Lindsay (pawsomereads)'s Reviews > Begin Again

2.5⭐️
I'm so sad I didn't like this one more. I think this author's writing is great and I always love the premise of her books, this one just didn't work for me.
I was a little bored through the first 30% or so. Things started to pick up but it didn't go in a direction that I really enjoyed.
I thought this was going to have more romance in it, but it really ended up feeling like more of a coming-of-age story that happened to be set at college and really just the MC figuring herself out. There were lots of life lessons discussed -but it was almost too much? It’s like every 5 pages characters are confronting their life’s big problems and it feels like a spiral where they just keep going back to the same flaws and having the same conversations about them.
For the little romance that was included, I couldn't really get on board with it. It felt like very close to cheating and that's never something I enjoy in books regardless of what gets revealed later on in the story.
The MC was annoying. I was not a fan of Andie and her saying-cutesy-food-words-instead-of-swearing thing. This was supposed to be an older YA novel as it's set in college but it felt juvenile. I did really like some of the side characters like Milo and Shay.
I've come to expect fun books from this author that still have some substance, but this just didn't feel fun.
At least there were Taylor Swift references.
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!