we have a book club and then we just whatever our last week is. Like, I mean, who's in the book's in the book club anyway? So might as well. I don't know what is going on with these pigs. That's so funny. Yeah, me our book club, that's just me and you. That's literally just me and you know we do every week, basically. To this point is pointless. But it was just not working. No, yeah. I mean, whatever. Let's get into it. It this was on Kid Unlimited. It was on Kindle Unlimited. How many pages is it? And it was about like 370 pages. And it's um like contemporary romance. I was gonna say it's also an age gap. It's an age gap where she is older than him. By nine years. Yep. I feel like that didn't really have an effect on it though. I don't know. Do you think so? My thing is I've said it before, I think I don't really like an age gap when the woman is older. That's just my preference. But I did realize that I do like when a younger guy is just like so mature. Oh yeah. He was put together. No, no. Like he was like, when he's mature and you know, he has this shit together when he is acts of service, when he's like got it going on. He got it going on. I'm like delicious. Okay. Okay, I get it, I get it. Yes, please cater to her every whim. Literally. I realize I like that. Yeah, yeah, it's fine, it's fine. But that could apply to real life. Well. We'll see. We digress. Anyways, this was one of the ones I didn't get to listen to, which was interesting. Me neither. I think I do like it when I can listen to it on the car. Like, I think that's like a big plus for me. Oh. I I don't mind reading it. No, I love okay. You've become an audible girl. I used to say that was cheating back in the day. Yeah. But um, I don't mind reading books either, but I think this, like, when I'm like, all right, I find myself like just like kind of skimming. I don't like that. I mean, like, I would rather read the words, not just like, oh, okay, I see what this chapter's about. Let me just like. Anyway, so what did you rate the book? I rated it like a three and a half. See, okay, we were on the same vibe. No, yeah, like it wasn't the best book. And the thing is, like, a lot of it, like I don't remember what happened. Oh, yes. It was very unmemorable for me. Yeah. And I'm wondering, what was your rating? I wanted to give it a two. Yeah, but I decided a three is fine. Because I did get emotional at some point. And also like a two. So bad. You can't fucking read it. Yeah. So I gave a three. It wasn't that bad. I mean, would you have DNF'd it? I probably could have forgotten about it and been, okay, I'm not gonna pick it back up. But like, I don't think I would have been like, I'm not gonna read this anymore. Like, I all and also like I'm not a I'm not a DNFer. Like, we I DNF'd that book that I was like 12% in when you didn't want to read it anymore. I didn't care. You know what I mean? So there's that. I feel like this one might be yeah, no, I was gonna say like how you had said the other day a book that you like a background read. Mm-hmm. This is one of those for you? Maybe. Maybe if that. But I was also wondering if that. If that. Yeah. I was wondering because this is our second Abbey Humenez book. Yep. We love the first one. Loved, absolutely loved. So good. So you'll remember me. It was very good by her. Yeah. But that one was a little that one was a little depressing. And then this one, like, they were also kind of like in this relationship that was like hard. It was it was like hard to be in this relationship. Yep. So I'm like, are all her books like that? Yeah. Is she like a difficult romance for me? Like, are any I was literally thinking that. I'm like, are any of the things that she writes like easy? Like easy relationships, easy going, easy, you know, easy vibes. I'm wondering. I don't know. Me either. But I do have to say, I think if I would have read this one before the other one, I would have been like, dang, like all this hype about Abby Jimenez, and like she's alright. Agreeing. A hundred percent. I I mean my thing is okay, we can get into it. Oh, well, what did you do your spiceometer? Oh shit. I said like one. I'm gonna go with you on one. Yeah. Okay. So let's get into it. Um, so we have Daniel and Alexis. Yeah, right? Daniel is 28 and Alexis is 37. 37. Perfect. Lexis is this famous doctor. Her family has like 125 years of science, pretty much. Yes. And she basically doesn't really have her life figured out. She's like in a rut of what she wants to do because her parents are assholes. And her boyfriend, her ex-boyfriend at this point, is also a real big asshole, right? So she was driving somewhere and broke down, and somebody got her car out of the ditch, and that somebody ended up being Daniel. And in this little old town, she tried to find somewhere to eat. She couldn't, she ended up at the only place that was open, which was the bar. And Daniel found her at the bar, and there it goes, right? Let's get into spoilers then. So basically, the issue is is she has in she and her family have a 125 years in the hospital setting, but Daniel and the Grant family have also 125 years in this town. He's the mayor. There's always a Grant in this town, and he's an amazing person, and whatever. So he can't leave to go be with her, but she also can't leave to go be with him. They live two hours away. And they live two hours away from each other. But then the entire book, I'm completely over Alexis. I didn't like her. Really? No, like I was not with it with her, and I think that's what like got me really down in this book. Like, I didn't like her. Yeah. I love Daniel. Apparently, Abby Jimenez just knows in Acts of Service King. And she really writes the shit out of that. Yeah, we are two for two on those. Exactly. Which I love that. But like I feel like he was so pushed aside in this book. Yeah, now that you're kind of saying that, it's true. Like, she did not like him. No, she did like him. And she learned a lot from him. Yeah. I don't know. But just everybody in her life was just so sucky. Like friends, her ex-boyfriend, oh my god. He started on those friends. I was like. No, I don't know. The scene when like she goes with the friends to the Grant House and like the friends were so mean. Ew, uh. I was like, and she This is who you are? She was so mean too. Ew. Thanks giving punctuties. No. No, bro. Because she was hanging out with her friends, but talking shit about her friends, like to the reader. Why are you friends with them then? Yeah. I don't know. Like that it was just I feel like she lived a very superficial life. Yeah, 100%. Mm-hmm. Until she met Daniel. Yeah. Like she didn't know what a broom was. Girl. Girly pop. Which I get it. Like people who have the money don't do those things. I completely understand that. She just wasn't doing it for you. No. Like calling her friends entitled, but then like two pages later, we're like, oh, you live in a mansion and don't know what a broom is. You know what I mean? Girl, you are also one of them. Yeah. Also in the beginning, I was like, is he a single dad? I thought we were gonna get like a single dad romance. And I was like, no, when it was the kid, I figured it was it wasn't either his kid or something. It wasn't like a person. Literally, because he kept referring to it as the kid. And I was like, it's a little baby goat. Literally, so cute. No, so what I was gonna say was also apart from this, right, when we were talking about Abby Jimenez, a lot of people like the second book in the series. Is the one with Brie. Yeah. So the second one is yours truly. Um, I saw a couple reviews on Goodreads that said that I only read this to get the background on blah blah blah for Just for the Summer. Yeah. Thinking, like obviously the I the second book is Brie. I'm thinking the third book is Liz and Brian. Maybe. Unless she introduces other people in yours truly. I'm going with Liz and Brian because he used to see her for the summer. Yeah, that's what I thought too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense. It would make sense. But I don't know. I feel like we might have like this one might not have been the best one. You know? Like, I'm not against reading the next ones. I actually wanted to read yours truly after because Brie, I loved Brie when she talked to Daniel. Babitch. What a great friend. Yeah. She gave him friends. Talk about friends. Yeah. She gave it to him 100% straight. And not only that, but it was also everything that Alexis didn't tell him. Yeah. Also, she gave everything straight to Alexis. Like she was like, hey, you know you don't have to do this, right? Yeah. You don't have to be miserable. You know when you were reading The Deep End and you were like, you were like that, the guy ended up being the therapist? Yeah. And that's so that's how I fucking felt about Brie. Yeah. She's like, you have always catered to other people, and it's time that you don't do that anymore. And that was it. She's like, as soon as this hit my soul, I knew what I had to do. And she got up and went to her computer and did this, this, and that. And I was like, and she figured everything out. I mean, I like the solution. I don't know if it's because like I'm I was being too hard on her this entire time, but I was like, you can find a solution, bitch. Like, like you're literally the chief of the fucking hospital. Like you can do it. Yeah. You have all the money. And I'm in my head, I'm like, like, literally just build a fucking location over there. There's no fucking clinic. Yeah. I mean, I figured that's where it was gonna head. But I was like, god damn. Oh god, she was so annoying. Anyways, continue. It's just like she just constantly was trying to break up with me. And then she couldn't, and I was just like, girl. Peely. I literally hated that. The entire She tried to break up with him like three, four times. No, and everybody being Team Neil throughout the entire fucking book. Shut up. Literally Bro, the dad was the goddamn word. Oh, the the devil, I guess. Literally the devil incarnate. I was like, can we get rid of him? Can somebody kill him? Bro, somebody kill them all. I'm over this man. He was pretty much killed off, anyways. Hold on. I have a funny annotation here. So it says here, he went into what sounded like a well-rehearsed tour as he walked me through the rooms. He pointed out the Baroque, antique, monumental Italian wood toll, wall scows, a German wall clock, a 19th-century Victorian hair wreath. And I literally was like, the shining is back. I wrote that down. The fact that, like, I didn't even realize that until you just said it and you read it like that. And I was like, oh my gosh, she's gonna talk about the shining. Like, lady, get it together. No, that I don't know. The shining has impacted me so much. The Baroque style has really impacted you. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Wait, I was wondering if you caught that. That's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

