I received this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is a good beach read with a few issues in the plot. Don't dwell on them and you're set.

4 stars-
Overall I really enjoyed this book, I feel as though it could have been more fleshed out though. Overall I do recommend this.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Rosie and Mitch have been best friends ever since they became roommates when Rosie came to London to do her PHD. But one day Mitch sets each other the challenge of finding ‘the one’ before the Christmas party and if they don’t they will be each other’s fallback and raise a child together.

I flew through this book but have mixed opinions. I did like the characters and the interaction of the best friends together. I also liked the London setting as often they don’t feel like you are actually in London. But I could really feel like I was. The story is predictable and has some cute moments. I liked that Rosie was a STEM girlie and loved that part, but wish there had been more on this.

However, I felt stressed reading this book because the miscommunication! That and the beginning of the story was quite clunky, when we met new characters we had really random background information, and it took it me out of the story. Some themes could have been explored more.

Overall I enjoyed the book, but it felt like it needed a bit more tidying up.

A back-up plan between friends - but what do you do when you have fallen for your fallback…..

I have to admit that it did take me a little while to get in to this story but when i finally did it was such an easy book to read and i just wanted to keep reading to find out what happens and how it all comes together and ends…

I liked the flashbacks from Rosie and Mitch’s relationship but honestly felt that they somewhat lacked the ability to communicate with each other…

All-in-all this was a very cute little rom com and gave me a few giggles along the way…….

The Fallback by Eleanor Goymer was such an enjoyable read.
I absolutely loved this book! I couldn’t put it down and read it in one day.
I thought this book was funny, sweet and steamy. The characters had great chemistry and you really root for them to figure their stuff out to get together.
This story has everything— great side characters… great character development… and just a real natural flow to their relationship where you believe every second of it.

Thank You NetGalley and One More Chapter for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!I

Let's cut to the chase... I couldn't fall in love with either character in this twisted relationship. Mitch and Rosie are no one's prize, so it makes it hard to get into the plot. And you question how Rosie has gotten this far in her life... there was a lot of repetition, overlap of details, and not a lot of spark to keep reading. Where does a novel like this put the feminist movement? It's an awkward story....

Not posting to Goodreads. Just leaving this here.

Unfortunately, I had to DNF this book about a 1/3 of the way through. I wish I could have gotten into it more but I didn’t love either character and just couldn’t get invested with the relationship that we were getting set up for, or their friendship in general.

I could relate to Rosie with her difficulty in dating, either in" real life" or online, although there's no way way that I'm nearly as clever as she is. Again this is one of those books where you want to bash the two main character's heads together as there is mutual attraction neither of them could admit it. The first chapter did grab me, although it slowed down afterwards, but I was hoping that their true feelings would be revealed. You will have to read the book to see if this happens, despite the many pitfalls along the way.
I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley, however this did not influence my review of the book.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper Collins UK for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

I loved the idea of this story. Girl moves to a different country, has a sweet little meet cute with a boy, falls in love with him on accident, boy propositions girl in an unconventional fallback plan and then they ride off into the sunset living happily ever after. There was a lot of filler in this book and I liked the idea that Rosie has thoughts and depth but I felt like the writing was missing… something. I did enjoy The Fallback but it took me longer than I expected to finish.

Unfortunately, The Fallback by Eleanor Goymer did not meet my expectations. While it may be a great fit for readers who enjoy stories about friends discovering romantic feelings for each other, I found the plot to be predictable and unoriginal. The characters lacked depth and their actions were often frustrating and unrealistic. Additionally, the constant misunderstandings and drama surrounding the characters' relationships became tiresome. Overall, I would not recommend The Fallback to others as I did not find it to be a satisfying read.

I really wanted to like this book. I think I would have done- if Mitch wasn’t part of it. He treated Rosie so unpleasantly that it was impossible to root for a happy ending. A shame

This sounded like a cute romance, with a strong friends-to-lovers trope. While I loved the writing style and flew through the book, I sadly, couldn't connect with the characters. Definitely would recommend this to people who enjoy reading romance1

I have conflicting feelings about this. This was part funny, part head banging and part boring. There were some parts I enjoyed and other parts not so much.

The Fallback follows the story of best friends Mitch and Rosie who have ‘agreed’ to be each other’s fall back if they don’t meet other people and fall in love.

The writing was engaging and I loved how the author carried us along in every aspect. I love the women in STEM aspect and felt it was beautifully executed. I enjoyed Rosie’s relationship with her friends and family, especially Jas.

The miscommunication or lack of communication was a major turn off as the characters are in their mid-thirties and still acted like kids, especially Rosie.

