Actual review 3.5⭐ rounded up to 4.

I love a book that makes me laugh and this one made me laugh...A LOT! This is a story told in letter format. Roxy starts by writing a letter to her ex boyfriend turned roommate giving him the rules that he will have to follow if he is going to live with her. And from there the author takes you on a fun hysterical ride!

Such a fun, easy read! A little predictable in spots, but I was able to overlook that, because of how the book was written.

Thank you Netgalley and Simon and Schuster for a copy of this ebook in exchange for my honest review.

A funny, light-hearted read. This was a great book that kept me wondering , what in the world, is Roxy going to do next! Sometimes it seems like embarrassing situations just seem to happen to certain people much more than others, this is Roxy. Recommend!

Clearly the author is trying hard to satirize something. Or write a love letter. Not sure which.
The protagonist rambles in such a way that makes the book occasionally draggy.
It's all tied up in a fairytale ending.

While sometimes slow this book was actually pretty great . The story is told in a series of letters between the protagonist and a former boyfriend. This book was graciously provided by the publisher via netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I feel like I really connected to Roxy I liked this read and the letters and the way it was set up as like a letter and a journal entry.

I am shocked that I didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would. I found the letters to be difficult to read; not because of the way they were written but because I found them hard to relate to. I understand that the purpose of the letters was to be kind of cringey but it felt wrong like I was reading a very broken girl's diary.

The Roxy Letters was a fantastic read! It has a certain Bridget Jones Diary quality to it . There were laugh out loud moments as Roxy tries to navigate through live, love, and saving her town of Austin from becoming gentrified. Her story takes the form of letters she writes to her ex-boyfriend and sometime roommate Everett..

Roxy's life is far from perfect she is not happy with her current job, her lack of solid finances, her bleak love life, and the fact that her artistic talent has been stifled by a horrible break up. She sees her one chance to make a difference, by staging a protest of a new box store , so Austin can stay the unique way it has been.
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Roxy and her two friends personify the idea of strong women, with the speed bumps of real life. Boyfriends, jobs, and entangled relationships are cause for laughs and tears and an overall sense of the lives of young women today.

LOVED reading about Roxy's adventure in my beloved ATX! I spend a lot of time at the intersection of 6th and Lamar and because of that, and because I went to college in Austin, and have been here over 30 years, and share Roxy's dream that our town keep "weird" that I enjoyed this book. The story is fun and the ending is wonderful. I think Mary Pauline Lowry should have left out some of the "edgy" sex stuff, which I found somewhat offputting. I'd like to suggest this book to all my girlfriends, but am too embarrassed about the sex to make that recommendation.

The Roxy Letters follows main character, 25 year-old Roxy, on her journey to find herself among Austin’s ever changing trendy town. The book is entirely written as letters to Roxy’s ex-boyfriend/roommate. To be honest, this isn’t my favorite novel set up, but it was not difficult to follow and seemed to flow well. Roxy is a bit of a hot mess, which makes her at times, frustrating and overall lovable and relatable (even for my thirty-something self!). As Roxy’s story progresses, I found myself rooting for her success and because I’m a hopeless romantic at heart, I liked the love story part of Roxy’s life and letters! While I wasn’t on the edge of my seat with anticipation, the novel kept me engaged and interested until the end. I won’t forget Roxy anytime soon and have to chuckle when I think of how she handled several real-life lessons that we all have to learn. The Roxy Letters is great entertainment, as every novel should be; allowing readers a first row seat into the deep, honest and witty thoughts of Roxy.

A sincere thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Fun epistolary novel that follows, Roxy, Whole Foods deli worker, artist. She gets into lots of scrapes but her good heart wins out in the end. The very definition of a romp.

Thank you Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for giving me an ARC copy of this book.

Ahhh..I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book, which is odd, considering it's very light-hearted.

