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I really would have liked Hanna’s mom to put the kdrama people in their place for being so rude to her daughter in their own home

Side thought - what exactly is Jacob's mom doing to find a job of her own so her teenage son doesn't have to give up all his joy and freedom to support the family?

I appreciate Hannah's mom trying to cheer her up, but I do think it reflects on the father's love if he's able to just basically abandon his family for work, and I do think its risky to encourage your 17 yo daughter to commit herself to a long distance relationship with someone who has to fake date other women...

Girl! So smart and so dumb at the same time! No sense of self preservation!

I’m so annoyed with Ruby just caving with her father - get mad! Defend yourself and your husband! Wishes she’d stuck up for herself instead of needing Asher to do so.

Plot twist! She isn’t as much of a ninny as I thought but I don’t know if I believe this was always her plan.

He’s a duke! His mother is a dowager duchess. He controls the purse strings and calls all the shots. Exert your control dumbass!!

The FMC of Christi Caldwells novel is a ninny. A nitwit. A dumbass. She learned nothing from her reunion with her husband and is about to flee the same damn way hurting him all over again

How is he staying?? This makes no sense. What is his father going to think when he doesn’t come back? What about his sister? I’m too adult for this plot twist

This is the strangest plot to see the main characters play side character roles in the biggest moments.

Ok so on the Wikipedia page for disneys sleeping beauty it does say it’s set in the 14th century so I guess it’s not crazy for the MC’s to keep referring to the setting being in the past instead of another universe

Honestly Stella’s inability to remember any story line of any media she has consumed is boggling unless she’s got that thing where you can’t mentally visualize stuff? Because that can affect memories.

I don’t understand why they keep referencing the 1400s and that their from the future as if that’s more probable than saying their from another world? It’s not like fairies or these people ever actually existed?
Also, for all of Stella’s planning she is weirdly avoidant of using the knowledge resource that is Reece given how many times he’s watched the movie

This FMC is tedious but I have to keep reminding myself she is a teen and this book is probably about making her less annoying in the long run.

This FMC is a giant PIA know it all. I’m actually rooting against her at this point for the picture sh*t show

And as to dinner she should have said "You'll eat what I make and like it or not eat at all"

the unexpected arrival of Shelby's mom has me wanting to yell at the FMC via audiobook; she should have called her mom out and refused to do any more filming until her mother was gone

They make a joke about Alcatraz being closer and I thought “if only you knew what the sh*t show president would be proposing in 5 years…” sigh.

It's weird to me that Dillon refers to his mom and grandma as his "ladies"; I suspect that Katy's 2nd relationship was originally flushed out more in the plot and editing resulted in it being struck because the sudden discussion of it later on was a bit shocking.

Ok but why were these two wearing jean shorts/tshirts/jeans to a wedding rehearsal dinner??

Fanny price is insufferable. She is weak and meek and lets everyone walk all over her and then when she gets an inkling of courage it’s without any forethought or plan or manner to protect herself. It’s driving me bonkers!

Trying to remind myself the FMC is a teen and constantly yelling “that was dumb!” regarding some of her decision making is unnecessary

Much better narrator even if it’s a guy doing the full narration!

16% before the MMCs (or at least the FMC) came across as something slightly less than completely out of touch in their approach to obtaining faux children

So the first story is very sweet and also very light on steam (kisses only). Also never resolved the FMCs lack of financial resources that was proclaimed to be a necessity for the duke. But I’m happy the blonde got her comeuppance and with this pairing choice .

Narrator Susan Duerdon? Is good for the basic narration but makes the girls sound chirpy/goofy. I don't know how to explain it.

2nd chance romance and marriage of convenience and now only one bed?? Checking off the tropes left and right (but in a good way)

Fantastic narrator; quirky and fun and seems to hit the narrative beats really well. Only complaint is sometimes it feels like she slips into a pattern of tones for both of the characters where the inflections feel repetitive in the middle of a long internal thought process but its infrequent so I can mostly ignore it (also this may have made zero sense to someone reading it)

I was struggling with the FMC sorting out the time difference between Amsterdam and her family in LA, thinking the author had it totally wrong until I remembered that the US springs ahead a bit earlier than UK/EU and this book clearly starts before the start of DST. (So, like a week ago)

I very much enjoy the chapter headings