I enjoyed the plot but I felt it could have benefited from fewer chapters and still made perfect sense.

If you are a fan of women in STEM romance, friends to lovers or the miscommunication trope then you will love this.

I received an advanced copy via NetGalley and the review is mine and voluntary.

What happens when you have fallen for your fallback? The man who offered you a bargain: either you each find your soulmates by Christmas, or you would be each other's fallback.

The Fallback is a sweet, fluffy romance about what happens when you fall for the man who was supposed to be the backup plan. We follow both characters as they bumble through terrible dates, while slowly realising that maybe other people isn't what they wanted.

While the premise is somewhat interesting, I found it a struggle to really connect with the story. Mitch's character is a bit rough for what this book was trying to be, and I feel like he definitely forced Rosie to change and be something different to fit what he wanted. The communication between these two was terrible.

While it was sort of entertaining, I think if it wasn't an arc I would have DNF'd it. There just wasn't enough oomph in it to keep my attention. 2.5 stars, rounded up to 3.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an e-arc, all opinions are my own.

I didn't love this.


I didn't feel the chemistry between the two main characters and so the whole book fell sort of flat for me. DNF @ 32%

I think the premise of this book was very interesting - falling in love with your best friend who is meant to be your fallback. The start of the book was quite boring and it took way too long for things to finally get interesting. However, when they did, I ended up enjoying the rest of the book. The lack of communication between Mitch and Rosie was unfortunately just terrible at some parts of the book. Goymer's writing was very easy to read and I'm looking forward to reading more from this author.

Thank you to NetGalley and Eleanor Goymer for letting me review this book.

There's characters that you want to know more of from the start. They were one of the best part of this story.

I love how this book took me on a rollercoaster ride. Really, really liked the tension, the feels, all of it.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a nice romance read.

Includes:
Flatmates
Friendships
Fallback plan

Rosie is a likeable character but I wish she had a little more gumption about her.
The inevitable relationship with Mitch took a while to come about and it did seem all on his terms and I wanted Rosie to stand up for herself a little more.
Regardless of that personal wish, the writing is sublime and you just fly through the pages without realising how far you’ve come.
A book that ultimately makes me smile is always a winner
Will definitely be reading more by this author in the future

We've all seen this before where two friends agree to be eachothers fallback whereby if they are both still single at a certain age then they will have a child together but not in 4 months! The time frame of this agreement having Christmas as the deadline and not having the story play out over a few years was a missed opportunity I think. We do get flashbacks of their friendship over the years but I would have loved to have seen the dynamic between them if their bargain had been agreed years earlier and was always lingering in the background. This book was fine but it would have been so much better if we had gotten to see the years of pining for eachother, especially if it had been written as a dual POV.

The pace of the story meanders along and then everything seems to happen after the 80% mark, and when things do happen Rosie lets her friends deal with the chaos whilst she is hankering after Mitch. I found her a bit dislikeable at times and out main characters could have solved a lot of issues if they just communicated.

I did enjoy parts but this was mostly ok. It's a closed door romance featuring secret love and women in STEM.

Mein Leseerlebnis

Auf den Liebesroman habe ich mich gefreut, da das Buchcover auf mich sehr einladend wirkte und der Klappentext eine Liebesgeschichte mit viel Gefühl versprach. Nach dem Lesen des Romans muss ich leider feststellen, dass nicht alle meine Erwartungen erfüllt worden sind, ein kompletter Reinfall war das romance Buch allerdings auch nicht.

Die Liebesgeschichte ist locker geschrieben und gut zu lesen. Ich konnte mich auf den Schreibstil ohne Probleme einlassen.

Leider hatte ich ein paar Probleme in Bezug auf die Hauptcharaktere, vor allem mit dem Helden bin ich nicht so richtig warm geworden. Er war mir nicht in jeder Situation sympathisch und ich hatte teils das Gefühl, dass er die Heldin nicht so gut kannte, wie immer wieder betont. Auch fand ich sein Verhalten ihr gegenüber teils etwas verwirrend.

An diesen Eindrücken hat sich im Verlauf der Geschichte nichts geändert, darunter hat natürlich mein Leseerlebnis etwas gelitten. Auch der Verlauf der Beziehung der beiden Hauptcharaktere war für mich nicht in jeder Situation ideal.

Nimmt man das alles zusammen, so fand ich viele Teile des Liebesromans nett, ein paar nervig und insgesamt war ich emotional nicht so tief berührt, wie erhofft.

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Für wen?

Wer romance Bücher mag, in denen aus guten Freunden nach Jahren der Freundschaft ein Paar wird (friends to lovers), für den könnte der Liebesroman einen Versuch wert sein.