If you enjoyed Not That Kind of Ever After you’ll love It Must Be True Then by Luci Adams!
I enjoyed this story immensely it was exactly what I needed! This book hooked me immediately and continued to deliver comedy throughout.
It was a fun read with characters who felt real and fully formed. The characters were charming and the story was the absolute best.
I totally recommend this to my other rom-com, contemporary romance readers out there.
This one is an absolute gem and I guarantee you won't be able to set it down once you start. 


Thank You NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

I really wanted to love this book. Daisy was such a hard character to like and I felt like the relationship between her and Archie just wasn’t believable. The story felt slow and and I felt like the flashbacks were a jumbled mess.

It Must Be True Then by Luci Adams is a novel focusing on Daisy, a woman who has hit rock bottom, as she believes it to be. I felt like this book was a little challenging to follow, requiring the reader to be focused and putting together the pieces that you are getting while the flashbacks are occurring. I also feel like I went into this book thinking it would be more of a romcom, but when I read the book, it was actually pretty sad and made me feel awful for the MFC, Daisy. Overall, I thought this was an okay book, but it wasn’t what I was expecting.

Who can’t relate to a young girl who is just trying to make a place for herself in a world that’s tougher than she is… for now. Daisy is all of us, tired of the constant need to show only the good sides of our lives.

Sophie Cousens fans will fee right at home with this story.

I liked this book but at times really struggled with the jumps from the flashbacks to the present day. Also for me at times Daisy wasn’t the most likable character to read as evidenced by her “best” friend not telling Daisy she is pregnant because her friend knows Daisy doesn’t like kids. Why wouldn’t you tell your best friend huge news like that. I did feel like Daisy started to redeem herself at the end Thank you Net Galley and St Martin’s Press for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This was a cute book with a really enlightening message. I really enjoyed the main character, except when she started acting stupid for the third act break up, but alas she needed to learn her lesson. I’m glad I randomly requested this one it was fun!

Thank you Netgalley!

Ohhhh this was a cute one. I’ll admit, I was nervous when I started it. Daisy’s life was definitely not going to plan, and I can have a hard time relating to a main character who is a mess. Thankfully, Daisy isn’t a mess in all aspects, and is a kick ass data analyst who is super freaking good at her job, so we can let her cooking skills slide. I really loved seeing how things played out in her life, Mia, Archie, etc. Luci paints such a visual story with her words as well — all I wanted was to see Archie’s house in person! This read was really a treat.

I was invited to read this title and I should have passed on it. I picked it up a few times and never got into the story. I didn’t like the character and the story didn’t hold my attention at all. I DNFd at 18%.

It Must Be True Then starts with main character Daisy losing her job and getting dumped by her boyfriend in the same day. Plus, she's in a fight with her sister, she's estranged from her mother, and her best friend lives on another continent. Daisy doesn't want to wallow, but since her job was her life, there isn't much else for her to do. Eventually, she decides to try to win back her ex and save face with her former colleagues by faking success and adventure on Instagram. After all, if she can put something fabulous online, it must be true...

Thus is born the novel's title, and its theme. While Daisy has been wallowing, she's also managed to make some new friends - widowed Archie and his daughters Cara and Bailey - and she's learning a lot from them about Instagram and life. Like that maybe her job and her boyfriend weren't as perfect as they seemed, and maybe her fight with her sister wasn't quite so one-sided, and maybe the childhood lessons that have informed her views were learned the wrong way around. When Daisy has a chance to get her old life back, she must decide if she wants to go back to the setup she spent so long cultivating - or if a less picture-perfect life might suit her better.

I don't usually write two paragraphs of plot summary in a review, but I this book needs it, because it's not obvious - either from the promo copy or the first third of the book - what it's going to be about. It Must Be True Then takes a while to warm up, but I stuck through it through the slow first half because it was a pleasant read and I enjoyed the characters - definitely a Sophie Cousens feel. I'm very glad I did, because the story really comes together in its second half. I loved watching Daisy gain a new understanding of her past and re-evaluate what might make her happy - without changing anything at the core of who is. I've rarely seen such a perfectly imperfect ending to a romance, and I loved it.

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

This book was absolutely, wonderfully sweet. This is my first Luci Adams book and it definitely will not be my last.

Daisy’s redemption story here is what made the book so memorable and I really enjoyed the character development here. She was quite a “disaster” for lack of better words but it led to a lot of hilarity and her character was so relatable.

I do not typically read “non-spicy” books. While this one was closed-door, it had a great slow burn to it that I did not even really notice that there was a lack of spice.

My only comment that might be considered a negative, is that the pacing was kind of weird in certain places. BUT, that did not lend itself to not allow me to enjoy the book.

