While I appreciate the book covering these topics, I personally couldn’t find myself emotionally invested in the story.

The book also balances themes about family by focusing on the main character’s mom having early onset dementia and how that has affected her and her father. The main characters decide to have their own romcom montage, which is cute to see and I hope girls will be able to envision this for their own life too. This is a coming-of-age sapphic YA story that makes a lot of references to typically straight romcoms and involves the characters discussing how LGBT+ movies often end in tragedy. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real. Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up-and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out.īut after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings.

Ciara smyth the falling in love montage