No, I didn't. I can't believe you didn't catch that. No. I literally read that word and I was like, I didn't even know like that's the like the only reason I just realized is because you emphasized it. And I was like, that's the fucking word she said the last episode. But uh if not, I don't know. That freaking audio of the shining, so fucking good. Really good. Anyways. Anyways. So there was a part where so she he essentially takes her to the drive-in, which is so cute. And so Doug was working there and he he was in charge of like the actually pulling up the movie. So they were like about to watch it, and then it goes a message popped up on the massive screen. He must really like you. He begged me to do this, enjoy the show. Alexis laughed. I thought that was so cute. I'm like, yeah, his friends were really cute. I literally everything about the book was great, except for Alexis. Her, just like if we would have just gotten her out, put somebody else in there, we would have been fine. Yeah, put Brie in there. Literally, put Brie in there. Oh, Salvadorian princess. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I did like Brie a lot. No, but Daniel was so funny. There's this part here that goes, she has never done an audiobook. And he goes, You should. It's like a movie for your ears. You could listen on your drive down to see me, which is when again. Like he was so cute. He was like so infatuated. He loved her. I know. Yeah, she really wasn't giving him a lot of time to say. No. The quote of the book, Grace costs you nothing. Love. Love. What a great quote. I really like that. The fact that like she had to keep reminding the people in her life. Hello. Because they were all entitled. Yeah. I really don't like how when her friend booked the Grant House and she went and she acted like she didn't even know him. No, he was so hurt. I was like, yeah, she really was a bitch. I was like, You're not fucking kidding me. You're not acting your age girl. No, she's like, they can't know him because this girl to Neil. Like, bitch. And Neil at the fucking end was like, I'm not an idiot. No. And also, Neil, what a piece of shit, first of all. Neil and the dad were both pieces of shit. The mom, so fucking stupid. Yep. Literally hated the mom. Yeah. Like she was dumb. Yep. But the fact that Neil was living in the house. No, and he didn't know. No, that pissed me off. Because I was like, and her saying, you're not my boyfriend, I don't know. All of these things, I was like, fuck this bitch. No, but at least she referred to him as the boyfriend at the end. That's the least she could do before. No, because then she was like, in her internal monologue, she was like, he would never forgive me. So he's my boyfriend. No fucking shit.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

