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BOOK REVIEW RUNDOWN: BETWEEN FRIENDS & LOVERS


📖BOOK TITLE: BETWEEN FRIENDS & LOVERS 

📖AUTHOR: SHIRLENE OBUOBI 

📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: 
#NinetyFirstBookOf2024
For the “strong” girls. For the girls who seem to have it all together even when they’re falling apart. For the Megan Thee Stallions of the world, who everyone knows how to consume but no one knows how to protect. You deserve to be cherished too. This dedication has my heart ❤.

This is not an ordinary love story—there were some tough choices and a tough backstory, and don't you just love Shirlene's writing style? It is endearing how she pulls you into the story right from the beginning.

I'm not really a big fan of opposite-sex friendship, but Ezra and Jo are going to be friends for a long time; indeed, friends are your found family. How Ezra's family, particularly his mom, brought Jo in was so kind, even if the public spinned the story around later.

Jo's estranged relationship with her mom I didn't quite connect with it. Jo's backstory was indeed sad, but I am so happy she made something out of herself (the only person you can really count on is yourself): she became a doctor, she is a medical influencer, she got friends, and now she found a lover ❤😍.

📖RATINGS: 4 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📖QUOTES:
♡Social media is a disguise. It is the face people chose to show the world, not the one they lived in all day.

♡Even if you can’t do anything for me ever again. Even if I take care of you like this forever. I’ll be happy to just be yours.

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  1. AnonymousAugust 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM

    Social media is indeed a disguise 😪, thank God we have books

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