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GDL Series #2
Almost, But not Quite
(GDL # 2) From strangers to friends. From friends to close friends. From close friends to lovers.
When Joey met Psalm, she didn't think that they'd ever be together. Paano ba naman, ex niya ang best friend nito! Psalm had seen her at her lowest, and she didn't think that there's a possibility of them being together... Pero habang tumatagal, mas lalong napapalapit ang loob niya dito. But how could they be together if he couldn't trust her?
Trust... parang isang maliit na bagay lang, pero kapag wala sa isang relasyon, hindi mo alam kung hanggang kailan magtatagal.
When Joey met Psalm, she didn't think that they'd ever be together. Paano ba naman, ex niya ang best friend nito! Psalm had seen her at her lowest, and she didn't think that there's a possibility of them being together... Pero habang tumatagal, mas lalong napapalapit ang loob niya dito. But how could they be together if he couldn't trust her?
Trust... parang isang maliit na bagay lang, pero kapag wala sa isang relasyon, hindi mo alam kung hanggang kailan magtatagal.
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March 27, 2022
ANG SAD TALAGA KASI HINDI NABIGYAN NG HUSTISYA YUNG FEELINGS NI JOEY HUHU I MEAN GUSTO KO NAMAN SILANG DALAWA NI PSALM PARA SA ISA'T ISA KASO PARANG ANG BILIS NG TRANSITION NA KAKABATI LANG TAS NAGPROPOSE NA HUHU DESERVE NI JOEY NG SORRY AND PAKIKINIG NI PSALM KASI NAMAN HUHU
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 20, 2019
I want to pursue med school because of Joe... and Marcus. But of course, team Psalm!
March 27, 2021
*SPOILERS AHEAD*
This actually started out great and I was even thinking that it's gonna be a favorite. I even thought of rating this 4 or even 5 stars. However, now I'm just 2 stars? 2.5? 3?
To clarify, I love the friends to lovers trope, especially if it's a slow burn, which is pretty much how Psalm and Joey's relationship started. I was loving it so much. I'm a huge sucker for those tropes combined.
But, oh god, everything just went down the drain for me because of the following:
1. the love triangle/third party element. It's my least favourite. I still read books with such themes but I don't seek them out. Though I kind of already saw that coming since 90% of Beeyotch's books that I've read have love triangles. I liked Marcus in his story since I read his book first and thought that he was just gonna be a second lead that would make Psalm a little jealous in this story, but boy was I WRONG. I honestly felt like he was unnecessary here and just made the story worse. It also made Joey downgrade as a character, which really sucked because I liked her.
2. the cheating. Oh god the cheating. I really hate it when one of the main characters cheat on the other. If the cheating was done in the beggining, I wouldn't have read this, so I felt whiplashed and sort of betrayed when it was acted upon when the book was about to end. WTF was that? I hated it. Despised. Abhorred.
3. there were so many issues between Psalm and Joey that weren't resolved and were pretty much swept under the rug when they got back together. Maybe in the published version these problems were addressed? I'm not sure, but in Wattpad, they were not. I just...hated where their relationship went. I thought that they were gonna be one of my favorite couples but they just became toxic and problematic. I couldn't even be genuinely happy with their happy ending. I thought that it would've been better if they didn't get back together. I wouldn't have minded that. Or if they spend more time apart after they had "the talk" to think things through.
4. how the characters developed as the story progressed.
Joey brought out the worst out of Psalm and it was disheartening. I don't really know how to feel about her anymore. I really enjoyed knowing her, you know? But ugh. The choices she made. I resent her for them to be honest. She should've distanced herself right from the beginning when she felt that she was developing feelings for Marcus.
Admittedly, Psalm wasn't perfect, and I think that it he should've waited first until Joey was ready before confessing, but when they did start dating, he was good to her and for her. They actually had a good relationship going on. He didn't deserve what Joey and Marcus did.
