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Cover Image: A Guide to Being Just Friends

A Guide to Being Just Friends

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Tara H, Media/Journalist

Fun, fast, and relatable
This is a cute friends-to-lovers, slow-burn romance that handles the pacing well and believably shows the healing process that two different people needed to undergo. I hadn’t read the two previous Jansen brothers’ books, but reading this one made me want to, especially since the brothers and their significant others were so well characterized in this book. I appreciated the realistic banter between Hailey and Wes as well as the realistic portrayal of sibling love and rancor.
Wes’s back story is particularly gut-wrenching and realistic, with a hang-up that I suspect many readers will be able to relate to if not from their own lives than from someone they care about. If you’ve ever been afraid of opening yourself up to love because of being jaded or hurt in the past — surely that describes millions of us — then you’ll relate to the anxiety and trepidation both Hailey and Wes feel as they recognize their growing feelings. This book nicely hits the spot with a fun, fast romance read.
I read this book compliments of an advance copy from NetGalley.
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