I could not with that lady. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

She's literally like, who else was this bad? I don't know, but she I think is like my I think if we start a chart, you know, we're gonna start a daddy's chart. Worst FMC, she's my number one. She's number one. I literally hated this woman. I can't. That's so funny. I literally have the like I was highlighting a bunch of stuff about the Gabby and Jessica. Why are these people her friends? And when they started talking shit about him, don't like this. When she started talking about the broom, I was like, seriously, question mark, question mark, question mark. Five question marks. You don't know what a broom is? Fuck Neil. All of my annotations are like bad. Oh, except for this one. Can you guess which part I cried at? Oh, I'm trying to think. I will tell you, it has nothing to do with anything. So there's that. Can you give me a hit? I will say it's the only part where she was like a good person. Uh when she she helped give birth? Yes. Oh. Yeah, when she delivered the baby. That was really cute. Yeah, that's the part that I cried because she was like, there was a the double nucleo cord, and she's like a good, strong cry, and she's like, I smiled, meet Lily. That part was really cute. Yeah. I was crying there. Yeah. Yeah. I really like that of her, obviously, like helping balance people. Yeah, she was really smart. She was like their emergency clinic. It got me really nervous. Oh, yeah, same. There was one part that made me laugh. Oh, when when she was like, but I need the epidural. And I was like, girl, I feel you. And then she was like, Well, now you'll know what it feels like to be a man with a cold. That shit was funny. That was so funny. I laughed at her. Yeah. No, like they were both like funny. But I really also did like that. Doug was training. Doug is one I would love to get a book about.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Really?

