4 stars We're now three for three! Abby Jimenez writes the kind of romance I love and she's given me three books I've absolutely adored. Though I'm not sure she'll ever be able to top 'The Friend Zone' for me, I still loved this one a lot! If Vanessa had a motto, it would be to live life to the fullest. Take the trip. Go for the experience. She's spent years being a travel blogger/youtuber doing just that. Living each day to the fullest and experiencing new things. Now, she's back in her hom...

4.5⭐WOW... I was totally not expecting this!! I think I was judging the book by its cover, cutesy and maybe cheesy romance? NOT at all. This is a wonderful love story with so much chemistry and great characters and overall a very delightful read.Set in St. Paul, MN, this is a romance between Adrian, a lawyer and Venessa, a travel vlogger with a high risk of ALS. She plans to be single without children as she believes her life is short like her mother and sister. Women in her family die by the ag...

can't tell if this is a seasonal depression apathy thing or if this is really just meh. gonna go with the latter. i like the idea of romances with a lot of real life in them, but for some reason authors can't seem to find a good middle ground. we have quirky characters with no true personalities in bubbly rom coms or we have intensely traumatized characters with a LOT of shit to work through. and there's absolutely a time and a place for both, but i can't help but feel burnt out reading all of t...

3.5 stars Good things first:• I liked the writing (this is a new author to me). I read this in record time because it just flowed very well, both the story and the way it was told. • I liked the humour, it wasn’t extremely funny but the banter between the characters was smart and entertaining. • The plot itself was simple and to be honest there wasn’t very much there, but that wasn’t a bad thing necessarily, I expected maybe a bit more but again, it was okay the way it was in the end. • I love

This booooooooooook. Right off the bat, I was hooked. Jimenez's sense of humor, her way with language, and the nuance of her characters were clear from page one. The book just SPARKLES. I will be honest, I'm a person who generally avoids books with strong plotlines about terminal illness, and Vanessa, one of LTS's main characters, has spent most of her life reckoning with the 50% chance that she will develop hereditary ALS.I'm not sure anyone but Jimenez could have guided me through a book with

Trigger/CW warnings for Life's Too Short: ALS, mental health (OCD/hoarding), parental abandonment, addiction, grief and lossNow a New York Times Best Seller!!!!"Jimenez masterfully blends heavy issues and humor, lacing the tear-jerking heartache with sass and sarcasm. Series fans and newcomers alike will be moved by this emotional rom-com." —Starred review, Publishers WeeklyJust popping in to remind you that Indie bookstores need your support right now more than ever. Please shop small and order...

Review Posted on blog: https://books-are-a-girls-best-friend... Let me be frank: I have a Love/Hate relationship with this book. What I loved: The characters and their relationship. What I hated: The major plotline (and I have my reasons).Ok, so let’s get down to it:I LOVED the characters of Vanessa and Adrian (even though Adrian is my dad’s name and it’s almost impossible for me to find someone with that name attractive (sorry, not sorry!). Truth be told, yes, in this novel, the character of A...

Life's Too Short , Abby Jimenez's upcomiing third novel, is fun, sexy, moving, romantic, thought-provoking—boy, did I love it!!Vanessa is a wildly famous travel YouTuber who has to put her career on hold when her sister decides to leave her infant daughter in her care. For an adventure lover and adrenaline junkie like Vanessa, however, instant motherhood is a challenge like none other.When she finally meets Adrian, her brooding, ridiculously sexy next-door neighbor, it’s 4:00 am, the baby has

‼️SPOILERS‼️Gosh, I got mixed feelings. It shouldn’t be this hard to rate a book, should it? First I will say that this is funny. It did make me laugh which is one thing I always enjoy from a book. I love Vanessa’s bluntness. Well, I did, until she kept objectifying Josh’s body, especially during their intimate parts. It would probably not be a big deal, but I wondered if it would be funny if Adrian decided to text his friends about Vanessa’s body parts. Other than that, the story was a bit clic...

Well, Abby Jimenez, has done it again. I have fallen in love with this couple in the most charming way.Life's Too Short is full of humor, sweet moments, and awareness. We only have one life to live and you have to make a decision on how you want to live it.For Vanessa Price, the answer is simple. She wants to live in the now and in the fullest way possible. She wants to travel and do things that make her happy. She has lost loved ones and with her sister's death, she knew she had to make a chang...

