

And I’m not saying it didn’t provide that, because it did, but it became so much more.

What I expected from this story was a cute, summer romance. “See, the thing about the falling in love montage,” she said, her voice hoarse,

It’s the bit after the meet-cute and before the devastation, and it is exactly what the main characters of this book had planned for the summer. This book was about that part of the rom-com film where the couple goes on dates and have a cute montage of them, well, falling in love. It was fun, but also so much more emotional than I expected.Īs someone who is moving slowly and cautiously away from YA fiction, especially contemporary YA fiction, I definitely need something with a twist to keep me interested and on my toes, which is exactly what The Falling in Love Montage did. It was witty, clever and laugh-out-loud funny, but with deeper, dark moments too. This book had a similar trope to fake-dating but with a twist, and I loved it. I’ve been wanting to read this book for a while, and it really didn’t let me down. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real. Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up-and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out.īut after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules.

A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings.