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Yeah. Because he was like, you know, in the army with PTSD. He's like a tortured soul. I would think you wouldn't want a book by him. I would. Because he's hilarious. He's so funny. No, Brie was so funny to me. Yeah, no, Brie was hilarious. But Doug was so funny. Well, I mean, at the end of this book, they hinted that Doug liked Brie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you think about like the random little tidbits with the magic? Like the wind gusts and the dragonflies and the acorns. Magical acorns. The only magic that I liked was when all the fucking acorns fell over Jessica and Gabby. I was like, thank you, fuck them bitches. But they were like, it's a hazard. One star. He should have signs up. Bro. Shut up. Shut up. They were such losers. They were losers. But everything else, I was like, no, the other I would read it like this. The other part by her that I liked was when they saw the wood shop and she was like, oh, that's two grand. Oh, that's three grand. And they were like, okay, we'll take it. I was like, thank you. Literally. It's because she knew. She knew these rich people don't give a fuck. A thousand percent. They'll pay anything. Anything. At the end, he said that he was getting the money because he was like, I don't give a fuck anymore. I got no fucks to give. He was like, $12,000, whatever. I'll buy it. Yeah. He's like, okay. Oh, cool. Oh my god, no. You know, so funny that I was cracking up that I put here. Doug goes, I'm coming over. And he goes, What? No, don't come over. I heard a screen door slam. I'm serious, Doug. I don't need you. And he goes, Let me guess. You're taking a top-down shot using the flash, standing in your shitty garage bathroom. You can see your feet in the picture and you're wearing socks. He's like, I didn't know that. Literally, also. And then he was on the phone. He's on the phone with Liz. 15 minutes later, Doug walked in. He had a ring light. No, the ring light killed me. I was dying. That shit was so funny. And he's like, No, he's like, Liz is on the phone or something. He's like, I gotta I had to get the ring light. She's the only one that had a ring light. And oh my god, everybody involved. That was so good. It was really funny. I love that part of the book. Yeah. Like, maybe the best part of the entire book was that. There were funny parts. There was another part where she's talking to uh about Daniel. And so she's like, I bet he folds the towels the right way too, a mythical creature. And then she laughed and she's like, Did you sleep with him, the 26-year-old? And she goes, No, I refuse to have sex with someone who doesn't have a headboard. My vagina has officially been closed too long. I'm afraid a spirit Halloween is going to move in. That shit was funny. That was good. That made me laugh. It's like I love these people. I literally like these were the best part of the book. The Wokan people were really nice. I loved them. It was like peak small town folk. Yeah. I mean, it was given Virgin River, which I know you've never watched, but it really was giving that. Okay, I believe you. She's the doctor that comes into the town to the only clinic available. So this book. I hope it was better than this. And she falls in love with the local bartender. Mm. Class. Mm-hmm. Then I got to the part, I highlighted this. I'm like rolling my eyes because it's like I decided I'd give up my life here to be where she was if she'd have me. Mm-hmm. He was so in love with her. He was very much uh he falls first. You are not my boyfriend. I watched the words hit in like a smack. If I'm not your boyfriend, what the hell am I, Alexis? Goddamn. Fuck that bitch. Yeah, now that we keep talking about it, I didn't really like her. Am I really that fucking embarrassing for you? Oh no, like yeah, she was so mean to him. Oh, look, apparently I cried at another part. Let's see.