And Marcus? He should've walked away. But I gues that's how human beings are? They often act on their feelings before they give themselves time to think things through. He was still an asshole and a relationship wrecker though.
God...just....this was such a mess. A trainwreck. A clusterfuck. Everything just became so unhealthy. I love flawed characters, but this is not it chief. The only character development here is them developing their characters for the worse. I'm just really disappointed. And I'm also disappointed that this was disappointing.
5. the abrupt and chaotic ending UM WTF? WAS? THAT?
Nevertheless, I'm still gonna give this 3 stars because I liked the first half of the book and I genuinely enjoy Beeyotch's writing style. I'm just gonna erase the second half from my memory and pretend that it never happened. In my mind, the book ended when Psalm and Joey first got together.
Ps. I rarely write long rants/reviews nowadays so given how long this became, you betcha I was emotionally invested lol
This actually started out great and I was even thinking that it's gonna be a favorite. I even thought of rating this 4 or even 5 stars. However, now I'm just 2 stars? 2.5? 3?
To clarify, I love the friends to lovers trope, especially if it's a slow burn, which is pretty much how Psalm and Joey's relationship started. I was loving it so much. I'm a huge sucker for those tropes combined.
But, oh god, everything just went down the drain for me because of the following:
1. the love triangle/third party element. It's my least favourite. I still read books with such themes but I don't seek them out. Though I kind of already saw that coming since 90% of Beeyotch's books that I've read have love triangles. I liked Marcus in his story since I read his book first and thought that he was just gonna be a second lead that would make Psalm a little jealous in this story, but boy was I WRONG. I honestly felt like he was unnecessary here and just made the story worse. It also made Joey downgrade as a character, which really sucked because I liked her.
2. the cheating. Oh god the cheating. I really hate it when one of the main characters cheat on the other. If the cheating was done in the beggining, I wouldn't have read this, so I felt whiplashed and sort of betrayed when it was acted upon when the book was about to end. WTF was that? I hated it. Despised. Abhorred.
3. there were so many issues between Psalm and Joey that weren't resolved and were pretty much swept under the rug when they got back together. Maybe in the published version these problems were addressed? I'm not sure, but in Wattpad, they were not. I just...hated where their relationship went. I thought that they were gonna be one of my favorite couples but they just became toxic and problematic. I couldn't even be genuinely happy with their happy ending. I thought that it would've been better if they didn't get back together. I wouldn't have minded that. Or if they spend more time apart after they had "the talk" to think things through.
4. how the characters developed as the story progressed.
Joey brought out the worst out of Psalm and it was disheartening. I don't really know how to feel about her anymore. I really enjoyed knowing her, you know? But ugh. The choices she made. I resent her for them to be honest. She should've distanced herself right from the beginning when she felt that she was developing feelings for Marcus.
Admittedly, Psalm wasn't perfect, and I think that it he should've waited first until Joey was ready before confessing, but when they did start dating, he was good to her and for her. They actually had a good relationship going on. He didn't deserve what Joey and Marcus did.
And Marcus? He should've walked away. But I gues that's how human beings are? They often act on their feelings before they give themselves time to think things through. He was still an asshole and a relationship wrecker though.
God...just....this was such a mess. A trainwreck. A clusterfuck. Everything just became so unhealthy. I love flawed characters, but this is not it chief. The only character development here is them developing their characters for the worse. I'm just really disappointed. And I'm also disappointed that this was disappointing.
5. the abrupt and chaotic ending UM WTF? WAS? THAT?
Nevertheless, I'm still gonna give this 3 stars because I liked the first half of the book and I genuinely enjoy Beeyotch's writing style. I'm just gonna erase the second half from my memory and pretend that it never happened. In my mind, the book ended when Psalm and Joey first got together.
Ps. I rarely write long rants/reviews nowadays so given how long this became, you betcha I was emotionally invested lol
July 11, 2022
least favorite GDL series. I've expected so much from Psalm's character knowing how fun he is in the other books but in his own story???? meh. Sama ng loob at sakit ng ulo lang binigay sakin nito.
