Book Review: Absolutely Not in Love by Jenny Proctor

 


Absolutely Not In Love by Jenny Proctor - 3.5 Stars 

Book 2 in the Appies series and 7 in the Sweater Weather series

This is another book in the Appies/Sweater Weather series and we follow Gracie and Felix's romance. 

Read if you like:

🏒Hockey Romance Books
🏒Forced Proximity Trope
🏒Guys who Read and Love Classical Music
🏒Classical Music
🏒Cute Text Threads
🏒Neighbors to Lovers
🏒Anxiety Rep

I overall enjoyed this book but sitting with it honestly it isn't a favorite rom-com for me. I LOVED Felix's character and how he loved to read and cared for Gracie so much. I did relate to the parental things Gracie kinda went through as well so part of that was relatable. Loved seeing Gracie's Cello playing too. I love Classical music so that was an added bonus for me.

Essentially, Gracie hates hockey players and swears she will never date one after something that happened many years ago with one. Cut to meeting Felix next door and sparks fly between them. She doesn't want to let go of her "no dating hockey players" rule buttttt the more they hang out the more they start to care for one another. The rest is history. 

The romance itself was clean but it does tread the line for me a bit. It wasn't explicit, don't get me wrong, but the make outs were a bit more detailed than I personally wanted to read about and the constant looking at his abs and him in his underwear thing was a bit annoying - I wanted more depth of the relationship versus those things. Also a bit more innuendos than I prefer in a rom-com. I also would have liked a bit more of the side characters involved I think. 

Overall, I still enjoyed the book, as the audio narrators were very engaging and dual narrators. I think this was a perfect read for me during the week of thanksgiving right before I started all my Christmas reads too haha. Ending was sweet.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6597975855
Amazon: https://amzn.to/41cYyjU

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