I love how the characters developed throughout the book. I truly enjoyed the book, however i felt like something was missing. Not anything major but something minor little fluff or something. anyways it was a great read. and i thoroughly enjoyed it. thank you for the arc!

The Break-up Pact by Emma Lord ☕️
Overall rating: 4/5 ⭐️
Publishing Date: August 13 2024

I really enjoyed this book and the world the author created. The characters felt believable and relatable and I found the arch of their relationship to be interesting yet still realistic. I felt like the characters' growth throughout the novel was well written and inspiring.

This was a great summer read and I would totally recommend it for any and all vacations!

I appreciated the themes of family, siblings, and loss and these topics really created an in-depth and engaging narrative for June. I enjoyed the mixture of fun, sweet, serious, and funny scenes and overall just enjoyed it!

There are lots of tropes in The Break-Up Pact and I don't mind one bit. Emma Lord is quickly becoming a favorite.

Thank you to NetGalley for the digital ARC.

This book is perfect for summer. I recommend reading by the beach or somewhere else in the sunshine. Read if you love second chance romance, fake dating, and small town beach settings. It was full of the cute/sweet content any reader of Emma Lord's YA books will love but with a depth that bridges the gap to the adult sphere perfectly. This book made me laugh along with the characters, and the grief storyline in it was really well done. I do feel like the ending was a bit rushed with both the exes coming back and I didn't fully understand why June wanted to go through with another interview. Overall, I really enjoyed this one and really loved the writing style!

It's like childhood friends, friends to lovers and fake dating all had a baby! This is a streaming service rom com waiting to happen. It's the perfect amounts of cheesy love story mixed with heart and depth. Beneath the love story are stories of friendship, family, grief and self-discovery...Set in a small beach town. Love-able protagonists that you're rooting for with the best cast of supporting characters.

I would 100% recommend this book. It was my first Emma Lord read and I cannot wait to read more of her work (!!!)

This book felt so nostalgic and feel-good. It held complex feelings full of love. I really enjoyed it! Thank you so much NetGalley for letting me read early!

The Break-Up Pact

June has been turned into an internet meme after a publicly broadcasted break-up has been deemed “Crying Girl” but she is trying to use this to drum up business for her tea shop. Levi’s girlfriend just got caught publicly cheating with a celebrity. Although once childhood best friends they haven’t spoken in ten years. When a random picture has people speculating that they are now revenge exes they decide to go along with the assumption and fake date. This had all the potential to be a new favorite but it was a bit lacking. I think not really seeing their childhood connection and friendship made it hard to buy into their relationship fully. Especially after not talking for a decade. And there were times both characters made some really dumb decisions and I wanted to smack them. That being said I do enjoy this author’s books and banter overall and it was a super quick read. 3 ⭐️

June’s boyfriend publicly breaks up with her on a reality TV. She’s completely humiliated and has become known as crying girl. Levi and his girlfriend Kelly also have a public breakup.

10 years ago June and Levi were the best of friends, they were inseparable but then they had a falling out of epic proportions.. now they agree to fake date. The idea is to take the attention away from their sad break up stories and onto something more positive.

The story is very cute, and the characters are very likable. The majority of the characters have been friend’s since high school. This is both a typical fake dating trope, and a typical romance story. Therefore, it is somewhat predictable but enjoyable.

I would definitely recommend the story to people who love, sweet romances and happy endings. I’d like to thank Net Galley for this complementary copy in exchange for an honest review,

June and Levi once best friends come together after a decade apart to avenge their exes after both reeling from very public, very embarrassing break ups. However, soon, old feelings arise, and their joint grief over the loss of June's sister and Levi's friend brings them together in ways they didn't anticipate. They both realize they've missed their past friendship more than their current broken relationships. This is a story of friendship and what a real lasting love foundation looks like. With a beautiful beach setting, fun recipes and enough cute dates to make anyone swoon. This is a must read beach read for summer 2024. Thank you NetGalley and St. Martins Press for this advanced reader copy.

The story is your typical fake dating trope that everyone has read at least once before and the outcome is what one would expect, but still a pleasant read. The chapters are short and therefore an easy read. It is set in a small beach town about hour out of NYC and the main characters all grew up there together. The characters are all likable for the most part, but the spitfire best friend may have been my favorite character. This book definitely would make a great summer beach read.
Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Publishing for the advanced digital copy.

Emma Lord does it again! I found this story heartwarming, hilarious and was hungry for more right up until the very end. June, Levi and the whole cast of characters are quirky and adorable.

Easy to read and immerse yourself in, I recommend this if you’re interested in something that’ll give you all the feels.

The Breakup Pact has all the warm feels and plenty of chuckles. I literally laughed until I cried at the scream poetry scene. GOUDA! I want to make scones. I want to try kissing with Pop Rocks.

