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Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)

Lynn Painter

Start date: January 22, 2022

Finish date: February 5, 2022

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Dec 11, 2024 Monet Daffodil added it

5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Better Than the Movies
Author: Lynn Painter
YA Romance

You guys, this book had me in a chokehold and I don’t even like YA! I loved it so much! 🥲. This was the cutest, sweetest book ever. Long story short, our FMC dreams of having a romance like she sees in her favorite movies. Her forever crush has just moved back home after being away, and she is determined to share her picture perfect moment with him. However, she ends up developing feelings for her neighbor who has been helping her ...more

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Mar 08, 2022 barbie rated it it was amazing

FINALMENTE um livro que consegui terminar!!! te amooo better than the movies te amo!
Pra mim o que faz um romance ser bom é ele entregar o que a autora promete, sem exageros e sem forçação. A lynn painter quis trazer um romance teen com uma personagem muito bem construída dentro daquela realidade, ela vive no mundinho dela, é apaixonada por filmes de comédia romântica (eu AMEI isso) e sonha em viver um grande amor. E tem o Wes, que é o vizinho implicante dela que na verdade sempre se mostra um bo ...more

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Feb 09, 2023 lookleahreads rated it it was amazing

This was SUCH a cute book. YA novel that I throughly enjoyed — probably too much, to be honest. The 17 year old in me was absolutely 👏🏼 swooning 👏🏼 over Wes. It’s the kind of book you want to be made into a movie so you can watch these beautiful characters on screen and just smile ear to ear. (Even though we all know books are better!)

This young-love, enemies-to-lovers trope rom-com will give you allllllllll the feels. Books don’t get much better than this.

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