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NetGalley Review of I Love You S’More

Posted on April 1, 2025January 21, 2025 by caritagardiner
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title: I Love You S'More

author: Auriane Desombre

publisher: Delacorte Romance

publication date: April 8, 2025

pages: 256

peppers: 1 (on this scale)

warnings: breaking up, cheating on a girlfriend

summary: Ivy is happy to be back working at her childhood summer camp after getting dumped by her long-distance, television-star girlfriend. Unfortunately, what should be her safe space becomes unpleasant when she finds out that her ex-friend Rynn, who friend-dumped Ivy five years earlier, also works at the camp. And what's even worse, the camp director makes them co-direct the summer musical.

tropes:

  • enemies-to-lovers
  • famous girlfriend
  • forced proximity
  • back to camp

what I liked: great LGBTQ representation without making same-sex couples seem like something that needs to be explained.

what I didn’t like: Ivy is quite brooding and lacking in self-awareness for almost all of the novel, and in the end, all of a sudden, she understands everything.

overall rating: 3 (of 5 stars)

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