SPEAKER_02 18:04

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

Uh, he was depressed. Oh. He goes, Did you eat today, Doug ass? I'd been losing weight, no appetite. He probably noticed it more than I did, not seeing me every day like he used to. It was a moment before I gave him a slow head shake. You gotta eat, man. You get hungry and you're gonna feel worse. And I was like, damn. No. Like that, like not being able to eat, that kills me. Like, that's how I know. Like, they were super depressed. He was super depressed. Fuck her. Fuck her. No, and even like when she broke up with him for good, and he's like, please don't do this, like you're gonna regret it. Like, just regret it now, and we can be together now. Like, just don't do it. Don't do it, please. Literally. And he was willing to do it all. He was wi willing to leave. And he was gonna end up leaving anyways. No, but she would have been such a bitch if she fucking let him. No, at least she didn't fucking let him. God, dude. But they something. I don't know. I I don't know. She didn't redeem herself a little bit at the end. Like she found a solution. She should have done that from the beginning. I d I don't know why that's like so hard. I guess. This is when she had the light bulb moment when she was like, Oh, I have to get Daniel back. It was what Daniel had said last night. When you don't care, everything's on your terms. They can take it or leave it. It doesn't matter to you. So ask for whatever the hell you want. It's not that I didn't care about the hospital. It's that I didn't care more about it than Daniel. We should have figured that out the last time. The biggest eye roll of my life was at that line. Okay? The entire eye roll. Oh my god, no. This part, I'm so sorry. It's just me complaining this entire episode. But let me just click this here because this was so annoying. She goes, but it didn't change anything because I would still move to a con. I was a little more grant than Montgomery, I realized. Bitch. Like, this is so funny that you hate her that much. You're gonna say you're more grand than Montgomery? Yeah, after you broke up with him four times? Like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Not for you. No. All right. I think that's all. Yeah. That's all of my big old complainings. Okay, so essentially what happens is they break up for like the final time. The entire time. Like she was she kept hinting that she wanted to break up with him because she knew it was gonna be hard at the end. And like you said, they both lived in their respective cities/slash towns, and they weren't gonna move for each other. But he would have. But he would have, but she wouldn't let him, which was fine. Good thing she didn't let him. And so essentially she has this epiphany and she was like, oh my god, Bree is right. Daniel's been right this entire time. I can do something about this. So she comes up with the idea to have like a remote a satellite clinic. A satellite clinic in Wacan, and she would take over and she would work from there. They have this like whole they they have like a ball. It's a gala of some sort. A gala celebrating 125 years of the hospital. Her parents are there, she has to give this big ass speech. She finally just like tells her parents off, finally. Finally, God. She was like, Dad, you're the fucking worst. I hate you. Like, get fucked, seriously. And so she gives this whole speech and she's like saying how you know how great it it's been to be a Montgomery, but now she's gonna have like a satellite clinic in Wukon. She invited him and he actually went and he heard everything and then they got back together. And then she moved to WuCon. Yep. Yeah. And it is what it is. They danced together on the dance floor, and she was like, kiss me. And he's like, in front of everyone, because of course he had to ask because she's been a bitch the entire time. He's like, Are you sure? Are you sure you want to do that in front of everyone? I can't.

SPEAKER_00 21:20

That is the funniest thing ever.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

It's like, are you sure in front of everybody? Oh my god, she was the fucking worst. So funny, yeah. She literally hated him. That's too funny. Well, I don't know. And now the second book is supposed to be about Brie. And I'm like, I would read a book about her. Like, she I really liked her. She seemed like she had a good head on her shoulders. Yeah, she was funny as fuck. Mm-hmm. But yeah. So you we don't know who Brie's partner is? I mean, I looked at it. I know who it is. Who is it? Can you tell me or no? Yeah. I just didn't know if you wanted to know. Yeah, yeah, no, I do want to know. It had said doctor something something, so I'm thinking it's the Doctor for her brother. Not Dr. Doug. No, it wasn't Dr. Doug. It's fine. It's fine. You want to do Goodreads? Yeah, let's get started. It's gonna be the worst episode we've ever been.

unknown 22:10

It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

It's fine.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

I mean, oh my, because Fix Her Up was funny.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

