How lucky are we to have Abby Jimenez?! All of her books make me cry but this one is especially heart wrenching.

I absolutely loved this story. Abby Jimenez’s books progressively get better and better. Youtube star meets criminal defence attorney, add an old rescue dog and a foster baby and you get a heartwarming tale about how opposites attract. These characters are flawed in the very best ways. They feel real and like friends you would meet for a cup of coffee... Or a really nice dinner from a local restaurant. This book deals with addiction, terminal illness, adoption and more. All handled quite delicately. One thing I really appreciate about this book is the fact that Vanessa's potential ALS diagnosis wasn't eradicated. While she wasn't currently dying of ALS, the threat was still possible in the future.

Abby Jimenez is back with another smart and sassy romance novel, y’all. Vanessa Price is a famous YouTuber, and Adrian Copeland is the gorgeous lawyer who lives next door. What happens next is pure magic. Read this when you are in the mood for a love story with wit, charm and depth. It is utterly charming, irresistibly adorable and smoking hot all at the same time. It is The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez meets Love Story by Erich Segal. Best paired with a bottle of 2010 Chateau Lafite Rothschild Pauillac. Thank you to @netgalley and @grandcentralpub for the advanced copy. Out 4/6 and available for pre-order now!

Absolutely adored most of this, but there were a few tiny things that bothered me, like how most problems ultimately end up getting solved by money. But still, I thought it was great and funny. The clickbait chapter titles were especially well done.

I think this is my new favorite book from the series.
I say that about every book and then she comes out with a new one.

I love how Abby brings serious topics to life in her romances.
She brings awareness and diversity in such a respectful manner.

This was romantic and heartbreaking.
It was midnight and I was sobbing in bed.

I am going to pre-order myself a signed copy and read my review copy at least once more before release.

I just love Abby Jimenez! I love her ability to touch your heart on so many levels, so much more than just a romance novel. I would recommend all of her books - this one was absolutely beautiful!

Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez was so absolutely beautiful! While I have read the other two books in her friend zone series and enjoyed them, this one blew me away! I loved Vanessa and her entire dysfunctional but incredibly lovable family, and Adrian is everything you look for in a “hero”. The beautiful message to live every day to its fullest and embrace the one life we have been given is one we all need to remember. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever Publishing for the opportunity to read this book for a honest review.

Another great book by Abby Jiminez. Her writing style makes it so easy to get sucked right into the book and not want to put it down.

Vanessa believes she has limited time left on this earth and does not want to waste one minute. One problem, she unexpectedly winds up with her sister's baby and is now stuck in her apartment. She's committed to helping her family, for as long as she possibly can. In comes her hot, mysterious neighbor, Adrian. Adrian is a dedicated lawyer and works 80 hours a week, not giving much way for a social life. He is also unfamiliar of Vanessa's YouTube fame. They quickly become friends and eventually fall in love. There is lots of angst that makes it a great friends to lovers romance book. Vanessa holds back her suspected diagnosis from Adrian and this causes conflict later in the story.

I absolutely loved and enjoyed reading Life's Too Short. Overall I would give it 4.5 stars - A slight deduction because I had hoped that we would have found out the diagnosis earlier in the book than when we did.

I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this book. Although the first half dragged a bit with the whole “will they, won’t they, just get it on already”, the ending was over way too quickly.

This book, like Abby’s other books hit me in the feels and made me cry TWICE. I enjoyed having the TFZ and HEAP crew drop in.

I was very impressed with the ALS research for this book - I mean, we all know about the ice bucket challenge but this definitely was very thorough.

The book is predominately about Vanessa who may or may not have ALS and has decided to live each day as much as possible - while dealing with her messed up family (for good reason) and taking custody of her niece, Grace, while her sister has disappeared. It constantly feels like a kick in the guts with Vanessa and she’s constantly given a shitty card with her hoarder dad, her addict sister and her wtfigo brother.

On the other hand, we have Adrian who is a partner in his law firm and is going through his own issues (the part where he re-meets Richard seems VERY unrealistic to me) and he falls in love with Vanessa and Grace and his life turns upside down.

I think Abby’s writing is witty and candid - the emotions and responses (other than with Richard-wtf) are very real. I loved meeting Becky and I think she needs her own book. I just wish there was more of an ending especially with more of Adrian’s journey.

Do you ever start a book knowing it’s going to make you cry and even though you HATE crying you read it anyway? That’s me with Abby Jiminez books.

