I enjoyed this story. It is a friend to lovers rom-com. This book follows Mitch and Rosie, best friends as they make a pact that is the can't find their "one" they will create a family themselves.

I enjoyed the story. I did feel that the book was too long and wordy for the content.

Many thanks to Net Galley and HarperCollins UK for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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✨Friends to Lovers
✨ London

✨ I got to be honest. I have to give up after chapter 12. DNF.
It was a great start, you know, Rosie is looking somewhere to stay especially in a budget wise living in London . But this guy , Mitch was a moron .
✨ they developed a friendship easily which is great but she always pushes herself to this guy who actually dates lots of woman .
Also there is a part to that she would love to get a kids just to keep there relationship and I was like…. Okay. This book is not for me .

✨ i really did try to read it, but it was not for me. Probably other will, but unfortunately it’s a no.


✨ Thankyou netgalley and harper Collins for the opportunity to read this book for a honest review .



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Thank you to the publisher for the opportunity to rate this book and share my opinion.

This was such a cozy read. Like a hallmark small town romance. I felt that the characters were so relatable as well.

First thankyou to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC! I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I have been reading this on and off for a couple of weeks now and unfortunately I finally had to DNF at around 35% - I really tried to push through and give it the benefit of the doubt but evidently this one wasn’t for me.

The premise sounded fun to start with but as the book continued I grew more and more frustrated with the characters. I really didn’t vibe with Rosie and Mitch was just a whole other problem for me. They both seemed immature and when they decided to put a deadline on each of their own love lives and use each other as a ”fallback” to have a baby together I became less interested. To think about bringing a baby in to the world in such an immature manner just didn’t sit with me, and like it’s that easy to just click your fingers at any given time and decide to have a baby.

The communication issues for the first part of the book really didn’t do the characters any justice either and I feared it would just get worse as the book continued so I decided to DNF.

I am deeply disappointed that I didn’t enjoy this one but I’m sure there will be readers out there who enjoy this story and these characters a lot!

So cute and fluff romance about how friendship can grow into something more over the years, no matter how many hardships and setbacks it has to go through.
I really enjoyed the concept of the once room-mates, the plan to get together by a certain point in life! The only thing that bothered me a little was, that the miscommunication of the characters could have been resolved a bit earlier. :)

Definitely pick it up if you are in need of a light and cosy romance read!

Firstly, I love the cover!

This book is a friends-to-lovers romance / fallback plan romance. I love that Rosie is in STEM, and I found parts of this story extremely gripping. However, with that said, I do wish that there was more depth to the characters in some ways, and while Rosie and Mitch do have chemistry with one another, I wish that they communicated better with each other.

If you enjoy Contemporary Romance, I recommend this book!

Thank you so much to NetGalley and One More Chapter for the ARC of this book, it is incredible! All opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins for gifting me this book in exchange for honest review.

I struggled getting into this book. The communication between characters was poor and the chemistry almost non existent.

I was hoping for it to pick up a little after a while, but it sadly didn’t happen.

This was a really cute book! Quite predictable but with this type of plot, you actually don't care about that and only want to know how the characters get there?

I actually did not love either main characters but I did want to keep reading and find out how it ended, so I would recommend this for sure!

I really enjoyed this book, I thought the story line was well written and I loved the concept, I just wished the main characters realised their feelings earlier, it seemed so clear reading it and they just didn’t get it. Overall an enjoyable read!

I didn’t go into this with the highest expectations, but this still managed to be worse than I expected. Zero chemistry between the characters, awful communication, and so many weird choices that made me want them to NOT end up together in the end. Mitch is truly one of the worst love interests I’ve ever read with zero redeemable qualities, and Rosie was so, so bland. I honestly thought this was going to end with her deciding to be on her own because I couldn’t fathom how or why she would decide to be with him by the end of this.

This very easily could have been a 1 star read for me, but *every so often* there was a glimmer of some Beth O’Leary-esque British charm that made me decide to finish this. And by “finish this” I mean “skimmed a big chunk of this because I just wanted to know what happened”. So maybe let’s call this 1.5 stars rounded up.

I always feel a little bad when I don’t get to review Netgalley ARC’s until after their pub date, but I can’t say I feel bad about waiting to get to this.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Collins UK for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. The Fallback was cute, but I had a bit of a hard time really diving into it. The idea of a "fallback" is a bit funny to me and I think it lended itself really well to the story. I didn't find either Rosie or Mitch wildly likable, I felt like I didn't get quite enough depth from them. The miscommunication did also drive me a bit crazy. Super fun idea and cute read!

