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Birthday Girl

Penelope Douglas

Start date: April 1, 2023

Finish date: April 5, 2023

Discussion: Buddy Reads

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Oct 08, 2021 Leila rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-romance, annoying-heroine, heavy-eyerolling, buddy-read, new-adult, age-gap, forbidden-love, kindle-unlimited, 2021-reads, forced-proximity

2.5 wishful stars

I'll just be over here in my corner of shame that Whitney sent me to for not loving this book. I'm sure there's more of you that think I belong here too. Lol!

What have I learned from this reading experience? That age-gaps (larger than 10 years) are really not my thing. That I really hate when the younger of the MCs, in an age-gap, is less than... oh, let's say, 23 years old; I hate it even more when they are barely legal. I despise cliche, one-dimensional characters. I can't st ...more

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Jun 22, 2021 Jaylah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, 2021-favorites, favorites, e-books, book-tok-finds, worth-the-hype

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This is another Book Tok made me do it!

When I tell y’all I could not put the book down. Thankfully because it’s summer for me, I was able to stay up all night and read so I finished it really quickly.

I have to be honest, I wasn’t quite sure how I would feel because man this is messy! Having feelings for your boyfriend’s dad?? YIKES!

However the author handled it so well. For one, I love that it was after Cole was no longer her boyfriend that they got together and not while they were seeing each ...more

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Jun 10, 2019 Michelle McElroy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019-reading-challenge

This was my first time reading a book by this author. I really enjoyed this book, could not put it down.

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Jan 08, 2019 Brianne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: age-gap

Loved the book and the Audible was just as good! Dual narration was awesome and the narrator for Pike was just right! Loved this story, we need more like it!

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