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

Lynn Painter

Start date: June 1, 2023

Finish date: July 1, 2023

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Jan 13, 2022 Yusra ❥ rated it really liked it

Shelves: hopeless-romantic

Not me staying up until 1 am to finish this💀, yall I was squealing and laughing while reading this book. That's so embarrassing, but it was so much fun lol.

Also just a random thing I want to say about it, the girls name is Elizabeth something, and the guys name is Wes Bennett. SO if they got married and and she changed her last name she would be ELIZABETH BENNETT. Idk why the author didn't mention that when she talked about pride and prejudice at some point lol, missed opportunity. ...more

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Jun 11, 2022 loren grace rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

5⭐️

childhood enemies to lovers is officially my new favorite trope

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Oct 06, 2022 Ceylin rated it liked it

Shelves: 2022

3.5 ⭐️

I guess it didn’t live up to the hype for me. I liked it, but for me it was a bit slow and it took me some time to get into the story.

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May 06, 2023 Lucia rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2023, reread

4.5/5 stars

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Aug 06, 2022 Narda (sad alien 🖖🏻👽) rated it really liked it

4.5 ⭐️

“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”

Todo estuvo muy cute y el final fue muy bonito. 🥹
Quiero un Wes en mi vida, lptm :c
Pero, no sé, siento que ya estoy en el límite de seguir leyendo romances juveniles cuando ya me siento ruca, en fin.
Hubo parte que Liz me estresaba poquito 🙃🫠 pero, entendí su necesidad de querer tener algo como en la romcoms, chica, yo también quisiese algo así y me pone sad leer cosas tan cutes como este libro que sé que nunca tendré, ah.

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Oct 13, 2023 Josie rated it liked it

Shelves: october23

wes carried this whole this whole book and i don’t think there’s a more insufferable character than liz. i get that there’s a growth arc but it was hard when i just wasn’t rooting for her! justice for Alex!

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Aug 13, 2024 simran rated it it was ok

Yeah. 1.5. 2? 2.5? ⭐️

I was actually very close to giving a 3 then very close to giving a 2 but then the last 100 or so pages happened and I gave up

First thoughts:

Oh my god. I think I had some sort of a psychological malfunction in the middle of the book because I actually started to like it somewhere there. Then i finished it and I was back in my senses.

Why did I finish this in one day? Well, for one, 2024 has been so sucky that I actually forgot to even make a reading challenge and remembered i ...more

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Aug 24, 2022 Arleyne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

4.5*??

idk for sure because I started this in a slump and I always like those books less...

I did really like this though! I wanted a bit more of Lizwes, but the moments we did get were really cute.
I also think the subplots were well developed and really contributed to the story and character development of Liz.

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