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Happily Never After
Happily Never After | Lynn Painter
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Their name? The objectors. Their job? To break off weddings as hired. Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other. When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fianc has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dads cutthroat boss, she doesnt want to be the one to do it. Her savior comes in the form of a professional objector, whose purpose is to show up at weddings and proclaim the words no couple (usually) wants to hear at their ceremony: I object! During anti-wedding festivities that night, Sophie learns more about Max the Objectors job. It makes perfect sense to her: he saves people from wasting their lives, from hurting each other. Hes a modern-day hero. And Sophie wants in. The two love cynics start working together, going from wedding to wedding, and Sophies having more fun than shes had in ages. She looks forward to every nerve-racking ceremony saving the lovesick souls of the betrothed masses. As Sophie and Max spend more time together, however, they realize that their physical chemistry is off the charts, leading them to dabble in a little hookup session or twobut its totally fine, because they definitely do not have feelings for each other. Love doesnt exist, after all. And then everything changes. A groom-to-be hires Sophie to object, but his fiance is the woman who broke Maxs heart. As Max wrestles with whether he can be a party to his exs getting hurt, Sophie grapples with the sudden realization that she may have fallen hard for her partner in crime.
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Julsmarshall
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Great premise, complicated characters, delightfully delicious romance! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #romantsy

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! This one is on my TBR. I've really enjoyed some of Painter's other books. 5d
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themonaisa
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Lynn Painter - my favorite author!!! She is a master at chemistry and real, cravable dialogue. I wish I had a friendship like this. What a fun, creative story & super cute characters!!! Another win!

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Sarahreadstoomuch
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This was an impulse I grabbed off the shelf at work because of I had to read a book I hated (not even going to post about it) and wanted something light and fun. So, this absolutely worked for me in the way I needed.

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romcombc
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Happily Never After makes you laugh, makes you think, and most of all makes you realized that certain ideals are not black and white. We are allowed to live, love, and lose but by our own definitions not those placed upon us.

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Erinreadsthebooks
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Ok, no. The two characters didn‘t seem to have any actual connection beyond ‘you‘re hot and I‘m hot and I can‘t stop looking at your lips.‘ I feel like they didn‘t really know each other at all. Secondly, I cuss like a sailor but reading the F word as an adjective randomly in back to back paragraphs when it‘s really not necessary to the story is off putting. There were opportunities for the characters to develop, but I gave up at halfway.

eskoch28 I'm halfway through this one and I totally agree! 5mo
Erinreadsthebooks @eskoch28 I had high hopes! It started so strong and just fell off. 5mo
eskoch28 Ugh I hate that. I'm an Erin too!! 5mo
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dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo
Erinreadsthebooks @eskoch28 My mom named me Erin after a tv show called The Waltons. I‘ve never seen it, but the daughter was “Erin” and Mom liked it 😃 5mo
eskoch28 Love that! 5mo
Allyneedsbooks @Erinreadsthebooks❤️ How did I not know this fascinating fact!!! I loved The Walton‘s. 5mo
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julesG
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#RomCom a bit #LoveAtFirstSight a bit #FriendsToLovers and a lot of not so #FakeDating (for the work-life-balance that gets them the promotion)

Liked the idea of their meet-cute: Max is the hired objector at Sophie's wedding.
Loved Sophie's flatmates. 😂😂

#52bookclub24SummerReadingList #BalanceBeam

Sharpeipup Really enjoyed the premise of this book. 5mo
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MaggieCarr
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Memorable meet-cute! 👏👏👏
BANTOR 100% 👏👏👏
Satisfying friends to lovers 100% 👏👏👏
Superb elderly roommates/side characters 100% 👏👏👏

Could see this being a wonderful movie but would likely need to take out some over the top descriptive love scenes and tame them down a bit.

KadaGul Well, if you cut ✂️ out of bread 🍞 and butter 🧈 of the author's work, who will read 📖 a G/PG rated Romance novel 🤣🤣. 6mo
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ShananigansReads
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#ShananigansReads24

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Sharpeipup
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Interesting meet cute.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 7mo
Ddzmini 🤣🤣🤣… I need that 🙌🏽🤨👩🏼‍🦯‍➡️ 7mo
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Arvena
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The chemistry between main characters was fantastic. The banter was funny. Snarky and breezy writing. It was not as perfect as Better than the Movies, but it was a good rom-com 😄

julieclair Sounds fun! Added to my stack. 8mo
CaramelLunacy I loved Better Than the Movies, so am hoping to pick this one up 8mo
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thewallflower0707
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My parents and I visited my sisters family in Dresden over the #Easter weekend. I bought Happily Never After, my fourth Painter book, at the big Thalia store close to the Old Town. Unfortunately, I really prefer her YA novels. The younger characters just fit her writing better.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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Kristy_K
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My 2nd Painter novel, & unfortunately, her books aren‘t for me. I struggled w/ the lack of chemistry between the characters. I didn‘t feel their connection at all. While the plot could have made for some great moments (Sophie & Max are “professional” objectors at weddings), this played a minimal role in the book & the majority is spent w/ them ignoring their feelings or Sophie trying to rationalize falling in love as being something else.

#botm

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Laughterhp
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Haven‘t been on Litsy in a while! And so behind on reviews. Picked this one up as soon as it came in the mail from #BOTM. Quick different type of romance story where they break up weddings together.

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marleed
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Sophie and Max have become friends and side-gig business partners in the most unexpected of ways. Both have people with expectations that each couples-up with someone. They don‘t need to go as far as fake-dating, fake we‘re-just-friends should suffice. … The story driving the romance is a hoot, and I do wish more of the story was given to that layer rather than Sophie and Max spending so much time in their own heads contemplating the other.

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