I kind of had an “oh” moment when we were first introduced to her mom and how she and Dash’s mom made a pact to purely marry for money and that can give you a general idea of what type of character to expect. I thought that Peggy’s family dynamic was actually pretty healthy, all things considered.I can hand it to Fields for wanting to create a story that sounds good and for figuring out all the important points to hit to attract various audiences to this book. Like I said, on paper this book sounds like it should work and in the overall idea and premise is very good.For my own personal tastes, it wasn’t the right execution for this story the way I expected it.

My opinion is that it’s not the kind of good girl-bad boy dynamic that it should’ve been, and it didn’t have the best friends to lovers dynamic that it should’ve had. Is that Ella Fields’s fault entirely? Maybe not, because there are a fair bit of people who enjoyed the book and that’s their opinion. In reality, it was so poorly executed that I couldn’t enjoy it. On paper, this sounds like a book right up my alley. It felt like a very “on paper versus reality” kind of thing. I went into this book thinking it was going to be that classic good girl and bad boy romance, the best friends to lovers trope that is always a favourite of mine, and the elements were there on the surface, but the story and the characters didn’t make me feel the way I wanted to. Like I’m sure it was fine to some degree but not what I expected. I just wanted to read a quick NA romance, partly to get my reading count up and partly because it sounded like a good book for me, but it wasn’t. Unless, of course, you want to ruin everything. You’re definitely not supposed to kiss your best friend while you’re dating someone else.Īnd the absolute worst thing you could do is fall for your best friend. You’re not supposed to kiss your best friend.

Until our senior year when I finally decided to dip my toes into the dating pool.Īll it took was one kiss for jealousy, lies, and betrayal to sweep in and propel us heart first into dizzying, hostile depths. Yet somehow, we’d been best friends our whole lives. He was an abrasive, demanding, conniving, intolerable brat. From bestselling author Ella Fields comes an all-new, turbulent, new adult romance.

Kiss and Break Up by Ella Fields