April 27, 2022
“𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆? 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒏𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓.”
“𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝒑𝒂𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝒌𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒈 ‘𝒅𝒊 𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕?”
“𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏𝒕. 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏. 𝑨𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅. 𝑨𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅’𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅.”
I cannot even properly explain how I feel about this book. So many emotions. 🥹
This book tackles about how cheating can affect someones life. How they cannot trust someone even if their love for each other is stronger, still the thought of cheating hinders it. It’s hard to read it especially if you experienced cheating before. I personally experienced it and it can absolutely ruin your image of guys/girls especially in this era where everything seems to be a “play” of feelings. Constant thoughts of "what if it will happen again?" What ifs can REALLY ruin everything. When someone comes to me and is “genuine” I would always push him away thinking “oh maybe he’s just bored" or just thoughts like “I’m not good enough. I don’t want to be cheated again.” I have trust issues okay. I just don’t want to experience that type of hurt again bcs it really hurts like hell. But yeah thats life. You can't control everyone especially their feelings. ESPECIALLY their feelings. It's you one day and suddenly it's not. 🫠
.
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I enjoyed this book and the lessons it teaches us, such as to never belittle a persons capacity to love you just because he's/she's understanding and forgives you easily, how he/she is always there for you and puts your needs ahead of their own.
.
.
I sobbed, screamed, and giggled while reading this book, and one of the reasons why I like it so much is that one of the characters' experiences is one that I can relate to.
.
.
+ I particularly enjoyed the barkada's relationship in this story. How one person can be “gago” but is still there to confront that person and also advise them. They don’t disown that person immediately. I also appreciate how they don't take sides in deciding who to believe. 💗
“𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝒑𝒂𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝒌𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒈 ‘𝒅𝒊 𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕?”
“𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏𝒕. 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏. 𝑨𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅. 𝑨𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒈𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅’𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅.”
I cannot even properly explain how I feel about this book. So many emotions. 🥹
This book tackles about how cheating can affect someones life. How they cannot trust someone even if their love for each other is stronger, still the thought of cheating hinders it. It’s hard to read it especially if you experienced cheating before. I personally experienced it and it can absolutely ruin your image of guys/girls especially in this era where everything seems to be a “play” of feelings. Constant thoughts of "what if it will happen again?" What ifs can REALLY ruin everything. When someone comes to me and is “genuine” I would always push him away thinking “oh maybe he’s just bored" or just thoughts like “I’m not good enough. I don’t want to be cheated again.” I have trust issues okay. I just don’t want to experience that type of hurt again bcs it really hurts like hell. But yeah thats life. You can't control everyone especially their feelings. ESPECIALLY their feelings. It's you one day and suddenly it's not. 🫠
.
.
I enjoyed this book and the lessons it teaches us, such as to never belittle a persons capacity to love you just because he's/she's understanding and forgives you easily, how he/she is always there for you and puts your needs ahead of their own.
.
.
I sobbed, screamed, and giggled while reading this book, and one of the reasons why I like it so much is that one of the characters' experiences is one that I can relate to.
.
.
+ I particularly enjoyed the barkada's relationship in this story. How one person can be “gago” but is still there to confront that person and also advise them. They don’t disown that person immediately. I also appreciate how they don't take sides in deciding who to believe. 💗
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 23, 2025
⭐️ 2.5
god i don't even know how to start this review.
first of all, i'm so pissed at everyone. kahit kay psalm na favorite gdl ko so far (kay saint and psalm pa naman nabasa ko lol) kasi ang tanga at bobo niya. it started so good... then things started getting messy. the cheating subplot shocked me so bad i was convincing myself na baka miscommunication lang. pero totoo pala. idc if technically marcus did it, joey still emotionally cheated on psalm, simula nung she thirsted over marcus. seriously, i didn't even expect that from joey. what the fuck.