I wanted so badly to love this one, but unfortunately it just didn't deliver for me. The pacing was very slow and usually that's not a big deal, but in this case, I also wasn't the biggest fan of the FMC, Daisy, so it was hard to stay invested when not much was happening. The main thing that put a damper on this was the secondhand embarrassment I felt when Daisy went to some pretty great lengths to try to win back Jackson (who, to me, was not worth it at all). I really hated that journey for her. The main thing/person that I did love was Archie. He was SO sweet! He had me when he sent Daisy dinner after a cooking incident that went wrong. I think I would have loved this one much more if the romance happened much quicker.

I really enjoyed Luci’s first book so easily requested this one. But I found that the pacing was wildly off here. It took forever to get going. I also didn’t really like the main character. But I loved the kids and Archie in this.

This was a sweet rom com. In this story we meet Daisy who is going through the worst time of her life. Daisy all in one day has lost her job, gotten dumped by her boyfriend, and is not speaking anymore with her sister. Daisy struggles holding onto her old life, stuck in the past and all her regrets. While she is struggling to rebuild her life, she meets these two sweet precocious girls and a handsome man who keep showing up in her life. This was a nice story about finding our way in life, and learning what is most important. I loved Archie, Bailey, Cara, and Betsy, but struggled a bit to connect with the stubborn opinionated Daisy. I took a star off because the pacing was very slow and Daisy was hard to connect with. I received an ARC and this was my honest review.

I have no idea what was going on in this book. It read like a series of unrelated hallucinations. DNF.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC.

This had a little bit of backwards storytelling, so it took me a minute to get situated with the use of flashbacks to reveal pieces of information, but I quickly became invested in the endearing mess that was Daisy Peterson!

After losing her job of thirteen years, her boyfriend dumping her, and her relationship with her sister crumbling, Daisy is determined to climb her way out of rock bottom. I loved in this hilariously desperate attempt to win back her old life, Daisy slowly discovers the importance of embracing her true self.

Lots of uplifting messages in this one, especially involving social comparison and finding people that accept you and not just the curated version of what you think will please them. I’m a sucker for women’s fiction with humour and life lessons. And without giving too much away, the romance was beyond precious!

Daisy is down on her luck. She's fired. Her boyfriend dumps her. Her sister isn't speaking to her. And now she's not sure what she wants to do with her life. But after a chance encounter with two kids and their very attractive father, things start looking up.

I adored Adams' last book and this one was just as good! Here's what I loved:

-The humor. Adams has this really great sense of humor in her writing. I find myself laughing right along with the characters a lot. Her dialogue is snappy and just works so well.

-Daisy. This book is really all about Daisy and how she comes into her own. The romance is secondary to her life journey, and I was fine with that. A major topic in the book is the image people put out for others on Instagram. I found this it be very modern and a needed lesson for so many.

-Archie. This man was perfect. Scottish. Lovable. Single father. A little lost. Just perfect.

-The kids. I really liked Archie's two daughters. They were funny and added some good drama to the story. I looked forward to scenes with them.

All in all, this was a really good romcom with so many amazing elements.

Thank you to the author and publisher for the gifted copy.

I struggled with this one. It took me a while to get into it and by the time I did, I didn't really care enough about any of the characters. I'm bummed. I liked the premise, but it just wasn't executed well.

This book turned out different than what I expected. It held a lot of promise but unfortunately it ended up not being my cup of tea. The writing was good and I liked some of the characters but some things really ticked me off and made it hard to really get into the story and fully enjoy it. One thing I had a hard time with was the constant flashbacks. Some of them I could understand the value to the story and how it was brought but lots of them I could've done without. Also Daisy was a character I had a hard time appreciating and liking. Her constant judgement of everyone (that was mostly harsh), her personality was just not for me. I wish I could've seen a bit more redemption for her and a good turnaround. The romantic aspect of the story also felt a bit forced and non existent between the characters. Overall it was still a good story just not for me.

Thank you to St Martins Press and NetGalley, for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

I went into this book optimistically thinking it would be a sweet and funny Rom Com… it was not. It was not really a romance at all, it was more like a sad retelling of Daisy’s days, over and over.

Daisy was an extremely hard main character to like. She saw the world as very black and white, and was quite harsh in her judgements of people. While I did feel bad that she lost her job and was dumped in the same day, it was hard to really empathize with her when everyday all she does is judge other people, and take pics for her instagram.

Also the “romance” between Archie and Daisy didn’t feel real, or genuine, or even happy. It always felt awkward, their conversations, their interactions, and every single cringeworthy time Daisy delivered a sour speech to Archie that she would NEVER want children, even though he has two children. Daisy felt insufferable to me, Archie seemed less than interested in her, and this whole book felt like a jumbled mess of mixed timelines/life events that just didn’t really add up to any great story.

- 5 stars. 1 spice

- A story of unexpected but necessary heartbreak to rediscover her authenticity, find healing, and self love in a very relatable messy way.
- Archie and kids were absolutely the cutest and their dynamic made me want to be a part of their little family too.
- I love how wholesome the 4 of them are together!!! I want more of them!!
- I can see this easily being turned into a movie.
- cute kids, single dad