I asked to read this because it was supposed to be funny. It's not funny. Two people with no real self-awareness decide to write letters to each other to see if they really like each other... With all the endless details about their sex lives, did we really learn anything important about them? And they were unlikeable and uninteresting.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me listen to this audiobook. Both the narrators did a good job with the material.

This one started out good but I lost interest after the first few chapters - I don't feel that it was badly written, I just didn't really connect with the characters.

Thank you to the publishers, author and NetGalley for the free copy of this audio book.

I'm split on my thoughts on this one! It was an enjoyable read over all but it was a bit slow. The letters were interesting but I'm not sure I loved it. The narrators were great though!

This just didn’t do it for me, which is really unfortunate. I wanted to love it so bad (the premise is great), but it just didn’t work for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks, for an audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

Jane and John meet and start to hookup at a wedding where they are bored and looking for some excitement, but at the last moment decide to wait. They decided to start writing explicit letters to each other about their previous sex lives in an attempt to connect. It is told from the POV of both main characters but I think I hated this book about 5% in. They characters are vapid and dull with overt sex as their only connection. I finished it for the sake of the review but do not recommend it. I think I will pass on the movie as well. I had the audio version read by Kerby Heyborne and Renee Raudman who I also did not particularly care for. Don't waste your time.

I did not finish this audiobook. I found that the books pacing was very slow. I did not find the characters likable. I thought that their letters back and forth, while giving each other a glimpse into their past relationships, didn’t provide enough excitement and they tended to just blur into one another. Nothing was exciting enough to keep me interested, and I found myself tuning out a lot.

Thanks for the opportunity! This book just wasn’t for me unfortunately.

An interesting premise but predictable and it dragged on a bit. I lost interest about halfway through but forced myself to finish it. Initially I was intrigued by the letter writing concept but it fell flat. I didn’t like the characters and the romance felt forced…cringey, almost. Overall, not for me.

2.8 stars rounded up to 3.

Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for the ARC.

I absolutely love this. I finished this in two sitting as the characters were mesmerizing. They kept me hooked till the very end of it and the writing is so beautiful, I a absolutely love it.

I really enjoyed this unique take on a romance story. To me, the audiobook is better than the movie, (isn’t it always?) because I much prefer the lure of the penned romanticism over throwing it together in a road trip; much more heart that way. The narrators, I felt were good at making you forget they were not those characters, if that makes sense. They submerged you into their story with a fever and you just had to believe everything they said was true. Definitely recommend!

I wanted to read this book (or I guess listen to it) because I'd heard about the movie and was interested in watching it. (It helped that Nat Wolff and Lucy Hale were the leads too). I don't have much to say about this book because while I can't say I hated it, I didn't particularly like it either. A lot of the confessions felt like they were meant to be funny but all the jokes just fell flat for me. I also didn't particularly care for either character and found it odd that they were called John and Jane. Were they named that because we were meant to put ourselves in "John Doe" and "Jane Doe's" shoes? If we were... it didn't work for me. The story felt like just a long stream of consciousness from two different people and I didn't like it. There were so many tangents in each of their letter confessions that I sometimes forgot what they were initially trying to talk about. It also astounded me that anyone could write a letter so long. I know it was all in the name of story but it made it hard to pause the story and then jump back into it later when I was in the middle of John or Jane's thoughts.
Overall it was an okay read but not something I'd ever buy for myself.

I really enjoyed the first 90% of this book. I didn't have a good understanding of the premise besides the movie preview so it was definitely not what I was expecting, in a good way. I liked the witty dialogue and using the letters as the vessel. My issue came with when they meet and actually interact, it felt like something about them fell apart and became cringey.

I was very excited to listen to this book after seeing the movie previews. However, the story fell a bit short of my expectations. The narrators kept me entertained the entire story and the unique way that each character's stories were told through letters was intriguing. But I did find myself asking what just happened during any given letter. It seemed like the story was built on the shock factor and trying to have one character one up the other the whole time. I did not feel a major connection between these two characters and their time together felt strained and traumabonded.
I did find their stories individually to be entertaining, but when the two main characters were together I did not have the same interest.

i absolutely loved jane and will! their conversations and banter and undercover flirting had me hooked from the very beginning!

𝚁𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐: 3.5⭐️
𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎: romance📚

𝙼𝚢 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚜:
A fun and enjoyable romance that fell a little short for me.

𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚒𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎:
Romantic comedies
Character driven plots
Friends to lovers
Realistic romance

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎𝚍:
The letters were fun

𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙸 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛:
Its a little predictable
The romance felt a little forced
I feel like not much really happened

I enjoyed the narration, It really helped the story flow and made listening to the letters more fun

Not your typical rom com…but nonetheless I LOVED IT and now I can’t wait to see the movie! This book shows how two very flawed people can come together and share their pasts without fear…and add in a lot of laughs. I highly recommend this book!!

This book just wasn't my favorite. I can't pin point exactly what. The narrators were great. I do look forward to the movie though.

This story begins with two people meeting at a wedding. Both feel that “spark”, but John doesn’t want to rush. He suggests they write letters to each other making confessions as a way to get to know each other. This turns into them writing letters back and forth detailing their past loves. While the idea of getting to know someone via how they loved others in the past is an interesting concept, I don’t think I bought into it. It felt weird that this was all that they knew about each other and this was glaringly obviously in the end.

I did enjoy the narrators. They did a great job bringing the characters to life especially since I didn’t really like either John or Jane as people.

John and Jane meet at a wedding. They’re bored so figured what they’d spice things up in the coat room. Cooler heads prevail and they decide to do things differently and be actual friends. As they are geographically incompatible, they decide to share of themselves via letters in alternating chapters. The concept sounded interesting, for me the reality was not. I was bored and didn’t really like either John or Jane so found it hard to care about their respective story lies. I kept wondering how they got to the ages they were being so incredibly immature. This is not a really a romance and I found it tough to finish. Just not for me personally.

This was a bit of a dull read. The majority of the book are letters between John and Jane about their own previous relationships. Lots and lots of stories I couldn’t care less for.

Thanks NetGalley for an audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

I don't ever rate anything a 3 star, but man this story....it just didn't do anything for me. I thought since Netflix was making it into a show or movie that it would be a great story. I listened all the way through, but nope...it wasn't for me.

I am a romance reader and maybe that is the problem. This wasn't really a romance until the end. I had a really hard time liking Jane from the get go. Learning her romantic past didn't really help and I think if I was John I would have stayed away. Not that he didn't come with his own baggage.

This was an interesting premise, but it dragged for me and I didn't love the characters all that much.

The narrators did a good job. I wasn't a huge fan of their voices since I felt like Jane sounded too old and John too young, but they told the story well.