How to Get a Life in 10 Dates by Jenny L. Howe: My Review
Check out my book review of How to Get a Life in 10 Dates by Jenny L. Howe to see what I think of this friends to lovers romance with great body-positivity.
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How to Get a Life in 10 Dates
by Jenny L. Howe
Category: Contemporary Romance
Tags: Friends to Lovers, Love Triangle
Published December 2024
Amazon | Goodreads
Rating: ★★★★
Book Boyfriend: ★★★★
How to Get a Life in 10 Dates Summary:
Dating as a plus-size woman has been exhausting for Haleigh Berkshire. Sure, she’s only twenty-five, but she’s been doing it for a decade, and she’s beginning to think it’s time for a sabbatical. It doesn’t help that she’s been madly in love with her best friend, Jack, for years—but one disastrous weekend in college taught her the hard way that they’ll never be more than friends.
With her sister’s engagement celebration fast approaching, and her friends and family nagging her about a plus-one, Haleigh and Jack do what they do best: scheme. Haleigh agrees to let her friends and family set her up with ten people—and she’s sure that, once none of them prove to be good matches, her loved ones will finally let her fade into romantic retirement in peace.
To her surprise, some of Haleigh’s dates go better than expected, and for the first time in forever, she’s actually having fun. Until Jack starts breaking all the rules they’d made to mend their friendship in college. He produces a laundry list of flaws for everyone she likes, crashes some of her nights out, and finally shocks her by throwing himself into the mix. Dating Jack has always been the dream, but Haleigh is afraid of the reality. Is it worth risking her best friend for something that may have never been meant to be?
How to Get a Life in 10 Dates: My Review
Jenny L. Howe is on a mission to increase the number of romance books in the world that are inclusive, diverse and representative of plus-size heroines and heroes and she hits the mark with How to Get a Life in 10 Dates!
She blew me away with On the Plus Side so I was eagerly awaiting her next release. With it, she continues to show that she’s on a mission to bring more inclusive and body-positive romance books to the genre.
Haleigh is a twenty-something plus-size woman who’s grown weary with the dating scene despite feeling the pressure from her family to settle down and at least bring a plus one to her sister’s engagement/graduation party.
To show how dismal the dating world truly is, she asks her family and close friends to set her up on 10 dates with potential suitors who know in advance that she’s plus-size and if things don’t work out despite her/their best efforts, then she’s taking a dating sabbatical. One person agreeing to her plan is Jack – her best friend of many years who she hooked up with once and on whom she’s had a lasting crush.
The only person to succeed in setting her up is her roommate with a guy who seems pretty great but then Jack throws himself into the mix as a potential date.
I liked the friends to lovers set-up but Jack wasn’t really my favorite book boyfriend and that’s OK. I like that Jenny doesn’t make him perfect but I didn’t really care for how he treated Haleigh. That being said, I enjoy Jenny’s writing and loved seeing some of the characters from On the Plus Side make their cameos.
I wasn’t sure if this was going to turn into a true love triangle romance because I liked but suitors for her for their own reasons, but I’m glad that she could finally have the man who had always had her heart.
*Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced reader copy. All opinions are my own.
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