I’m sorry.I know that I ignored a lot of your emails and texts, yesterday...but I FINALLY got my hands on a copy of the latest FRIEND ZONE book by the AMAZING Abby Jimenez and I just couldn’t be disturbed!! I don’t like many romance books, but I LOVE hers! ❤️Her romance trope is Friends to Lovers, but in each book, the attraction is always there from the start but our courageous leading ladies won’t let their incredibly hot suitors get close, because they are struggling with SOMETHING and do not...

I loved the first two books in The Friend Zone series, so I'd been looking forward to reading Book 3. Sadly, this one didn't work for me 😟.Here's why it didn't work:1. The writing is cheesy and clichéd. This surprised me, since I remembered the writing in the previous books being much different.2. The plot was unconvincing and based on too many serious topics. The previous books dealt with one serious situation each (Book 1: infertility, Book 2: loss of spouse). In this book there's ALS, mental

I’m a big believer of living life to the fullest. Enjoying life. Doing the things that bring me happiness. Being passionate about life, friends and family. And not living in the past.Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez had everything I love about a romance. It was adorable, fun and enjoyable. Especially the first three quarters of the book were wonderfully romantic, passionate, and heartwarming. The last quarter struck deep and was much more emotional than I was prepared for.All the things I loved:...

Wooooooww! I’m truly deeply and madly in love with this book! Can a person smile from ear to ear and cry like mad woman who was at the edge of ugly nervous breakdown! This book is not only the best book of Friend Zone series or the most perfectly written Abby Jimenez book, this also deserves a place at my all time favorite romance books list : a book which should be read more than once, a book which makes you feel everything: making you laugh so hard, pushing you think more about incurable disea...

Okay, so I just finished this one late last night instead of sleeping, because that’s what Abby’s books do to me.Her books have this way of melting together the heavy and the humor, and Life’s Too Short is no exception. It has all the classic Abby sass and sarcasm I crave in her stories, while also tackling real and serious issues that people face every single day.Heavy topics are dealt with in here (ALS, addiction, mental health), but the laughs are woven in exactly when you need them, and not

3.5 starsThis one is so hard for me to rate. I really enjoyed book one and LOVED book two, so I had high hopes for book three. Vanessa is a travel vlogger, but she just got custody of her half-sister's baby, so she's taking care of her and is stuck at home. When Grace, the baby, can't stop crying one night, her lawyer neighbor Adrien stops by and ends up helping. And he and Vanessa grow closer while helping take care of Grace together. I do want to preface this review by saying this book deals h...

This was one of my most anticipated reads for this year!I absolutely loved the previous two books by this author and had been sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for this newest release by Abby Jimenez.Maybe my expectations were too high? Maybe when you want something so badly it just never holds up in reality.Vanessa has fears she has the same terminal condition that claimed the lives of her mother and sister. She knows that due to genetics her chances of contracting the illness and dying ar...

First and foremost, thank you Abby for the advanced copy of this book to read and review. One thing that Abby Jimenez has proven over the course of three novels is her ability to write heartbreaking, heartwarming, believable and hilarious romances. She is also incredible at grounding her stories in real, life-altering issues that people face on a daily basis. Whether it's infertility like in "The Friend Zone" or grief after losing a loved one in "The Happy Ever After Playlist," Jimenez takes the...

I have mixed feelings on this one. I actually liked both of the main characters a lot, I like that we get both of their POV’s, but damn!!! This book was sad. It was so much heavier than I was anticipating — especially considering the first two books in this romance series were pretty light hearted for the most part. I know life can be hard and sad, but most of the time I read romance to escape it and this was just so dark and a lot more sad than I was anticipating! I felt the same when I read Th...

I've read Abby's two previous books, I loved TFZ and was mad about HEAP. Life's Too Short was firmly in the middle, a mehish read for me. Abby writes books that are very "readable" for me. They are fast paced and I am interested in what is happening. I started this book on a Saturday and finished on Sunday. I was very interested in Vanessa and Adrian. I enjoyed their friendship development and then as lovers. They really seemed to balance each other out. I also liked that he stepped in and was a...