Pretty cute. I liked how the conflict felt very genuine, like ok this is a pretty good reason they can't be together rather than most romance where a single conversation can solve it lol.
Ngl though I agree with those “bratty” friends if the owners dog dumped a half eaten squirrel on my breakfast that's definitely a 1/5 star experience
3/5 feels low because I did enjoy the worldbuilding and I think it sets up for what could be an incredible story, but in itself it did sort of drag because nothing really happened. The final 10% was phenomenal but 90% of it was really just them travelling to a city lol. Can't wait for the next one though
The emotion in this book is insane it almost had me in tears. 5/5 for characters and backstory. The problem is the main heroin plot was so obvious and therefore dull, so I couldn't really get behind most of this book.
Sorry mr Osman you are not quite as subtle as you think you are, if you make two characters at the beginning both make a comment about the ugly terracotta box, then I'm gonna pay attention to the box
The author clearly wanted to write a world war-esque romance but couldn't be bothered with the historical research do it, and apparently couldn't be bothered to do the world building for a fantasy version either, so we have this world that doesn't actually make any sense because it's based on aesthetics alone
I enjoyed the plot, love a time travel plot that wraps itself in a neat little bow, but the writing wasn't great, you can tell it's a first novel
Also there were some things like the romances between the 20 something leads and the 50 something men, the way the fmcs commented on how they shouldn't eat so much or they'd get fat literally every time food was mentioned, the over the top racism and misogyny from one of the villains, that were really unnecessary to the book and just seemed to give away the authors biases in a very alarming way, and although they were really small parts of the book it did leave me with a bad taste