{"id":26998,"date":"2021-02-18T07:46:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=26998"},"modified":"2022-10-11T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:57:33","slug":"review-the-love-square-by-laura-jane-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/18\/review-the-love-square-by-laura-jane-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Love Square by Laura Jane Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-26998\" data-postid=\"26998\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-26998 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_bbbcac8 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_49667e8 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_7036296 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/the-love-square-laura-jane-williams.jpg?w=640\" title=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Love Square by Laura Jane Williams\" alt=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Love Square by Laura Jane Williams\">\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_a1982ef customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Men are like buses. You wait for one\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Penny Bridge has always been unlucky in love.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">So she can\u2019t believe it when she meets a remarkable new man.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Followed by another.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And then\u00a0<em>another<\/em>\u2026<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">And all of them want to date her.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Penny has to choose between three. But are any of them The One?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_23787e9 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2d1ea91  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-26064 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dnf-300x300.png?resize=77%2C77\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"77\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong> Feb 9, 2021<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> N\/A<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0HarperCollins<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Avon\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $2.99<\/p><hr \/><p><br \/><br \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I really tried to get into this book, but it\u2019s boring.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First off, let me say that I gave this book a chance, walked away, came back, gave it a second chance, skimmed a bunch of pages, and then gave up.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is that fair? You can make your own choices, but I\u2019m not in my twenties or early thirties anymore. As we age time becomes a more precious non-renewable resource that we never seem to have enough of and after last year I\u2019ve decided to not waste time any more on books that don\u2019t interest in me or grab me, even those I\u2019ve signed up to review.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This book is about a woman who at the beginning of the story is leaving this man she\u2019s spent weeks with to go take care of family business. It\u2019s a prologue about her driving away from him, uncertain if her time away will make the heart grow fonder. Equally uncertain if she should have asked him to go with her and then she drives away. While the heroine had a nice, catchy voice this prologue never resonated with me. I was bored with her wish-washy ways and inability to state the truth. She wanted this dude to go with her, so tell him that.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next chapter, six months prior&#8230; and close the book. No, thank you. I didn\u2019t want a rehash of the past. I wanted the future, and I didn\u2019t want to spend fifty percent of the book getting there. So, I walked away. When I came back to the story two weeks later, convincing myself I wasn\u2019t being fair to the poor book, I started reading and was still bored.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heroine doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s pretty. Heroine is boring. Heroine can never find a man. Then she finds this guy and it\u2019s awkward fumbling, awkward encounters and this whole teenage-like courtship happening between grown adults. We finally get to intimacy and it\u2019s awful. I put the book down. The other parts of this love square (I went back and read the blurb) are not materializing fast enough. FYI: This is not a romance; this is women\u2019s fiction and speaks to my growing dislike for the illustrated cover industry.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Side Rant:<\/em> Illustrated covers are quickly destroying the delineation between romance and women\u2019s fiction. With romance I get a promise, an HEA, a story where people fall in love with each other, and often two points of view. Though illustrated covers are this mixed bag of I never know what I\u2019ll get.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case of <strong>The Love Square<\/strong>&#8230; I got a dud.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_eb0616c customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2NFO3BX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-love-square\/id1480818209?itsct=books_toolbox&amp;itscg=30200&amp;at=11l88k&amp;ct=books_the_love_square&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-love-square-laura-jane-williams\/1132676945?ean=9780008365448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-love-square-the-funny-feel-good-romantic-comedy-to-escape-with-this-christmas-from-the-bestselling-author-of-our-stop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Laura_Jane_Williams_The_Love_Square?id=u1ilDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men are like buses. 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You wait for one\u2026<\/strong><\/p><p>Penny Bridge has always been unlucky in love.<\/p><p>So she can\u2019t believe it when she meets a remarkable new man.<\/p><p>Followed by another.<\/p><p>And then\u00a0<em>another<\/em>\u2026<\/p><p>And all of them want to date her.<\/p><p><strong>Penny has to choose between three. But are any of them The One?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dnf-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"77\" height=\"77\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong> Feb 9, 2021<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> N\/A<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0HarperCollins<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Avon\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $2.99<\/p><hr \/><p><br \/><br \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>I really tried to get into this book, but it\u2019s boring.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First off, let me say that I gave this book a chance, walked away, came back, gave it a second chance, skimmed a bunch of pages, and then gave up.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is that fair? You can make your own choices, but I\u2019m not in my twenties or early thirties anymore. As we age time becomes a more precious non-renewable resource that we never seem to have enough of and after last year I\u2019ve decided to not waste time any more on books that don\u2019t interest in me or grab me, even those I\u2019ve signed up to review.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This book is about a woman who at the beginning of the story is leaving this man she\u2019s spent weeks with to go take care of family business. It\u2019s a prologue about her driving away from him, uncertain if her time away will make the heart grow fonder. Equally uncertain if she should have asked him to go with her and then she drives away. While the heroine had a nice, catchy voice this prologue never resonated with me. I was bored with her wish-washy ways and inability to state the truth. She wanted this dude to go with her, so tell him that.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next chapter, six months prior... and close the book. No, thank you. I didn\u2019t want a rehash of the past. I wanted the future, and I didn\u2019t want to spend fifty percent of the book getting there. So, I walked away. When I came back to the story two weeks later, convincing myself I wasn\u2019t being fair to the poor book, I started reading and was still bored.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Heroine doesn\u2019t think she\u2019s pretty. Heroine is boring. Heroine can never find a man. Then she finds this guy and it\u2019s awkward fumbling, awkward encounters and this whole teenage-like courtship happening between grown adults. We finally get to intimacy and it\u2019s awful. I put the book down. The other parts of this love square (I went back and read the blurb) are not materializing fast enough. FYI: This is not a romance; this is women\u2019s fiction and speaks to my growing dislike for the illustrated cover industry.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Side Rant:<\/em> Illustrated covers are quickly destroying the delineation between romance and women\u2019s fiction. With romance I get a promise, an HEA, a story where people fall in love with each other, and often two points of view. Though illustrated covers are this mixed bag of I never know what I\u2019ll get.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the case of <strong>The Love Square<\/strong>... I got a dud.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2NFO3BX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-love-square\/id1480818209?itsct=books_toolbox&amp;itscg=30200&amp;at=11l88k&amp;ct=books_the_love_square&amp;ls=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-love-square-laura-jane-williams\/1132676945?ean=9780008365448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-love-square-the-funny-feel-good-romantic-comedy-to-escape-with-this-christmas-from-the-bestselling-author-of-our-stop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Laura_Jane_Williams_The_Love_Square?id=u1ilDwAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}