GRR Reviews Love Notes by Susan Coventry

Love Notes has a generic title hiding "platonic friends to lovers" story where she thought she's unworthy and he's a manwhore. The ending was somewhat unsatisfactory, and the book felt a lot longer than it is.

Sophia and Drew were best friends... and nothing more. They've been that way since high school, really. Both had wondered, but neither dare to ruin a good thing. They have dinner every week, but he's a roaming sales rep, and she's a librarian. When Sophia needed a date to attend a friend's wedding, with no current boyfriend, the only candidate was Drew. Besides, he owned her one after she pretended to be his GF back in high school when a girl got a bit stalker-ish. Drew is charming, smart, and sexy, but also a bit of a manwhore, with a lot of notches on the bedpost, so to speak. So Sophia has no plans to cross the line with Drew. But as they say, no plan survives the moment of contact... Now Sophia has to decide whether taking it over the line will be worth the risk...

Reads a lot longer than it feels. It says 230 pages, but it feels like a 400-page tome, probably because it did spend a lot of time kissing and caressing but falling a bit short, until the end. No major angst, but Sophia did spend a lot of time fretting with inadequacy tropes, and the darkest hour was kinda lame compared to the slow-boil tension. Above average, but not like OMG-Must-Read.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Will a platonic couple take that next step, while attending a wedding, as they've been platonic for a long time?

Tropes: wedding, friends to lovers, no good for you,

Overall Rating:  4/5