As you may have figured out from the title, <i> The Roxy Letters</i> is written entirely in letters by Roxy, our 28-year old protagonist, to her ex-boyfriend and now roommate, Everett. At the beginning of this story, Everett has just moved in; and thus, the letters mainly consist of house guidelines that he must abide by. But soon after, the letters become more journal entries for Roxy. In fact, only the first few are actually left for Everett to read.
These journal entries make it clear Roxy is in a bit of a rut. She is an artist, but hasn't painted. Her only (meager) source of income is from working an unfulfilling job at Whole Foods as a deli maid. Her sex life is non-existent since she her last messy relationship. Her best friend got promoted to a much higher position working on "the fifth floor", where Whole Foods headquarters is located. Lastly, her hometown of Austin is changing before her eyes--small businesses are dying and being replaced by bigger corporations, raising the cost of living for everyone, and taking away Austin's charm. This latter issue is, ultimately, the catalyst that motivates Roxy to get her life back on track and to do what she can to stop gentrification in downtown Austin.

While I love the elements of feminism and humor interlaced in Lowry's novel, I can't help but feel the writing fell flat for me. I know, as a reader, there is only so much character development to be expected from a book written entirely in letters/journal entries, but it definitely made my initial feelings toward Roxy (which, btw, were primarily negative) remain stagnant throughout the book.

Probably my biggest criticism is regarding the ending. For a "feel-good" book, the ending was VERY rushed. I'm fairly convinced that I read the results of a page-limit constriction, in which Lowry and/or her editors decided to cut corners on Roxy's last few journal entries, rather than removing even one of the countless times Roxy discussed making sacrifices to her goddess of choice, Venus (I'm serious, lol).
This book probably won't change your life, overwork your tear ducts, or inspire you. However, in the off chance that you just finished <i> A Little Life</i> by Hanya Yanagihara and are in desperate need of a light, fun book, this might be a good one to check out next.

Roxy's letters to her roommate detail her daily life in a compelling, outrageously witty way. The heroine jumps off the page as we read her laugh-out-loud funny accounts of her adventures, her tribulations on her job and her frustrating love life. Or a "lack of love" life. If you enjoyed the TV show Girls and love Sophie Kinsella and Bridget Jones Diary, you will love this book!

It is the back and forth email format that I found hard to follow and keep my interest. I had little if any fondness for the lead character. It is tedious and self involved. The plot did not hold my interest and I struggled to finish and in the end I was glad it was over.

I wanted to love this book; I read it fairly quickly - which is usually an indication that it's a great book I can't put down. In this case however, it was more "read it quickly to get it over with."

Roxy is a one dimensional selfish brat of a character. There was a lot of room for development, but nothing was ever done with her. Her routine whining and "oh woe is me" attitude becomes redundant and obnoxious.

The repeated use of full names, like "Brant Bitterbrush" lent more to Roxy being portrayed as a bitter and juvenile ex.

I don't think I'd ever recommend this book to anyone for entertainment reasons, possibly for "I have a few days and I need to waste them."

I wanted to love this book, I just really didn't.

I was excited about reading this book the first words of the description compared to Bridget Jones. Sadly I found Roxy both annoying and frustrating. This was not a fun book to read and I struggled throughout it.

The Roxy Letters took me a long time to really enjoy, but I admit, but the last third of the book, I was hooked! The book is a series of misadventures and comedy of errors, which were way over the top, but were light-hearted and fun to read. It's a very thinly-veiled take-off of Bridget Jones' Diary, only an odder concept of writing letters to a roommate, 90% of which he never reads. She even quotes dialogue in her letters, so it's a big stretch to follow.

An easy read, lots of fun, that might try a bit too hard to be shocking.

Thank you Net Galley for the ARC for a fair and honest review.

I really wanted to love this book. The cover was catchy and the description was interesting. However, I just couldn't get into the story. The entire book was nothing but letters from the main character to her ex-boyfriend, and while I can appreciate that being a cool concept, I felt like the story was lacking substance. Some of the letters dragged on and on about how mundane her day was or her life in general. I guess I didn't appreciate how one sided it all was. We never really hear from the other character (the ex). The writing was good, and there were some funny and quirky parts to the story that I liked, but I found myself becoming bored while reading. While this story may be great for others, it just wasn't for me. I received an ARC of this book for an honest review.