i'm good with flawed characters. it gives them depth. but this one, nakakagalit lang. kay psalm, gets ko pa siya. sige tanga ka, go. he deserved way better than joey, but sadly he wanted her. 'di rin deserve ni kia if ever. ayun lang talaga. pero for joey... i don't know. it's so hard to like her. gets ko 'yung katwiran niya for owning up the cheating na hindi. like okay, maybe it's good you owned up to it kasi alam mong if you didn't get caught baka maging totoo, but at the same time, why not be transparent with psalm? i guess that's what i was waiting from her.
they got together with communication still being a very big issue for the both of them. they keep on pushing and pulling from each other kasi alam nila, especially joey, that they're not ready yet. that they needed time apart to be better for each other. pero itong ang obvious na 'di sila ready, with psalm even doubting joey, with insecurities from years ago, nag-propose pa?
with marcus... gets ko pa sana siya nung una eh. nagmahal lang siya. you can't really force to stop your feelings for someone (kaya nga tanga pa rin si psalm). but he crossed that boundary with joey and he left joey to carry all that burden when it was both their mistake.
3-4 stars sana 'to pero sobrang inis ako na endgame pa rin sila. 'di 'to deserve ni psalm christian broccoli gomez de liaño 💔
god i don't even know how to start this review.
first of all, i'm so pissed at everyone. kahit kay psalm na favorite gdl ko so far (kay saint and psalm pa naman nabasa ko lol) kasi ang tanga at bobo niya. it started so good... then things started getting messy. the cheating subplot shocked me so bad i was convincing myself na baka miscommunication lang. pero totoo pala. idc if technically marcus did it, joey still emotionally cheated on psalm, simula nung she thirsted over marcus. seriously, i didn't even expect that from joey. what the fuck.
i'm good with flawed characters. it gives them depth. but this one, nakakagalit lang. kay psalm, gets ko pa siya. sige tanga ka, go. he deserved way better than joey, but sadly he wanted her. 'di rin deserve ni kia if ever. ayun lang talaga. pero for joey... i don't know. it's so hard to like her. gets ko 'yung katwiran niya for owning up the cheating na hindi. like okay, maybe it's good you owned up to it kasi alam mong if you didn't get caught baka maging totoo, but at the same time, why not be transparent with psalm? i guess that's what i was waiting from her.
they got together with communication still being a very big issue for the both of them. they keep on pushing and pulling from each other kasi alam nila, especially joey, that they're not ready yet. that they needed time apart to be better for each other. pero itong ang obvious na 'di sila ready, with psalm even doubting joey, with insecurities from years ago, nag-propose pa?
with marcus... gets ko pa sana siya nung una eh. nagmahal lang siya. you can't really force to stop your feelings for someone (kaya nga tanga pa rin si psalm). but he crossed that boundary with joey and he left joey to carry all that burden when it was both their mistake.
3-4 stars sana 'to pero sobrang inis ako na endgame pa rin sila. 'di 'to deserve ni psalm christian broccoli gomez de liaño 💔
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September 11, 2021
3 Stars!
This is just one of those friends-to-lovers romances that I loved! Going from friends to lovers is always the best. Watching the romance between Joey and Psalm develop and grow was so beautiful. But when Marcus entered the picture, oh boy, everything went downhill! It was a mess, tbh.
I'm really undecided whether to give this a 4 or 3-star rating, but since I found half of the book quite good and the other half utterly frustrating and the ending seemed abrupt? Yeah, giving this a 3-star.
This is just one of those friends-to-lovers romances that I loved! Going from friends to lovers is always the best. Watching the romance between Joey and Psalm develop and grow was so beautiful. But when Marcus entered the picture, oh boy, everything went downhill! It was a mess, tbh.
I'm really undecided whether to give this a 4 or 3-star rating, but since I found half of the book quite good and the other half utterly frustrating and the ending seemed abrupt? Yeah, giving this a 3-star.
