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SPOILER ALERT:

Poppy wants to kiss Alex??? And she still has the audacity to think of him as a friend???


GIRL, WHAT ARE YOU DOING????

Okay time to add Alex Nielsen to my very short list of book boyfriends!! Cause I swoon every time he compliments Poppy!!

Also, yeah, I still believe that Poppy has always been in love with Alex…that’s what makes me so annoyed haha 😂

SPOILER ALERT:
“What would it be like to kiss him? How would he touch me? Would he taste the way he smells?”

Friends don’t think that way Poppy!! How do you “like someone wayy to much to date them” and you think a thought like this? What???

Poppy’s head resting on his shoulder on the plane, ten summers ago, and they were just friends???

How is that something you do with someone who is just a friend??

I’m 100% convinced that Poppy has been in love with Alex. I don’t buy this “he is just a friend” bit that she keeps saying. Cause how are you going to say “thank you, freakishly taut belly, for feeding this person I love” and just call him a friend??

What happened in Croatia??? I’m going insane!!

We are making some progress!

So far…the story is good. But it’s been a year since I read one of Emily Henry’s books, so it’s taking me time to get used to her writing style again 😂😅

So here’s the thing…I put too much pressure on myself to finish this before the new year, that I ended up in a mini reading slump. Taking a short break from it to read People We Meet on Vacation, but I’ll continue it. There is so much drama between Magnolia and BJ…it’s actually driving me crazy!!

If I’m going to give an initial rating (after reading a quarter of the book), so far it’s giving 3.5-3.6 stars out of 5. Hopefully this rating changes later…but we shall see…

Omg, that’s such a scary flashback. BJ od’ing from cocaine, and this was his second time! The whole scene is full of chills! Especially when he tells Magnolia that he loves him and she says it back too…stop!!!! I’m actually crying!

Okay so now for Magnolia’s list of men she dated, we have: Christian, Brooks, Breaker, Reid (and on again off again BJ)

Yet she still wants to have her weird situation/friendship (whatever we are calling it) with BJ while seeing other people…girl, you can’t have your cake and eat it too!!

I take back what I thought about Marsaili, she is definitely not like Dorota from Gossip Girl

I genuinely hope I’m wrong but Paili is mad suspicious now! When Magnolia is telling how rude it is for BJ to be bringing Taura to an event (the girl that we think BJ cheated on Magnolia with), why is Paili going “We don’t know that.”

I still don’t believe that Taura was the one involved…but if it ends up being Paili…then that would be too easy to figure out! I hope it’s not Paili!!

So finally the reason to why BJ and Magnolia has come out. BJ apparently cheated on Magnolia with someone. Magnolia is assuming it was Taura (BJ’s new girl at her mother’s event), but something tells me it’s not Taura that he cheated on her with…

Okay so we have Christian, Brooks, and now Breaker (also on and off with BJ)…how many guys has she dated? I’m actually genuinely curious 🧐

One thing that I’m learning about being an aspiring author is that it’s important to read. I was dealing with a writer’s block with one project I’m working on. All it took was to just keep reading and also watching different rom com shows to get me to write again…but now I’m starting a new project too. I’ll be writing my first and second project in tandem. They will be interconnected standalones.

I know I’m only five chapters in, but I’m still so confused. I am still not sure how BJ and Magnolia ended up breaking up and what BJ did to hurt her. At least we got a little context on the relationship tha Magnolia and Christian had (as a flashback indicated that BJ hated seeing them kissing in the club and proceeded to beat up Christian — now they are good post the flashback)

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the reason Magnolia and BJ didn’t workout (how he lost her) was maybe because of cheating…but also I think it’s too early for me to make that assumption.

But also BJ is like a total man-w***e. He will literally sleep with any girl. He literally just got another girl’s number (the waitress at the restaurant he is at).

"On-again-off-again couple Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine caused quite a last night at Annabel's as the pair run into one of Parks's many ex-lovers - unnamed-"

Literally sounds like a blast straight from the Gossip Girl blog haha

Also, absolutely love Marsaili, she reminds me so much of Dorota from gossip girl haha 😂

Okay, I need to know why Magnolia and her dad Harley don’t get along. Apparently he doesn’t act like a dad to Magnolia?

Need more context…😅

Okay, after reading part of this flashback, it seems like they were such a cute couple and that they were always meant to be with each other. What happened to them?? Like what did BJ do to break Magnolia's heart??

I hate to say it...but I am hooked...once again...

Oh god…Bridget Parks (Magnolia’s sister) is snappy! Though she is being very real with Magnolia…and the constant comebacks she has…I’m dead 😂

""How many fights do you need to get into before you understand that it's too late. You lost Magnolia a long time ago." That's what he'll say to me tomorrow morning."

Well...you keep going back to Magnolia and hanging out with her...and she keeps coming back to you...I'm so confused.

Yeah…this book is pissing me off…and that was just chapter 1

No no no….Magnolia, you have no right to be mad at Brooks for bringing a girl to dinner when you literally just said you are here with “several men” and also BJ f***ing spent the night at your place for 3-4 nights before you and brooks broke up.

The double standard I swear! Magnolia, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Okay this line stood out;

“Something to hide behind and call upon when being just best friends with my best friend momentarily stops filling the void loving him made me in the first place.”

It’s actually kind of sad because you can kind of tell that Magnolia really loves BJ, but it seems they will never be in the same place…what am I getting myself into??

Wait now I’m confused…Brooks doesn’t know that BJ stayed 4 nights at Magnolia’s place while they were still together..?

Magnolia is insufferable…because what the f***??