Laura Jane Williams has a knack for writing characters with so much depth, whilst making them feel so human - they acknowledge and accept their flaws and allow it to make them better people. The love interests are always men with more green flags than red and the heroines are able to articulate and embrace their emotions in such a beautiful way. She shows what true communication looks like - highlighting the need to not settle and be sure you’re in love with yourself, before accepting another. And she does this again, perfectly, in Lovestruck.

In this book you get hope, possibility and the feeling that there isn’t one right path for anybody to choose from. Life is complicated, full of lots of little decisions that can change our trajectory, but at the end of the day 1) we need to make sure we’re being true to ourselves and making sure we’re happy and 2) trust we’ll always end up where we belong in the end.

In true LJW fashion, there’s a whole host of wonderfully developed side characters to fall in love with!

One thing that made this book extra special for me was the fact it was set in Kings Heath - I place I spent two years of my life in my first job out of uni.


Thank you NetGalley and Cornerstone for the ARC.

I recently received an ARC for Lovestruck and, having enjoyed a previous book from the same author, I dove straight in.

The story focuses on Becca, who receives an out of the blue text from her ex one day. The book then follows two timelines; one where Becca responded to the text, and one where she didn’t.

Lovestruck was an extremely easy read. However, although I enjoyed it, I didn’t love it. I didn’t really care much for the characters and I felt like it just missed the mark slightly.

This was a nice and easy read. It’s a perfect holiday read. I loved the 2 separate times line and how it comes back to what’s meant to be is meant to be.

I normally like a good romcom, but this was just way too overwritten, and I kept cringing at all of the ‘witty’ carefully crafted dialogue that normal people wouldn’t actually have and made the characters sound more like people rehearsing their stand-up comedy routine for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival than colleagues in a hair salon.

I couldn’t finish it which is highly unusual for me as I take reviewing ARCs seriously. The reason I requested it was because Dolly Alderton and Emily Henry had pull-quotes on the cover and I have thoroughly enjoyed books by both of those authors. It’s possible that I stopped reading too early, so I think there’s every chance that other people will enjoy this. But I have a huge list of books I’m trying to get to and there’s just not enough time in life to persist with a book. I’m not desperate for bed time to keep reading!

Two stars for original setting and not-horrible writing.