A Guide to Being Just Friends - by Sophie Sullivan (Paperback)
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20 February, 2023
Not as expected. Some spoilers in review below.
Hailey Sharp is ready to take a fresh new spin on life. She has left her low-life ex, moved to a new city, and started her very own business. By the cup, her cute and unique salad shop is the main thing on her main. She wants to see it succeed, and prove to others she can do it herself with no helping hands. Wes Jansen is tired of dating apps, he doesn’t understand the appeal of dates and love. He may not like the guy, but his father taught him to be a businessman first and that love isn’t worth the time and effort. Life is a game that has to be planned out methodically and work comes before passion. When Hayden… I mean Hailey crosses paths with Wes in the local coffee shop, plans may need to be rewritten. I have very mixed feelings about this book. Overall, it was an enjoyable read with a nice plot and storyline but the execution fell flat in my opinion. At first, I was ready to give this book a four-star rating or above, but as I mulled it over I realized there were lots of holes in the details. Certain moments did not flow very well and conversations seemed choppy. This book did not feel rushed or jam-packed, it felt unfinished and left me with so many questions. **Potential Spoilers Incoming** There are so many names to remember in this book, even if you have read the first two in the series, there are lots of new names that you have to remember the whole time. On that note, some characters never show up again or they're missing for a large chunk of the book and then randomly come back. The community center either needed to be discussed more and added to or it should not have been talked about so much. We were expected to be invested in the relationship, in the brother's businesses, in By the Cup, and in everyone's personal lives but then all of those points never really felt completed other than the romance between Wes and Hailey. The detail that made me realize how incomplete this book felt to me was after the speed dating. It would have been so cute if we saw Wes interact with Haley and try to lightly flirt with her “as friends”, and also him joking around with Fiona when he got to her table. Sophie Sullivan made a point to write that the women sit down and the men/partners go around but we only got to see a few matches that did not add a ton to the storyline. The dinner after speed dating could have been where they discussed how awkward things were and how they are all tired of dating. Also, I really wish we got to the conflicts earlier so we could have seen how Wes evolved and changed his mind over time. I know there is more that I currently cannot think of, I remember quite a few times realizing all the little gaps along the way. Overall, certain aspects of this novel did not feel planned out well. Too many details in some places, and missing information in others.