Yeah, Fix Her Up was talking mad trash. Mad trash. It's because you kind of like liked it in the beginning, this book. We were both like, fuck this shit. And the other one. All right. I was feeling when I looked through the Goodreads reviews, it was like either way. Like it was a hit or a miss, you know? So this is a five-star. I'm just slapping my head so hard. Why did I wait so long to jump into this marvelous journey? I'm telling you, my friends, this is the best Abby Jimenez book. Absolutely her best work. It just like, like I said before, if I would have read this first before Say You'll Remember Me, I would not have read that. Oh, and that would have been so bad. That would have been such a terrible mistake. Yeah, to not have read that book. To not have never read that book? Oh. Like I would not even think about it. I know, right? God, okay. Let's not even think about it. Next. But then I feel like also, like, maybe we have to give Allie Hazelwood an I don't know. Like, what if we missed out on a saying you'll remember me by Allie uh Hazelwood? I highly doubt it. Okay, I was gonna say, you really think so? No. Um, okay, so this one's a one star. She says DNF at 59%. I really tried to finish this book. Like it had so much potential to be good because the ratings are so high, but I felt like it was about to put me back into a slump because of how boring it was, and the FMC was unbearable. She treats Daniel like a child because he's 28. Um, he literally knows more than you do, so pipe down. He's not young. And also, how does she have a medical degree but is so helpless with life? She didn't even know what a fucking broom was. The MMC literally had to show her how to clean cook. Like, be for fucking real right now. It's me right now, this entire episode. Alexis, I hope you go broke, and I'm stealing Daniel from you because you don't deserve him, you ungrateful witch.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

But honestly, I feel like I read a completely different book to everyone else, LMAO. Yeah. This part was funny because like the one part I liked about the book, and don't get me started about the ring light and dick pic chapter situation. Like, who gives a fuck about the angles and lighting? It's not gonna make it any better. And why was his girl cousin giving him advice on how to take a fucking dick pic?

