DNF
I read about 30% before deciding to give up. I didn't care about the plot or the characters and the dialogue was immature and annoying.

This book was absolutely nothing that I was expecting. I loved so much about the concept, especially considering I thought it was just an easy read romantic comedy. The very really drama of how family secrets can take away so much from a person was really interesting and original. However, the writing was just terrible. It was repetitive in ways that make me wonder if somebody gave this book an edit before they decided to publish it. I’d definitely read something else from this author and applaud her story creation, but it was just cringy at times

After much consideration of what I should do, I DNF-ed this book at 24%.

Where the concept is great, the writing was not my style and I found myself cringing more often than enjoying the book.
The inner monologue is excessive. There is a lot of sharing done by characters that is irrelevant to the story and definitely could have done without.

I like the Downs Syndrome representation, and the fact that the Addie is portrayed as "Plus size" (But, I hate to break it to you, Size 12, is not plus size - I'd give my left arm to be a size 12). There is too much self hate because of her size, and I did not like that (and from reading other reviews, it also branches out to other people, like a guy who admits he's a "chubby chaser"? Again, size 12 is not chubby)

Anyways, I found the story lacking depth, and character. Unfortunately, I was not able to connect with any of the people in the book and the writing was a little juvenile for me.

I really enjoyed this story but there were a few things that bugged me enough that I couldn’t give it 4 stars. We finally have a strong, single/never married female character over 40 and the author made her a drunk slob. I am sick to death of these tropes that women only wear slogan t-shirts and yoga pants because they can’t dress themselves and they get drunk on wine every night! Also, what is with every female character needing a gay fashion savior? Addie didn’t know George for two seconds before suddenly they are best friends?! The switching of POVs was more of a hindrance than a help. Also... why doesn’t the cover match the main characters description?!

I was provided with an ARC of this book by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishing house for sharing this ARC with me.

I DNF this book because I just couldn't do it. The one star is generous.

There is so much telling and no showing that I felt like I was reading someone's diary entry. The author barely describes anything. She's just telling, telling, telling and it's too much. I'm not a fan of the author's writing style, I personally felt it was too juvenile. You're not sympathetic with any of the characters and the pacing was weird. The POV jumps felt all over the place and honestly, everyone sounded more or less like whiney kids; incredibly similar and all unlikeable.

The premise of the book had promise and there are a lot of good ideas but the delivery wasn't there. I appreciated the representation with her brother having Down Syndrome and the main character is curvy but there was nothing else going for the book.

I decided to DNF this book at 35% because it just isn't for me. I found the main character very annoying and I really didn't care about anything that was going on. The stream of consciousness writing just pulled me out of the story every time it went on a tangent. I'm rating it 2 stars because I don't think 1 star is far since I didn't read all of it.

I did like to see the representation of a curvy woman and the main character's little brother having Down Syndrome.

I received this book as an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. Ok so i read the summary of the book and i fell in love because i have a sister who has Down syndrome and i was kinda in a situation with taking care of her when my parents weren’t. My mom was in the wind with her husband and my dad, well he just stayed away. So when going into this book i knew it wasn’t going to be the same exact story but i expected to connect with the characters on some level like i said had being in the situation very similar. I don’t feel Iike it pulled me in and made me want to read it. Looking and other people reviews, i don’t feel as bad not finishing it seeing as though I’m not the only one. But since i did get about 85 percent through I’m doing this review.

Addie is an admirable main character who loves and wants to take care of her brother Owen, who has Down's Syndrome. The book does a good job with their relationship. I really wanted to like this book, but it was hard to get through because it's supposed to be a romance, but it wasn't ever really romantic. The basic trope was there--Navy Seal, ornery male type. But the heart wasn't really there for me, and then the plot go out of control with her father. I think overall, the book tried to do too much, and it would have been better just concentrating on Addie being a good sister.

I was drawn in by the super cute cover and plot, but unfortunately the writing needs A LOT of work! This character is supposed to be 40, but the writing was so painfully juvenile that it was very distracting. I couldn't get into the storyline or care about the characters at all. The story could be a very good one, but as it is now, it's is unreadable.

Thank you NetGalley, BooksGoSocial and Allison Jones for gifting me an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!

Hi Everyone
This was a good book although boring.

Addie the principal character make me laugh sometimes, and Jameson make me want someone like him exist but the storie get so boring sometimes and the conversation between the characters didn´t make click for me.

If you like pink stories with some laugh between this is the storie for you.

This was my first book from this author and I was very pleasantly surprised. I loved the idea behind the book so my attention was grabbed immediately. Job very well done by the author.

This was DNFed at about 15%.

