How to End a Love Story

 11/13/25

I've been listening to this new book that got selected through the spin of my random wheel. This book is the whole enemies to lovers kind of romance. Our two main characters actually don't get a long due to the fact of the lead female character's sister dying. I won't explain how that happened, but I will suggest reading the trigger warnings in the beginning in the book because they just kind of jump right into it. It's a heavy scene and I know it might be too intense for some readers. Anyway the book is okay so far. I feel like it still follows the typical romance formula. Only this time our main female character is a successful author while our main male character is a struggling script writer. They have history involving female character's sister, but they are forced together because the books that our female character wrote are being turned into a movie. That is as far as I got. I just have to listen more in order to see how this book plays out. But so far the book is a little boring at this point. Romance books are kind of getting a little plain for me. Maybe that is why I like reading dark romance more.

11/14/25

It didn't take me long to finish this book when I actually had time to listen to the book. Anyway I will have to say that this book was way spicier than I expected. So with that in mind, I added it to the list for my program at the library I work at. I know the perfect person to give this book to. But other than that, this book wasn't for me. It was a little dull for me. The formula is still the same. Two people fall in love but don't want to admit it. They break up because one gets too scared when things get too serious. Then they live in misery for a while until the one that got scared finally gets the courage to say the right things and everything ends in happily ever after. I feel like I learned nothing from this book. Don't get me wrong. It's a good book, just not for me. I found it boring and like every other contemporary romance I've read. But this is probably the perfect book for one of the people in my program, so I will be handing it to her next month. Sadly the book gets two stars from me. I didn't hate it, but it just isn't for me.