Because I believe we all deserve the chance to be seen for who we are in our present, not for who we’ve been in our past. Because I believe that while you can’t rewrite life’s previous chapters, you have every present moment to do something new, something better, and I hold one to hope that anyone who wants to can shape their life into a story they’re proud of.” My brother's teammate and best friend Seb needs to save his reputation. I want to give mine an edge. So I propose a fake friendship with real benefits: spending time in the public eye, my good-girl image and his bad-boy notoriety rubbing off on each other. But will it be as easy as I think to keep him in the (fake) friend zone? Ziggy says, “While you can’t rewrite life’s previous chapters, you have every present moment to do something new, something better, and I can hold on to hope that anyone who wants to can shape their life into a story they’re proud of.” — and that’s exactly what this book is. I’ll start praying again if that’s what it takes for this trope to get hyped. Instead of non-consensual kisses forced by situations, we got our kisses by pure need of the characters and there was no miscommunication about whether or not they felt something. They were trying to figure out how to do things, putting themselves first and then proceeding to fall because 💫 chemistry was in the air 💫The only thing I would have changed was having a bit more time with them together before the book was over. We use if only to express a strong wish that things could be different. It means the same as I wish but is stronger. We use it to talk about past, present and future unreal conditions.

I am excited to finally read Viggo’s book and find out what he is doing in Escondido that’s so secret. It doesn't make sense to say I wish I helped you because the action of "helping you" is, we would normally assume, something that is really possible and not just an imaginary or hypothetical action. So it would be usual to add "could" to show that I wanted to help you, but I was not able to do it or it was impossible to do it (for some reason). In conclusion, if you haven't read any of the Bergman Brothers series and met these adorable family members, you are missing out on a lot!

ughdhkdjf don’t even get me started on mr. sebastian himself. I LOVE EMOTIONALLY CONSTIPATED BROKEN MEN??? he’s just so good but so full of self-loathing it was heartbreaking to read. and the way ziggy constantly saw through his bad-boy-don’t-give-a-shit front and made him realize that he is so much more than what he thinks of himself? i want to die. I could curl up in Liese's writing for days, I love it so' Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient Those made-up worlds contain some of the most tender, scary, beautiful human truths, navigated in the safety of imagination, whose wisdom and hopes I take with me bravely into my own life. I appreciated how easy it was for them to communicate, that they felt safe enough to be vulnerable around each other.

The Bergman family meddling was perfect, where it wasn't too much. I really enjoyed getting to see Ziggy as her own person, instead of just "the youngest Bergman." There is also such a good Viggo scene in this book, and it makes me really excited to read his story next. I could gush about this book all day, but the one thing I always say about a Chloe Liese book is that I feel like I came home at the end of it. The Bergman family is not perfect, but they are so supportive of each other and their partners. Seeing Sebastian basically be adopted by the Bergman clan, and watching his relationship with Ziggy flourish, warmed my heart to no end! He's been going through so much that I just want to give him a hug. The way he took his time to be better with Ziggy. He really made sure to love himself enough to love her. Ziggy, the youngest and the baby of the Bregman family, proposes a fake friendship with her brother's best friend, the troublemaker Sebastian. Ziggy helping him with his diet post-diagnosis was adorbs & the Shakespeare/bookish connection while a little on the nose made for cute interactions - speaking ofOkay, im crying cuz it was so damn beautiful and ain’t no way i can do it justice in a review but RTC anyway.. I used to be terrified of that stare. Now I think I just might crave it. Because it means she’s trying to understand me.”

A ella se le ocurre un plan, fingir una amistad con Sebastian para manchar un poquito su reputación de niña buena y Seb gana una restauración de imagen o el plan es un win/win. As usual, the author has great neurodivergent and chronic illness rep. We saw in Always Only You how Ziggy struggled in school until she was able to start getting the help she needed once she was diagnosed with autism. Seeing her out on her own using her coping skills made my heart warm because I feel like we've grown with her from the start of this series. I liked seeing how Sebastian coped with his celiac disease diagnosis. As a professional athlete, he was afraid of how his life would change with the newfound diagnosis. I loved that Ziggy was 1000% supportive of the diagnosis by helping him navigate a new diet and meal prep techniques!

if ˈonly

Because of Frankie’s nearly ubiquitous presence in If Only You, I can only rate this novel 1.9/5 stars. I want to soak up and breathe in whatever’s inside this woman that charges the air and makes my atrophied, frozen heart want to grow and warm and heal and fill with things it hasn’t in so long." We can use wish + would(n't) to show that we are annoyed with what someone or something does or doesn't do. We often feel that they are unlikely or unwilling to change. Caring. Trying. It makes me feel like I’ve unzipped my skin and let it drop to a puddle at my feet, leaving me unnaturally, terribly exposed She shrugs. “I don’t know you well enough to say that, Sebastian. I don’t plan to hold against you what the world’s said about you.”

This was one of my anticipated reads for 2023 and I still don't really know how I feel tbh. I adore Ziggy and am so glad she got her HEA, but this felt less like a romance read and more like a bff book - maybe 🤔 Throughout this book I cheered, screamed, yelled, gasped, laughed, cried, and just smiled so wide. This book was everything I hoped it would be and I can't wait to reread it 100 times this year also she is on the autism spectrum and he diagnosed with celiac disease. they talk about it openly and be there for each other 😭 her family is the best i love how they adopted sebastian when his family was a total shit show just like they did it for willa with different reasons.

if only

Even if I shouldn’t. I know I shouldn’t. I don’t deserve to touch her, comfort her, offer her anything of me. But I am selfish and greedy, and I want this moment to know that even in all my undeserving, I can give her this." Seb needs to rehab his reputation. I want to give mine an edge. So I propose a fake friendship with real benefits: spending time in the public eye, my good-girl image and his bad-boy notoriety rubbing off on each other. He’s my devious, dark-haired fantasy come to life, but his destructive ways make it easy to keep him in the (fake) friend zone. Or so I thought, until I start to see the heart of gold he’s been hiding beneath that sinister surface…