exes and o’s by amy lea

Exes and O’s by Amy Lea – Review and Thoughts

Tara Chen is a book influencer who loves romance novels and has to move into an apartment with a Boston firefighter. On hearing about her grandmother falling in love with a previous boyfriend, Tara decides to re-visit her exes and her new roommate helps her along the way.

“Electricity courses between us in wavy cartoon lines. The mental barrier I’ve placed to convince myself he is not my type has vanished into a poof of swirling black and purple smoke.”
Amy Lea, Exes and O’s

A cute romance that was fun and distracting but wasn’t my favorite. I’m surprised that it did make me think a lot and I took a TON of notes.

What I didn’t like

It feels like this book came straight from a millennial online – same remarks
I kind of hate that it’s a mirror of today with the internet, specific apps, influences
This has nothing to do with the book itself – “Linus has been a loyal Liker of my posts…I interpreted as a surefire sign he would be down to father my children.” – whoa. Social media isn’t real life, people need to chill.
Tara is a little much with holding onto the stuff from memories with her exes
Tara calling Trevor a womanizer was a double standard that we see all the time today, which really gets on my nerves

What I did like

Tara is like a funny, seemingly genuine girl
I do like that Lea writes how neither people in a relationship are perfect and both can make mistakes.
Firefighter romance
I laughed out loud and rarely have big reactions to books like that
Though I didn’t like that this is soooo similar to life right now with all of the social media references and phrasing from today, I couldn’t get enough of the drama.

“The last thing I want to do is report to [my followers] that it’s all been a complete and utter failure.”
Amy Lea, Exes and O’s

That’s part of the problem with social media. Some of the people may be your actual friends or may become friends with the influencer, but how much should their opinions really affect the influencer’s life? Their opinions shouldn’t! That’s exactly why we don’t like receiving unsolicited advice from other people, because it’s not their business.

Read on and remember some of those romances hold great surprises.

Alessandra is reading…