Then Came You Book Review

My content warnings:

• Hospital scenes/hospitalization
• Cheating 

My biases:

• Can’t stand overt, blatant, and obvious rudeness

Then Came You by Lisa Kleypas

#1 in Gambler Of Craven’s

Read: May 2021 – February 2022

Star Rating (of 5): ⭐️⭐️⭐️

• Not too angsty
• Alex reminds me of Marcus

• Liked Alex & Lily ♥️

Enjoyment 🤗: 🤗🤗🤗

• Fun story 😁
• Excited for Dreaming Of You 🥰

Heat 🔥 : 🔥🔥🔥🔥

• Like Pringles 😏
  • Once you pop, the fun don’t stop 🛑 😂

Intensity (1 to 100): 70%

• In private ALWAYS
• Not super memorable 

Predictable? (Predictability): Y

Content warnings: Missing children, nightmares, death of a loved 🥰 one

Prevalent Tropes: Enemies to lovers

Tropes I like! 😍

1. Caregiving/sick bed
2. Fake Dating 
3. Friends to lovers
4. Found family
5. Single parent
6. Bodyguard 
7. Marriage of convenience 
8. Disability rep
9. Forced proximity 
10. Wallflower 
11. Bookish heroine
12. Only 1 bed 🛏
13. Teaching 🏫 
14. Road Trip Romance 

How it’s used…

Lily wants to prevent her sister, penny, from marrying Alex

Smutty times 😋:

• 8: Bet 🙌🏽
• 8:.#2 😏 
• 9: Masked 😷 assembly
• 11: Revenge 😂🤬
• 14: Resolution 😁

3-word Summary: “Young”, wild, (and) free

Representation: 🤷🏽‍♀️

Thoughts 💭:

• Prejudices 🤔
• Blackmail 🤔