An (Un) Romantic Comedy

The perfect comfort read!

Bookish Tina am 12.03.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1899202
Bewertet: eBook (ePUB 3)

I was fully preparing for this to be a "meh" review, but - well, it's not. At the beginning, "An (Un)Romantic Comedy" was giving me "basic, but not my type of basic" vibes. I felt like the family of Poppy would be insufferable and that I wouldn't have any fun reading it. Then, I forgot at which point, it became really really good! Sure, it's predictable and a little cheesy, but hear me out, it's the good kind of cheesy. Reading this book helped me escape from my real-life problems, without being boring, and it was comfort, the all in caps kind of comfort. We have the characters who are a menace at the beginning, but then some issue gets resolved and they're not bad people after all. We have those characters who are just cool. And then of course we have those who really just *are* a menace so all the other characters can dislike them together. ;) Poppy is a sex therapist and this is a big theme in this book. I think the author had something to say about prejudices against sex therapists and about bedroom issues in general and I LOVE that she speaks out against these in her book. I wish the things she writes about were common knowledge. (cough, looking at all the men* who have no clue, cough) At times the dialogues about sex therapy themes felt very "written for the reader" - I could never have those long and deep dialogues the characters have without some reactions in between - but then it was perfect like that, I didn't really need those reactions. So, all in all, this was a 4.5 star read for me! I enjoyed this book very much and can highly recommend it to you if you're looking for a cute comfort read! Thank you @netgalley and @bookandtonic for the ARC. My opinion has not been influenced in any way, as always! :)