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Overall: ✰✰✰✰✰ Plot: ✰✰✰✰.5 Characters: ✰✰✰✰✰
*THIS BOOK IS NEW ADULT! 16+
Zoë is a 27 year old vegan chef, single and ready to mingle, who trusts way too much on the stargazer horoscope app she has on her phone. Which is why, after being single for too long, she decides the best plan is to date her way through the zodiac signs, starting with the least compatible for her as an Aquarius -like scorpio-, while constantly laughing at her own bad luck, and getting doubts that end up being super relatable.
I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was hilarious, heartfelt, relatable and simply fun. I was so invested in Zoë’s love life but I was also rooting for one particular boy. This book felt like a warm hug, constantly keeping me entertained and making me fall in love with the main characters. The only actual bad thing I can say is that I wish it would’ve been longer. The ending was perfect and this book is the perfect read when you want to swoon and laugh for a while.

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I enjoyed this but I don't think it was for me.

It's a quick, easy and fun read! I really liked the friendships probably even more than the romance.
I loved who Zoë ended up with but wished it'd happened earlier so we got to see more of their relationship and less of the previous relationship.

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A delightfully witty quick read!! Readers will fall in love with the main character as she stumbles her way through the difficult, but humorous, world of dating. As always, Sophie Ranald does not disappoint - and readers of her past novels will enjoy seeing some familiar names! A must read for Sophie Kinsella lovers - or anyone who just wants a good laugh.

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So not much to say here. This one did not grab me at all. I read the previous book in the series, [book:Just Saying|54645755] so was familiar with the character of Zoe. I was wondering how Ranald was going to rehab this character to make us root for her. Honestly she doesn't do enough of it to make you want to root for Zoe who keeps going on about her ex Joe and how nothing since him has compared. The book does a good job of showing us some chick lit bits with Zoe going on disastrous Tinder dates as well as realizing what she wants and does not want in a relationship. The book just got stale after a while and I didn't buy her love interest in this one either. It's someone familiar to readers at this point who I think we all had strong reactions to when we started with this series. Curious who Ranald will follow up with next though.

Zoe in "Thank You, Next" is determined to finally get over her ex Joe who she tried to steal from his current girlfriend in the last book. Zoe has decided to start dating via the Tinder dating app and she's only going to pick guys who her star app tells her are good picks for her. So in this totally illogical way you have Zoe dating through the Zodiac. I wish I was kidding. No Zoe is not early 20s, she's 27, so you can't even excuse that. We get to follow Zoe's up and downs through dating while she also silently judges her gym buddy Dani about the guy she's dating. No Zoe never speaks up (until way too late IMHO) but we definitely get to read her opinions about the guy.

I think it would have taken a lot for most readers to want to root for Zoe. I think the only author that has come close to this was Emily Giffin in "Something Blue". It pains me to say that since I don't read that author anymore. But she did a great job with turning the antagonist in the first book into someone you rooted for in the follow-up to "Something Borrowed." I think if we had seen more self awareness from Zoe that not jerky people don't try to steal someone's boyfriend and maybe work on herself a bit more instead of doing the whole I need a man to be happy. Seriously that was pretty much this whole book. I love romance books, but I wanted to see more of Zoe and what she was about besides dating and feeling disappointed that guys she liked are not into her the same way. I don't know, I guess I was hoping for a girl empowerment moment or something.

The other characters in this one are not developed very well. We have glimpses of Alice and Joe in this one, but it's so odd that since Zoe works for Alice (she's the chef at the pub) it feels odd that Alice is not in this more.

We get to see Zoe date and some of the dates are hilariously bad, and the whole dick pic thing that kept happening to her made me sigh (been there, got the t-shirt) and I think if Ranald had focused on that aspect the plot would have held together more.

The flow was up and down for me. I think because once we get past the constant dates the book hits a stale point with Zoe and I won't go into it, but it was boring to read about. I think we are supposed to see Zoe as now realizing she needs to be more assertive and all that, but geez, it was a long time coming.

The ending was cute. I didn't really care about her or the hero she got with, but it was cute.

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Seriously, why do guys on dating apps think I want a picture of what’s in their pants? I could open an art gallery with the collection I’ve got.

What a cute adorable quick book this was! I simply devoured this book in one sitting!
The characters are on point! The story is beyond amazing! And the ending..... Loved it!

Hurry and grab this one!

Thank you NetGalley Publisher and author for this copy!

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This book fell a little flat for me. I figured out where it was going, but I felt like we didn’t know enough about the hero. I didn’t like the rushed ending as well. Thank you to netgalley for the arc.

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Zoe is looking for love and is a serial dater, she resorts to Tinder and dating guys according to their star signs.
Can Zoe find her match?

We met Zoe in Sophie's last book just saying, and I'm glad to see she still has the adorable Frazzle.

This book along with all Sophie's others are full of humour and so many laugh out loud moments, and are always so relatable.

Devoured in just a few hours this is the perfect read and a great escapism.

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Super cute chick lit book about love, friendship and life in general. It was a great read that went by fast. Definitely a weekend with a good cup of coffee read.

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This is my first book from Sophie Ranald.

We have Zoe who accepts a challenge on Tinder to date a man of every star sign until she finds the one for her.

I thought zoe was funny and she definately grew into her character as the book went on. The dates she recounts are hilarious and some are downright weird but it keeps you entertained all the way through.

This had me laughing all the way from the beginning to the end.

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