August 23, 2022
kakainis si joey here gusto ko sana sila ni marcus pero goods na din kasi si niles nakatuluyan ni marcus and super cute nila hehez not fan of their lovestory pero ok naman goods naman i love the author, e
December 5, 2022
i love college vibe and friend circles. lol this one's a painful rollercoaster. still, loved everything about it. having someone witnessing your imperfections but still capable on loving and accepting you. am not patronizing cheaters lol. reader must have an open and wide understanding this story.
December 13, 2022
was actually enjoying the first half, even thought this was going to be my favorite in the series but the second half lost me i didn't like how the story was progressing and the cheating was a big no + joey downgraded as a character
October 31, 2022
the cheating was a no no to me
November 9, 2022
pinkskies neysh.
hate: cheating plot
hate: cheating plot
October 3, 2023
It started out great and I was so in-love with the characters however the ending felt rushed. It did not justify what happened and I wish there's more to the rest of the story,
October 4, 2023
3.5 ⭐
September 27, 2024
Most stressful GDL
November 6, 2024
I think Psalm deserves better after what Joey did to him.
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May 28, 2019
Almost but not quite 5 star. lol
Love this story surely. Mej nahilo lang ako sa way of narration, that's why.
Also nagulat lang ako sa ending, I mean it was HEA but the way it ends or the last scene is abrupt. Like 1 minute you were enjoying the scene then the end. Just my thought, but still I enjoyed it.
Love this story surely. Mej nahilo lang ako sa way of narration, that's why.
Also nagulat lang ako sa ending, I mean it was HEA but the way it ends or the last scene is abrupt. Like 1 minute you were enjoying the scene then the end. Just my thought, but still I enjoyed it.
August 7, 2020
the exposition annoyed me but thats okay nalang :') joey and psalm together gahd i miss them
February 7, 2022
SUPER WORTH IT BASAHIN. SUMAKIT ULO KO KAKAPROBLEMA SA PROBLEMA NG CHARACTERS GOWDLUCK MGA B
March 5, 2023
[2.5 Stars] ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Honestly loved the book at the start & I thought I was going to give this 4 or 5 stars but aaaaa everything in this book just went downhill as the chapter goes on. 😵💫
I started this knowing this was a “friends to lovers” trope wITH CHEATING. I honestly didn’t know what I was expecting because one, I am not very fond of the friends-to-lovers trope in general, and, second, cheating. That’s it. I’m pretty sure no one is a fan of that trope or whatever. So yeah. 🏃🏻♀️
To be honest, I speed-run the last 5 chapters of this book because I just honestly want to get over this book already and bury it under my brain & archived it in my library. Because their relationship just got worse & worse I was so tired of it. ❕
Anyway, I don’t wanna add anything anymore. Just that, this book isn’t for me. Hahaha. Goodbye. ✌🏼
Honestly loved the book at the start & I thought I was going to give this 4 or 5 stars but aaaaa everything in this book just went downhill as the chapter goes on. 😵💫
I started this knowing this was a “friends to lovers” trope wITH CHEATING. I honestly didn’t know what I was expecting because one, I am not very fond of the friends-to-lovers trope in general, and, second, cheating. That’s it. I’m pretty sure no one is a fan of that trope or whatever. So yeah. 🏃🏻♀️
To be honest, I speed-run the last 5 chapters of this book because I just honestly want to get over this book already and bury it under my brain & archived it in my library. Because their relationship just got worse & worse I was so tired of it. ❕
Anyway, I don’t wanna add anything anymore. Just that, this book isn’t for me. Hahaha. Goodbye. ✌🏼
June 21, 2021
This is the book I wanna reread yearly but it always got me into 'I Watched Him Fall for Someone Else'. Hahaha.
December 29, 2022
As far as I remember, Joey cheated. A big no for me but I don't really quite remember more so might change once I reread.
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