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The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory

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ashleec100's review

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funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

steffski's review against another edition

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2.0

This book was...fine. Not everything everyone said it was. It was fun and light and everything you expect a romance novel to be.

I am ALL about diversity...but I kind of started rolling my eyes at one point like "we get it, she's black." I think it's amazing to see people of color be represented better, but I also want to be able to treat them as normal people and not be reminded every other page that the author is aware and with it in the area of race and diversity. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Maybe I'm out of line but I just didn't think it was done well in this book.

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4.0

3.5 Stars. This was such a lovely romance, the chemistry between Nik and Carlos was so sweet. A really nice use of the ‘friends-to-lovers’ tripe. I thought the two perspectives were used really well to give the reader additional details, and I liked seeing how each was falling for the other without the characters realising it. However, I think that these perspectives were not all that different from the other, and I did at times miss who was narrating. What did annoy me was that Carlos seemed like such a nice person, albeit overprotective, but nearer the ending of the book his reaction seemed so out of character it was jarring. I liked Niks best friends and how present for each other the three of them were. I also thought that Guillory did well at presenting the topic of feeling unsafe, however, I thought the implications of this for Nik could have been more fully developed. Overall, this was a sweet read, and I would be interested in reading more by Guillory.