Life’s Too Short is about Vanessa, a wildly successful travel vlogger with a disaster for a family, who meets Adrian, a workaholic lawyer, when Vanessa’s infant niece Grace will NOT stop screaming at 4am. Vanessa is the spontaneous carefree ying to Adrian’s studious well-planned yang and they immediately click, despite meeting under the duress of a screaming child. They both insist from the get-go that they are only friends because neither has the time for or interest in a relationship, but, in a shocking turn of events, they fall in love.

This book is simultaneously a fun romcom and a deep look into how devastating illness and family trauma shape (and harm) relationships -- both familial and romantic. Vanessa had to grow up way too quickly thanks to familial ALS, which took her mom, followed by her sister Melanie. While her sister tried every experimental treatment possible, Vanessa has decided that if she starts showing symptoms she isn’t going to spend her final days getting prodded in a hospital but rather traveling and living her remaining days to the fullest.

I am much more of an Adrian than a Vanessa when it comes to personality types but Vanessa’s struggles with her family really hit home for me. Her struggles with her family, ranging from her embarrassment and frustration with her dad’s hoarding to her sister’s continued relapses and troubles with the law, were heartbreaking but deeply realistic. I really appreciated that each of Vanessa’s family members has their own narrative arc and they’re complex characters not solely defined by the audience’s first interaction with them.

I really liked the alternating points of view, particularly during the period of time where both Adrian and Vanessa are vehemently denying their feelings for each other. It’s fun to see the same scene from two different perspectives and it makes Adrian more of a three dimensional character than the leading men of romance novels often are.

Without spoiling anything, I thought the major conflict in the book was very well done. While technically this conflict is one based on miscommunication, it’s a totally plausible and realistic communication that causes Adrian and Vanessa to act in totally authentic -- if deeply frustrating ways. And I won’t say anything about the ending except that I really liked it (and I was seriously concerned I wouldn’t, given the stakes the novel sets up).

Moral of the story -- Abby Jiminez is quickly becoming an auto-buy author for me!

This book is one of my most anticipated reads of 2021 and Life’s Too Short did not disappoint!! I started reading thinking, “I loved the first two books. How is this one ever going to live up to them?” But soon, I found myself carried away by Abby Jimenez’s funny and quick-witted writing that scoops you up and won’t allow you to put the book down until you finish.

Vanessa is a famous YouTuber that is living life against a ticking time bomb. She meets her next door neighbor, Adrian, who’s a handsome, put together, powerful lawyer. Both are done with dating, so they set the boundaries as “just friends.” Vanessa’s got baggage and she just can’t seem to let Aidan in.

This book has twists and turns you just don’t see coming. If you love friends to lovers tropes, this one is for you. Bonus, you get to see the other couples from the first two books, which brought a smile to my face.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!

Excellent, emotional romance with well developed characters and a well crafted, plausible storyline. She is a YouTuber who travels and raises awareness for ALS, a disease that killed her sister. He is an attorney that lives next door to her. She has a dysfunctional family and is fostering her infant niece. One night the baby won't stop crying and he comes over to complain, but ends up helping her. The two become friends. It's a beautiful story of people helping each other heal and become whole.

Steam ; 4/5

Abby Jimenez does it again with this winner! I love Vanessa and Adrian’s friends-to-lovers romance. I applaud how Abby creates and describes realistic heavy topics within her romance novels. In Life’s Too Short, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a character of its own with how it impacts various people in Vanessa’s life. I work with people with ALS, and this was an accurate description of how this horrible degenerative disease changes the life of the person with ALS and the family and loved ones. I don’t want to give many pieces away, but this book has it all: genuine characters you wish could be real; family love and drama; and perspective about how life is precious and focuses on what matters. I would recommend reading this series (in order) for the complete experience because some of the characters make appearances in this book. This book gave me all the feels! Thank you for this fantastic third book in The Friend Zone series Abby!

Thank you to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Meet my first read and my first 5⭐️ book of 2021!! I can almost guarantee this will be on my favourites of the year list, so don’t be surprised if you see it again then! This will be a tough one to beat!

This is the author’s third book, and a spin off from The Friend Zone. The main characters from the previous two books make a couple cameos in this one, it’s just enough to bring all the nostalgia and warm, fuzzy feelings evoked from those books come flying right back.

Abby Jimenez creates amazing characters. They’re funny, relatable, deep, flawed, yet realistic - my favourite types. Her male characters just keep bumping each other for best book boyfriend with each new release. Adrian is EVERYTHING - that first scene he won my heart forever. The ultimate book boyfriend.

This book took me on a rollercoaster of emotions. I laughed, I cried, I SOBBED. Like ugly cried. A book that can make me feel everything so deeply is an instant favourite for me.