I think it’s time for me to hang up my friends to lovers coat because every time i try to read one of these it never end well for me
Rosie annoyed the hell out pf me she acted irrational and immature every time she talked

And don’t get me started on mitch i hate him

Thank you netgalley and one more chaper for the arc 🫶🏻🫶🏻

DNF at 49%

I didn't really want to dive into the complexities of life's plan B's

Arc received from the publisher; all thoughts and opinions are my own.

I feel so bad that I did not get to this before it was archived. I thought I downloaded it, so that I could get to it! I will be on the lookout for reasonably priced physical copies when the book comes out!

I really wanted to like this one but every chapter has been a struggle. In theory it should work - we're all familiar with the trope - but I have zero connection to the characters and the pacing is a little too slow for my liking.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC!

This book gave me mixed emotions. After a couple chapters I figured out the plot. Nothing bad about the book but it triggered DNF for me. I just skipped to the last few chapters and it turned out just how I thought. It was just an okay read for me.

A back up plan between friends..... i think we've all seen rom-com's between friends that are 'if we're both still single in our 30's we'll date each other" and they end up in love.
That was what I was expecting and it fell a bit short for me.
Rosie was very monotone to me. She didn't have much to her and I wish there was more expression with her.
Mitch was not it for me. He seems self centered and their connection/chemistry was just dull to me. I think there was too much information not needed and there should have been more character development.

I loved the idea of this story. Girl moves to a different country, has a sweet little meet cute with a boy, falls in love with him on accident, boy propositions girl in an unconventional fallback plan and then they ride off into the sunset living happily ever after. There was a lot of filler in this book and I liked the idea that Rosie has thoughts and depth but I felt like the writing was missing… something. I did enjoy The Fallback but it took me longer than I expected to finish.

As someone who grew up on a steady diet of rom-coms and chick-lit, I’m no stranger to the if we’re not married by a certain age trope. It’s usually done so cutely, and I was happy to find a new book that could give me that. Unfortunately, this one didn’t work for me in the way that a lot of them do. It wasn’t necessarily a bad book, but it wasn’t what I was hoping for.

The summary we’re given is that Rosie is in love with her best friend Mitch, so when he suggests they make a deal where if they haven’t found someone by Christmas, they’ll be together. Rosie agrees against her better judgement, knowing that this way she’ll either meet her perfect guy or she’ll get with the guy she’s been in love with for years. What she didn’t expect was for him to fall for someone else.

Now, this summary misses out on a few key points. One of which is that this story is set over just a few months and, also, that the bargain wasn’t that they’d get together. It was that they’d have a kid together.

So, really, Rosie wouldn’t have been getting what she wanted. Not really. Actually, just trying for a kid together with no other relationship could have made things worse in the long run. It was never said that they wouldn’t date anyone else after that. So he could still have found someone else, and Rosie would have just had to be happy knowing she had some of Mitch with her always through his kid? Yeahhhh. That doesn’t sound healthy.

Honestly, though, Rosie probably would have gone with it and then just got steadily more jealous of any other relationship he had. I didn’t like Rosie much as a character. She either felt like a pushover, selfish or, in one scene, a complete jealous bitch. Like, I get being jealous. I’m a very jealous person myself. But to tell the woman he’s dating, oh by the way, he said he’d have a kid with me in the future when they’re still in the early stages as you knew it would mess things up for him? Yeah, I wouldn’t have wanted to be with her if she was gonna do that.

But Rosie got her wish in the end. Mitch actually was in love with her. And to be fair, when we see the flashback scenes? They were mostly pretty cute together. In other circumstances, I could have been okay with reading about their relationship and the way it built up. But the way it was handled in the book? Yeah, not for me.

Especially considering it led to Rosie consistently messing up at work during an important period and ignoring her friends as she didn’t want them to judge her. Yeah, that wasn’t great.

The thing this book had going for it was that it was an easy read. I got through it fairly quickly, even if I was rolling my eyes a lot. It’s definitely not one I’d reread, but I see how other people might enjoy it.

So, if you’re looking for a dramatic friends-to-lovers book with a bargain that could make or break them, this could be the pick for you.

DNF. Really struggled to get into this book. Extremely slow with too much description. I didn't like either of the characters and found them hard to connect with.