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Wow. What a great listen. I had a hard time putting this one down. Luckily I got the audiobook version so I could listen while doing things. Don’t skip this one.

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Great beach read! Helena has anxiety of heading to her mom’s wedding and not meeting up to her new step family,The Perfects. Dragging her best friend along to sheild her from a week of wedding chaos. It turns out it’s truly a small world. Her friend Landon had a past relationship with her soon to be stepsister she refers to as uptight Polly Perfect. A comedy of errors ensues. Full of laughs, misconceptions, jealousies and love. It takes quirky laid back Helena to upset the applecart and make Amelia realize that life doesn’t have to be perfect and shouldn’t be lived out by duty. The narration was complimentary to this book.Thank you to NetGalley for this free advanced copy. I’m leaving this review voluntarily.

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This book was ....odd. It is about a woman whose mother is marrying into a family. She brings her male best friend along (they have zero attraction to each other). She resents the family she is living into but has a crush on her new step sister's fiancé. Little did she know, her best friend is her step sister's ex. In the span of the book, I felt like there was so much going on that stories were not as well developed as they could be and characters were very one dimensional. It doesn't seem like they exist outside of the story. I wa snot invested in any of the relationships. This was a play on Midsummer's Night Dream but it didn't really translate well into a tale between a family. What person would state that they want to set up their step sister with their ex? I think it would be more realistic if acquaintances or mayyyybe distant cousins. Sorry...the cover was cute and it sounded fun, but it fell flat for me.

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