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When Grumpy Met Sunshine
When Grumpy Met Sunshine | Charlotte Stein
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Sharpeipup
When Grumpy Met Sunshine | Charlotte Stein
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My coffeecup came with hand drawn dinosaurs and the following message:

Talk to yourself as someone you love.

dabbe 🧡🤎🍁 1mo
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LiteraryinPA
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Bailedbailed

I‘m 60 pages in and all the awkward back and forth is just too much. Probably if I were in a different mood I‘d stick it out, but I just feel like the author is trying too hard. And if I really miss Roy Kent that much I‘ll just rewatch Ted Lasso. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Pickpick

Thank you so much @underground_bks for the rec! This book got me through last night's insomnia. I am so glad that I started it without looking at the Goodreads reviews, I can't imagine why they are so low, I found this so charming. The ending is a bit over the top - unrealistic but overall it was all good fun which is just how I like my romance books. I do not read a ton & mostly only read Gay ones so this was a fun change!

underground_bks There‘s a follow up coming next year that I read in one day I loved it so much! 3mo
ChaoticMissAdventures @underground_bks I started it last night! It is already funny, this is the best sort of miscommunication trope I can already tell it will be super funny. 3mo
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Julsmarshall
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Mehso-so

This was okay, almost too much banter at the beginning, was a little unrealistic that people in a working relationship would behave that way. So unprofessional. But once we got past that, it was a sweet and funny pairing and I enjoyed the nods to a certain grumpy footballer from Ted Lasso. #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4mo
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CoffeeK8
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Pickpick

I love Charlotte Stein and I loved this book. Alfie and Mable are so lovely, funny and awkward and the friendship they develop along the way is just sweet. Plus I love a good fake dating story and this one really delivers #romantsy

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Booksbymybed
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Pickpick

My romance fix for March. Like a bag of candy eaten in one sitting, it‘s good while it lasts, but also not craving any more any time soon.
It was a fun read overall. The characters were amusing, the banter in Manchester accent kept me reading. There was more spice than I expected, but somehow it was explicit without being super vulgar. Some character inconsistency here and there, some repetition. The usual. I enjoyed it for what it was.

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kissmehardy
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Do I kind of hate this title? Yes. Is it apt? Certainly. Was I charmed by Mabel and Alfie and how they almost instantly realized the other was everything they ever wanted, even if they didn't admit it until the fricking epilogue? 1000%. Not perfect, but definitely a good time. #contemporaryromance #romcom #tedlassovibes

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julesG
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Ex-Footballer Alfie and writer Mabel meet when Alfie is shopping for a ghostwriter for his memoirs. Their first meeting doesn't go well. Neither does their second,...

I really liked the audiobook version of this romcom. I fell for the narrator's voice and the North English accents.

The chapter headlines were funny and interesting, they made me continue listening to the book although I had planned to not devour the book in one go.⬇️

Low pick

julesG I was thinking of giving the book 4 stars until we got to the third act and the seemingly unavoidable break-up. Here based on excessive mis-/non-communication; so unnecessary. Just like good banter, I like a bit of miscommunication in a romance novel, but this felt over the top and quite frankly a bit out of character for both MCs. There is, of course, a reconciliation, but it felt off to me. 3 stars. 10mo
CarolynM Agreed. I think the hardest thing for a romance author to pull off is a really convincing third act. If you believe in the break up you‘ve then got to be convinced all over again by the reconciliation. 10mo
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Reecaspieces
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Mehso-so
Kerrbearlib Love the title! 10mo
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readwithcori
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Bailedbailed

Yikes! I do not take DNF lightly but When Grumpy Met Sunshine was just not for me. Flat and uninteresting banter gave me nothing to be excited about. All I could think about was what book I could be reading instead. So I took that as a sign to DNF and move on. Better luck to the next reader! #LitsyLoveReads

Thank you NetGalley and St Martin‘s Press for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

LiteraryinPA I bailed too for similar reasons. Oh well! 2mo
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underground_bks
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A curvy, bubbly ghostwriter finds herself in a fake dating scheme with a grumpy footballer a la Ted Lasso‘s Roy Kent in this rom-com about being yourself and embracing your softness that‘s as HOT as it is hilarious! Highly recommended for fans of grumpy/sunshine pairs, Cinderella/celebrity romances, when it‘s painfully obvious they‘re head over cleats in LOVE but they‘re total utter numpties/silly gooses about it, and absolutely FILTHY dirty talk.

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