SPEAKER_01 24:08

Oh, come on, guys. Yeah, the one good part of the book. So this is a five-star. It says, I love this book. My first ever Abby Jimenez book, and I'm excited I now have a new author to read. I love that the conflict in this book is so realistic. I had no idea they were going to resolve it, and which had me on the edge of my seat and made it that much more heartbreaking. I also loved all the small town characters. One of my favorite things about small town romances is the found family feel, which this book has. True. True. I will say that. And also, that's what I was saying, like about the conflict. Like if all her books are very conflicted. If she has any cutie batootie fucking easy relationships, if all her comp what is all her books are conflicted? Yeah, that was funny. Yeah. But it's true. Yes. Like very real life situations that could happen. Yeah. I don't know about that. I know. Are we gonna be depressed? Like a roller coaster of emotions every time. I feel like that's my issue. Like it was it took too long to get res I mean, it was resolved in like the last two chapters. Like it's crazy. No, but like what I think is, you know, a lot of the times we'll read these books and in the relationships, like they'll be fine and dandy the entire book, then they have the third act breakup and then they get back together. But this was like the entire book was like breaking up. They were on and off the whole time. They was on and off the entire time. This is a three-star. It says, This was fine. It was definitely cheesier than yours, truly. I mostly just read it because I wanted to know the backstory of all the characters before I read Just for the Summer. Interesting. This is a five-star. It says, It's been a minute since a book has made me feel this giddy and emotional while reading. I want to go back and annotate literally everything. I'm in love. I mean, I love when a book makes you feel like that. No, yeah, 100%. Like that's what I was so excited to say you'll remember me. Oh my god. It's amazing. Yeah. I remember reading that one at 2 a.m. Like, that's how I remember how good that book was. It was so good. Yeah. We locked in for that one. We for real locked in. Okay, this is like a 2.5 review. I didn't feel any connection between Alexis and Daniel because their relationship often felt one-sided. It was clear how hard he was trying to make it work, but Alexis, on the other hand, was so sure it wouldn't that she didn't even bother trying. Like, babes, at least show some effort. It's such a bummer that my first Abby Jimenez book didn't work out for me. Alexis frustrated me so much that I just couldn't enjoy the book. That was me. Like, as I went, I was like, I like don't even really want to do this anymore because she's so fucking annoying. She just didn't do it. My last one, one star. I am a forever hater of this book. I don't care. Yep. Damn. Yep. I don't know. Like, when was the last time we read like a cutie contemporary romance where we liked the guy? I mean, it should have been Fix Her Up, but we know how that went. Absolutely not. Mr. Tubats. Didn't love Mr. Tubats. Absolutely the fuck not in clown girl. Hell mouth. Clown girl. That was the last contemporary romance, right? I think so. Ugh. Because like going from Bad Bishop to this. No. Going from Twisted Pawn to this? No. No. Like these men are not it. I mean I mean no. I mean, Daniel was so it. I I did really like Daniel. Yeah. But the book itself wasn't it. The book itself wasn't it, but like, I don't know. I just loved Bad Bishop. That book was so good. It was so good. Like, and this was so not. No, it was so not. I think I decided to give Bad Bishop a six star. Really? Yeah. We thought about it? Yeah. It was really good. Yeah. I literally, the the fact that I recommended it to at least three other people already, I'm like, okay, Karina, this is your six star. Yeah. Yeah. I loved that book. Did you give Say You'll Remember Me six stars? I don't remember. I don't know if we were we doing six stars back then. I that was the first six star I gave. Oh. I don't remember, but I feel like at this point I could. Okay, so the six stars we've had so far, I've said Say You'll Remember Me and Fourth Wing. And now Bad Bishop for You. Bad Bishop for me. But yeah, this was not it. I'm so annoyed. But I mean we have we have things to look forward to. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. We got Rose Hill. Um literally cannot wait to read that. I think I'm like honestly the most hyped for Rose Hill. Like the fact that we haven't read that yet. We read Chestnut Springs like 10,000 years ago. Yeah, it's like almost a year. Can you believe that? Crazy. Can you believe we're doing our podcast for like more than a month? Can you believe there's more than three episodes? What? Yeah. I don't know what episode this is, but it's crazy. I don't know. Love. But yeah, no, Rose Hill, I'm so excited. And Hoopla has the audios now. Yes. I freaking love that. I'm so excited to read them. I just love immersively reading. And I got the physical books. Oh yes. I don't know. I we'll definitely read another Abbey He Menace at some point. I think so too. I mean, it's just so hard because you we read Say You Remember Me, which we were like die hard fans over. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like she has to have more great things. No, and my thing is I don't think it was like the writing, the writing I liked. Yeah. Just the character. No, no. It was definitely the characters. Because the story, like that was kind of cool. It made sense. I think it just went on for too long. You know, without a solution happening. And it might have been like how that one review said. It was very, very one-sided. Super one-sided. Like, I love when a man begs for their woman and you know does all those things, yearning. I love the yearning. Mm-hmm. This was like she like didn't even respect the guy. Like that's true. Like, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. I don't know. I hated the part where like she was just so embarrassed of him. She was so embarrassed of him. No, when he saw it and clocked it, it was like, damn. That's actually so funny that you said that at the ball. He was like, Are you sure? In front of everyone. I mean, no, because like he was literally dead ass. He was traumatized. He was traumatized. No, and oh no, it literally broke my fucking heart when he went, when she got the job, and he went to surprise her with the flowers, and the dad was laughing at him. Yeah, what a fucking bitch. And the girls were like, hee hee, snickering, and like the other texting her her husband already. No. Neil was the only decent person in that fucking bunch. So imagine if Neil's the only decent person. Literally, if you're the only decent person is an abusive person, what are we doing with all these? Why are we surrounding ourselves with all these people? Yeah, all the people are trash. I felt so bad for him. And he's just like, he was so sad. No, but like composed. Yes, he was so composed. Like the way he was like, I'll see you later. Oh, Borisito. No, so sad. I could cry right now. Literally, I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? No. At least, like, he didn't stoop in that for a long time. And Brie was like right outside and was like, bro, I'm the only one that matters. And she was like, Are you Daniel? She like knew everything about him. Are you Daniel? She's like, basically, I know everything, but she wouldn't show me the dick pics. That was hilarious. She was cute. I like that. I was like, can you guys just get together? Who needs Alexis? Brie and Daniel. Now kith. Now they kiss. I'm dead. Oh my god. But yeah. Alright. Well, it is what it is. It is what it is. I'm excited for next week. Yeah. God. Can't wait. I just like can't wait to stop this. Anyways.

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