Title: Don't Tell Me How This Ends
Author: Adrienne Thurman
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
publication date: April 14, 2026
pages: 320
peppers: 3 (on this scale)
warnings: birth, parental abandonment, heartache, alcohol, early onset dimentia
summary: Kaia Harper knows that men always leave, so she's perfectly happy getting what she needs from one-night stands on her apps...until her very pregnant and very persistent sister Zola needs to use Kaia to test run her new match-making service. Zola will set Kaia up on three dates to prove her questionnaire system works. Along the way, Kaia, who doesn't need or want help from anyone, keeps running across tow-truck-driver Ro, who has to assist Kaia.
tropes:
- he's more than he appears
- sister's pregnant
- growing apart from my bestie
- putting up emotional walls
- absentee father
- hot mess mother
what I liked:
- voice
- humor -- such great lines!
- sisterly relationship
- the romance
- great professions of love
- Kaia's journey of self-discovery
what I didn’t like:
- n/a
overall rating: 5 (of 5 stars)
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