Yours Truly
Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man-doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's "pain in my ass" scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter.
And it's a really good letter. Like the kind that proves that Jacob isn't actually Satan. Worse, he might be this fantastically funny and subversively likeable guy who's terrible at first impressions. Because suddenly he and Bri are exchanging letters, sharing lunch dates in her "sob closet," and discussing the merits of freakishly tiny horses. But when Jacob decides to give Briana the best gift imaginable--a kidney for her brother--she wonders just how she can resist this quietly sexy new doctor . . . especially when he calls in a favor she can't refuse.
"Abby Jimenez's words...sprinkle humor and warmth all over my life." -Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis
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After loving [b:Part of Your World|58684524|Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)|Abby Jimenez|https:i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1634649284l/58684524._SX50_.jpg|90170665], I was excited to dive into another Abby Jimenez book, and while Yours Truly had its moments, it didnât quite hit the same for me. The first two-thirds? Loved. Fake dating? Sign me up. Only one bed? Absolutely. I was eating it up. I also have to give credit where itâs due: Abby Jimenez knows how to poke fun at the genre in a way that just works, and I appreciated that a lot.
My favorite part of this book: the diversity. I might just be picking up the wrong books (which would explain why I rarely love contemporary romance), but I was genuinely thrilled to finally see a Latina FMC in a mainstream cont rom. Brianaâs struggles, her upbringing, the way her past shaped her fearsâI felt that. It made her character so much more real to me.
Now, the things that didnât work for me⦠For all the diversity in this book, I wish the secondary characters had been developed more. They felt more like convenient plot devices than fully fleshed-out people, which was a bit of a letdown. And the miscommunication trope? I can forgive it in angsty teen dramas, but two grown doctors who somehow cannot just say âI want youâ when theyâve been openly vulnerable about so many other things? I struggled with that. I understand Brianaâs trauma and Jacobâs social anxiety, but they communicated just fine in other moments, so why suddenly not now? By the last third of the book, I was so frustrated with Briana that I almost wanted to throw my Kindle.
That said, Iâm still glad they got the happy ending they deserved. It was a good read, just not quite as transcendent for me as Part of Your World.
I loved the chance encounters between the main characters. This book was spicy, entertaining and screamed âWomen power!â Abby Jimenez will always be an auto-buy author for me.
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