Have you Met Sally

Would it be toxic to say that the only qualm I had with this book is not liking the main character? In my usual fashion, I love basically anything that Ali Hazelwood writes. I loved Eli and I loved the plot and the concept of the novel. Just not Rue. I also don’t entirely have a reason why I don’t like her. Mostly just her vibe. Or the fact that she says more in the last few chapters than in the entire first two sections of the book. But that may just be personal.

I know almost the whole premise of this book was to be more spicy than her others but I honestly don’t know if I believe that. It just didn’t feel like genuine spice if that makes sense. I guess like no chemistry, just infatuation with the idea of the other. Probably my top spiciest book right now by Ali Hazelwood would be Love, Theoretically. But I do need to go back and reread it. But overall I really enjoyed the vibe of competing companies type enemies-to-lovers style that the story holds. And the fact that the actual plot outside of the romance had an ending too. And somehow, it didn’t feel too rushed even though everything at the end of the novel happened so fast.

In terms of the characters themselves, Rue just seems to be pulled in five different directions in my mind. She’s just one of those characters where her name and description have almost no correlation to me. She just doesn’t sound like she would be named Rue, if that makes sense. I’m not sure how but she just felt unfinished to me, as opposed to every other character. It just feels so forced which may have been what throws me off. On the other hand, Eli makes perfect sense to me. His general vibe of a character fit perfectly into the role he portrayed in the book and I honestly wouldn’t change a thing. Except maybe give him more dogs. He just seems like that kind of guy.

I wish that Goodreads had the option to give partial stars on books. I internally debated between 4 and 5 stars as my personal rating of the novel would be 4.5. My boyfriend and I talked about the justifications for rating this novel and it came down to would I question giving it 5 stars if I went back to look at my review in a years time. I guess at the end of the day I can hope that the story ages as well as I hope it would. And just hoping that anything else that Ali Hazelwood writes lives up to the hype that I’ve built up for her writing over the past year.

xo Sally