There’s a little bit of everything in this book and all of it is fantastic. Well, Abby Jimenez, to paraphrase my favourite, Jim Halpert, ”you’ve “always left me satisfied and smiling” ...that’s what she said. [iykyn]


Pub day is April 6th - get your pre-orders in for this one. Trust me! Thanks to Read Forever pub for the #gifted copy to review!

Thanks to Netgalley and Forever for the copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

This book was so good! I love that the author tackled serious subjects like ALS and the dysfunction that can be in families from dealing with illnesses. The characters all seemed real and I kept wanting to see what would happen next.

Thank you to @readforeverpub for a copy of this book. I love this series and was so excited to read this. Jimenez never disappoints! I enjoyed this book and the friendship and chemistry between Vanessa and Adrian. This book was a lot heavier than I expected. With TFZ and HEAP, they were heavy books but the friendship wIth Sloan and Kristen really lightened the book. I felt this was lacking in LTS and I was looking forward to that.

I was super excited to start this book as I really enjoyed the first two books from Abby Jimenez. And I have good news! Her third book, Life's Too Short, was equally as delightful as the first two.

Vanessa is a social media influencer whose life gets interrupted when her sister drops a baby on her doorstep. Trying to care for the baby, manage her crazy family problems and balance her career, all while dealing with the fears she may share her family's history of an ALS diagnosis, Vanessa is overwhelmed and definitely does not have any time for or interest in dating anyone. One day, her handsome next door neighbor, Adrian, gives her a moment of reprieve by holding the baby so she can take a shower. And all of a sudden her thoughts about not dating begin to change.

Vanessa was a character full of life and personality, uninhibited and ready to soak up life to the fullest! I really enjoyed reading about her, probably because she is so very different from me. Adrian just seemed like a good guy, not perfect but definitely a good guy. I think most readers will swoon when they read about his interactions with baby Grace. Together, Vanessa and Adrian made a great couple, and I enjoyed watching their relationship grow.

Speaking of baby Grace, she seemed to conveniently be present or absent from the story as needed, which made the story not quite feel wholly realistic about life with a newborn. But that's not really something that bothers me in a story like this!

When I read The Happily Ever After Playlist, I didn't realize that it was connected to The Friend Zone. And I was a little frustrated both with myself and the author that it took me almost the whole book to realize that Josh and Kristen (from The Friend Zone) were also in Happily Ever After! How did I not catch that?? With Life's Too Short, I knew from the start that it was connected to the previous two books, and it was also very obvious who the characters were this time around. I think those connections between characters and books is a lot of fun to read, at least when I recognize that it is happening!

The plot of Life's Too Short did remind me at times of the plot for The Friend Zone. Are the stories too similar? Or has Jimenez just found her niche writing honest and humorous stories about women, love, health issues and dealing with life's difficulties? I tend to think it is the latter, and I most definitely will read whatever Abby Jimenez writes next!

Thank you so so much for this early copy of Life's too Short by Abby Jimenez. I have been dying to read this one and I finally did an absolutely LOVED IT!!!!! I love Abby's books and this one was just as good as her other two. I absolutely loved this story and it was so well written! I did not want to put this one down! I loved both characters and it was such a happy, loving story. I am happy with how positive Vanessa was as her character and wanted to live life to its fullest! And I am so happy for Adrian and he was such a sweet, loving guy. I really was worried this one was going to make me cry because I wasn't sure how the outcome was going to be with this one but it turned out just as I wanted it to! I cant wait to get a copy of this one in physical copy to have for my shelves.

Five Star Read for me for sure!

Love Abby Jimenez and Life's Too Short! I have read Ms. Jimenez's other two books (The Friend Zone and the Happy Ever After Playlist) and enjoyed both of those as well. Life's Too Short does not disappoint. This book is a rom-com at its best. I literally laughed out loud while reading this book. Yes, it did deal with some serious topics (drug addiction, hoarding, ALS,), but overall handled these topics well and still managed to make me laugh. The two main characters have great chemistry. The banter and wit are great. This is not a romance novel with 'steam' so if you're looking for that, this is not where you are going to find it. Overall, another great book by Abby Jimenez, and I look forward to reading whatever she writes next!

Where do I start? Abby Jimenez NEVER misses a beat in her books! They lift you up, excite you, make you swoon and then drop you HARD and I mean GUT you, before picking you right back up. Abby chooses characters that are relateable and could be any of us. In Life's too Short, Abby touches on ALS, drug addiction and hoarding to name a few. This book is everything and more. I highly recommend it🥰 I was lucky enough to read it before it's published but have preordered my own copy. A book you must own. GET THIS BOOK and all Abby's books, you wont be sorry!
Thank you Netgalley and GCP for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.