Emma Lord’s writing pulls emotions off the page and into your heart where they will linger long after you’ve read the last page.

The book was endearing, humorous, and adorable. For those who enjoy romantic comedies and swoon over those perfect leading guys, I highly suggest this book. It was fun for me.

Loved this cute romance. The tea shop and seaside setting was adorable. A cute read with no glaring issues.

Levi and June bring the classic fake relationship into today’s society. You can’t help cheering on either one - no matter that it’s fake. I want to visit this town and sit in the tea shoppe while viewing the sea. Great descriptions of all characters and locations. Definitely recommend! Thanks for the read.

June and Levi have been the best of friends, until they weren't. June is struggling to make her and her late sister's tea shop solvent while Levi is struggling to write a novel he no longer believes in. The last time June and Levi had been together was at her sister Annie's funeral.
Both June and Levi experience their own humiliating, very public breakups that make them social media celebrities brings Levi back from New York to the beachside town he grew up in. After being photographed in a semi-romantic position again makes them social media darlings, which they decide to use to their own advantage. June wants to make her tea shop flourish so she can renew her lease and eventually open other stores. Levi wants his fiancée back, so they agree to pretend to be a couple and have a journalist friend photograph them to continue their "love story."
The only problem, somewhere along the way their relationship no longer about revenge but grows into something more than just friendship. But is that truly what they want?

I enjoyed the character building in the Break-Up Pact. June's determination to keep her sister's dream alive, no matter what it took was an interesting glimpse into the deep well that is grief. Beyond just grieving for her sister, June is also grieving the loss of a ten year relationship, and the loss of a lifelong friendship with Levi. When Levi suddenly turns up on the beach with June's brother, she is shocked to see him. All of the feelings she had suppressed came rushing back, both the good and the bad, but before she can do more than say hello, her brother runs off leaving June and Levi alone. June suggests a race and together they start to run, only Levi grabs her just when she thinks she going to win and they tumble into the grass. Unbeknownst to them a picture is snapped and later posted showing them in a rather romantic pose and a new social media sensation hits dubbing them the revenge-exs. They agree to fake date so Levi can get his fiancée back and June bolsters sales for her tea shop. After five dates, they begin to realize there is more to unpack in their relationship and in many ways, they both need to grow and change.

I always love small town second-chance romances. They are one of my very favorite tropes, especially when there is a cast of great side characters who do their best to help the main characters to find their way. June and Levi were interesting characters and I enjoyed watching them navigate the tricky waters of grief to find their way to a new shore in both their lives and their love.
Excellent read if you love second chance romances or enemies to lovers.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Another cutesy, easy read! This is probably more of a 3.5 rating but we’ll make do with three of them.

I mean, I just can’t resist the combination of second chance and childhood best friends coming together. I loved the dynamic between June and Levi. They were so good as friends first, and really understood each other, making sure to know how the other is feeling above anything else. I really liked how some of the tropes like the miscommunication addition was dealt with maturely and didn’t drag out. It just makes it so much more believable that the characters we’re dealing with are, you know, adults.

The reason this isn’t an easy 4 or 4.5 was because even though there was full potential for that, I felt like the first few chapters of the book I had to really push through before I felt attached to either the characters or the plot itself. I didn’t go in with too many expectations but once June and Levi’s interactions grew more meaningful and I was invested, this was just a breeze to get through. I also loved the way their ex relationships were wrapped up and actually discussed in context of their personal growth, and also growth with each other.

I read The Break-Up Pact so fast, almost in a single sitting — it was so fun and wholesome the entire way through. I enjoyed the protagonists and their relationship, the side characters contributed decently, and it was just a very easy and light read, which is exactly what I was looking for with this!!

The Break-Up Pact was a fun and quick beachy read. June and Levi were childhood friends who became estranged and recently reconnected, enter: fake dating trope. And while their relationship is silly and fun the book also gets deep in discussing grief and loss and will have you feeling the feels.

Overall very cute and the ending was perfect!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc in exchange for an honest review!

Another cute Emma Lord book! This is Lord's adult romance debut, and it features:

- estranged childhood friends to lovers
- fake dating
- small beach town setting
- family and friends
- modern social media shenanigans
- baked goods (specifically scones!)


There's also a touch of the miscommunication trope, which I'm not the biggest fan of, but it didn't drag on terribly long, and I think wrapped up pretty neatly in the end.

Thanks so much to the publisher for providing me with a digital review copy of The Break-Up Pact via NetGalley!

I wouldn't say this book was dissatisfying, but it left something to be desired. As much as I love a little dose of revenge, the blatant exploitation of social media seemed odd at times just in the sense that it wasn't really how things like that would truly work, and I wished the protagonists would be more liberal with the block button. I hate miscommunication, which this did have, but at least they spoke more later on. I wouldn't actively recommend this, but I wouldn't dissuade people from reading it.