I don't have much to say about this due to only reading up to 15% of the book. I have no interest in continuing or seeing where the story would go to the random comments/stream of consciousness of the characters, constant and rather large time jumps, annoying characters, the extra character POV chapters that felt unnecessary, and the writing itself. This could have been edited a few more times to really give this book more oomph. I think it needed to have more focus on what the author was going for. Maybe have a few parts of it fleshed out more while others were cut out. I couldn't connect with any of the characters or find a reason to really care. I was forced to jump between character perspectives and time that I felt I didn't have time to for anything to really sink or give me a reason to care.

Her Turn was a lovely, romance novel with enough twists and turns to keep the reader engaged throughout. There are a few layers to this book, and I enjoyed the different character view points. I liked the entire aspect of Addie getting the book deal, and coming to terms with her new found fame, as someone who naturally likes to avoid attention. I also enjoyed the slow build nature of Addie and Jameson's romance, in particular his own internal dialogue. I did however find the story of her family a little far fetched, but it was still enjoyable to read, and I loved her relationship with her brother who was probably the star of the book.
Overall this was a fun, easy book to read and I would certainly pick up more from the author in future.

dnf-ed around the 30% mark

<b>Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review</b>

The writing is just not for me. This is a story set up to be an adult rom com but the writing is so juvenile, the prose is just painful to read. Being inside these characters' heads is not fun when they all act incredibly similar (really unlikable), some perspectives in the book made no sense too cause it adds nothing to the plot or helps build the main characters, like Why do I need to know what her cousin-in-law is thinking if the main character already gave us a summary of what kind of person she is.

It's a lot of tell and no show which makes it really hard to feel connected or sympathize with any of these characters. The main character would just tell us "this is my cousin-in-law. She married my cousin who is an ass, oh and she is also a kleptomaniac." The constant use of short sentences really undercuts any of the effect, it just reads as really choppy. The prose is also really awkward and just unrealistic, like no human being talks or acts this way, it is written so cartoonish-ly bad to show the readers 'this is a bad person!' that it made me laugh. It feels like a series of made up scenarios in the shower compiled into a book with a weak plot.

Overall, the writing is just not for me which is disappointing cause the description sounded really interesting.

Personally, I was unable to finish this book. I think it had a lot of potential, but the voice of the main character bothered me from the start. She tells the reader everything – there's little to no showing of her own personality. Instead, she just narrates her own reactions instead of actually reacting. She can never seem to react when something happens, constantly narrating what has happened for the reader until the person in the room or on the phone has to ask if she's there or okay. Additionally, the narrator breaks the fourth wall and references the reader directly, which doesn't vibe well with this particular genre, in my opinion.

I was so excited to read a book with unusual characters - a main character, Addie, over 40 with a brother with Down’s Syndrome, multiple points of view. I had such high hopes. However, I was unable to connect with Addie (and her lady bits). She just never seemed real to me. Neither was the hero Jameson sympathetic for me. I just couldn’t get invested so ended up not finishing the book.

Did not finish. The one possibly redeeming feature was Owen but I put this one down at 50% and didn't look back. I didn't like the changing POVs. I didn't like the way Addie constantly referred to her "lady parts." Huge eye roll. I also noticed the Addie on the cover ha she long brown hair but the Addie described in the book has short blonde hair. ?? There are way too many great books to read to struggle through one I don't enjoy.

A DNF gets an automatic 1 star. I got 60 pages in. The internalised misogyny and outright fatphobia was tough to take. Coupled with all characters being deeply unlikeable meant I'm not going to go any further. The final nail in the coffin is the weird pacing and the breaking of the rule show don't tell.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I couldn’t put it down once I started reading it. I love the relationship between Addie and Owen. I wish there was a little more background to the relationship with Addie and Nina. The storyline was a little predictable in that Dorothy was the Villain even though the extent wasn’t clear till the end. I enjoyed the ending, I think this book would be a great start to more books about other characters. For example this book was about Addie and Jameson, a sequel could be written about Nina and Harrison.

This book sounded intriguing and interesting. Addie is forty, single and has written the next best seller. She also is a caregiver to her younger brother Owen, who has Down Syndrome. This book was sold as a quirky romance, what I got was a little bit of romance, with a lot of family drama.

This book just didn't do it for me. It is a multiple perspective book, but I think it would have done better with a dual perspective of Addie and Jameson (the publicist). I also didn't really feel the chemistry between Addie and Jameson, and hearing about "lady bits" a number of times, was just to much. The book felt like it was struggling with knowing how it was being narrated, with the characters breaking the fourth wall at times, but then being oblivious to the audience at other times. I appreciate what Jones was trying to do with the diversity in the book (characters that maybe aren't typical in romance), but to me it just fell flat. I also thought the time jumps in the book did not do the story service. I am still unclear of how much time passed from the beginning to the end of the novel, and there were jumps when not necessary.

I received a copy of this from NetGalley and the publisher for an open and honest review. All opinions are 100% mine.