ARC kindly provided by Simon & Schuster via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!

Wow, I can honestly say that this book is unlike any I’ve ever read. Quirky, full of heart, and sometimes just plain weird, diving into the world and mind of Roxy was an experience.

So what is this book about?

Twenty-eight year old Roxy is in a slump; after a rough break-up and betrayal over a year ago, she feels romantically and artistically blocked. To make matters worse, she's still working in her menial deli maid job at WholeFoods after 3 years when she was sure that she'd be making her art full time by now. Oh, and her ex-boyfriend is now her new roommate. That's not awkward, right? A proud Austin native and lover of all the weird that comes with it, Roxy finds a new passion when a beloved local business gets replaced by a Lululemon, sparking a fire in her that starts her personal fight against the gentrification in her hometown. Roxy, along with her two best friends, decide to tackle this fight head on, and along the way just might find new friendships, healing, and even love.

The Roxy Letters is the kind of book that throws you in head-first (literally) into the crazy brain and life of our main character. Written in letters to her new roommate / ex-boyfriend, Roxy chronicles her struggles at work, her romantic failings, and so much more. And while the letter formatting of the book was difficult to adjust to at first, I ultimately began to enjoy seeing everything from Roxy's biased POV, even if it left me wanting to know more.

If you aren't familiar with Austin, this book gives you an inside look at all the beautifully-weird people that make the town so unique: there are quirky local businesses, offerings made to Venus and Mars, sex cults, and so much more that make every adventure and twist of Roxy's life so hilarious, and it'll leave you so curious to find out just what will happen next.

What I love so much about this book was the focus that it put on positive female relationships. One could argue that this book is about Roxy finding love, or getting back in touch with her artistic side, or even saving Austin, but I would argue that this book is first and foremost about friendship. The book begins with Roxy down on her luck in every way, and while it takes us the whole book to wade our way through each aspect of her life, it is her new friendship that starts the book off beautifully and spring-boards Roxy into her adventures. The consistent love, support, and growth that comes out of the multiple female friendships in this book is so empowering, and speaks to the true healing that can be found in a good friend. If it were up to me, I would've loved to see these friendships be focused on even more in this book.

"There is so much cultural hype about boyfriends and husbands, but I am starting to think that having good girlfriends really is the greatest thing on earth"

Unfortunately, sometimes these beautiful relationships took a backseat to Roxy's quest for love (or just a reprieve from her year-long man drought). While lots of points surrounding this plot led to many hilarious encounters, I felt like this plot was the most confusing, mainly because there were just so many men. Add that to the fact that the letters themselves (while they eventually just become a diary and she doesn't give them to her ex) are written to her ex-boyfriend, and you've got a very convoluted love map. Yet even though this part of the plot was a bit messy, it was incredibly relatable as well. Roxy's struggles with love and sex are the struggles of so many millennials that you can't help but nod your head along and say "yep, I've been there!"

All in all, this book leads you on an Austin-weird journey through Roxy's life that will make you laugh, warm your heart, and give you hope. Buckle up for a lot of hilarious shenanigans, soul-searching, epiphanies, and beer.

Thank you Netgalley for sending me this arc. I will be reviewing this book in the near future with an honest rating and review.

Roxy is in her late twenties and she hasn’t quite found her way. Set in Austin, TX and told in the form of letters to her ex, The Roxy Letters is a fresh take on the classic rom-com.

As someone who lives in Austin I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere and name dropping of some of my favorite places and Austin’s staples.

Roxy is hilarious, not always so self-aware, and a bit judgmental when you get right down to it. But she loves her friends, has real passion for bringing down “the man”, and while she IS afraid to try new things, she does it anyway; see the chapters on orgasmic mediation.

This book had me laughing out loud on more than one occasion and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a good palate cleanser. Think Bridget Jones with a little more confidence and a whole lot of funny quips.