Written in the Stars
Alexandria Bellefleur
Release: November 10, 2020
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With nods to Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice, a charming #ownvoices queer rom-com debut about a free-spirited social media astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an uptight actuary until New Year’s Eve—with results not even the stars could predict!
After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love—and the inevitable heartbreak—is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn’t expect her lie to bite her in the ass.
Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account, Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy... a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual, and skeptical for someone as free-spirited as Elle. When Darcy’s brother—and Elle's new business partner—expresses how happy he is that they hit it off, Elle is baffled. Was Darcy on the same date? Because... awkward.
When Darcy begs Elle to play along, she agrees to pretend they’re dating to save face. But with a few conditions: Darcy must help Elle navigate her own overbearing family over the holidays and their arrangement expires on New Year’s Eve. The last thing they expect is to develop real feelings during a fake relationship.
But maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars?
Review:
Y’all! I adored Written
in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur so much! This book was adorable
and heartwarming and almost perfect! It’s a sapphic romance with so many
Pride & Prejudice undertones and nods that I geeked out the whole time I was reading! It kind of ended up being a retelling of the P&P and I am here for it. Add in the fake dating relationship and this book was my kind of
book crack! I can’t recommend it enough! It was a total five star read
for me!
What made this book so great was the characters and how fleshed out the main ones were. I loved how confident Elle was in all of her nerdery and was not ashamed of what she loved. I also loved Darcy from the start despite her bad reaction to the incident on her and Elle's blind date. Darcy was so Darcy-like that it was amazing! I loved that she was an actuary with an unholy love of soap operas. These characters felt so real to me. As much as I loved this book for the f/f romance, I adored Elle and Margo's friendship and the sibling dynamic between Darcy and Brendon! Elle's family and Darcy's mother, not so much.
This book had so many tropes and things I loved in it. The only thing that would have made this more perfect
would have been more of Elle and Darcy being together together because the
ending, while good, felt a bit abrupt to me. Maybe we’ll get more of them
together in the companion novel about Darcy’s brother, Brendon. I can’t
wait to get my hands on it! I need his love story in my life too! And I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that we get Margot's happily ever after as well. Alexandria Bellefleur is an author that I'm going to keep my eye on, that's for sure.
ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley.
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