P.S. I Hate You - Sophie Ranald

Genre: Romantic Comedy | Romance | Fiction

Release Date: Expected 3rd March 2022

Publisher: Bookouture

It's been 7,305 days. 240 months. 20 years.

Abbie and Matt have been together for two whole decades, since their love story started when she was just seventeen. They were meant to be a fairytale, but they had no idea what would come after the happily ever after happened and they walked away together into the sunset. Their sex life is dead, Abbie doesn't remember the last time she felt any type of spark and Matt is … quite honestly boring and a little bit hopeless. But Abbie isn't willing to settle or just walk away - so she starts Operation Memory Lane - thinking that just maybe if they relive the start, they might be able to find the spark they once had.

But instead of a Spark, Abbie finds everything is on fire - there are things in the past they've both hoped would stay there, and if they're not careful it might just be the thing to make their marriage explode for good.

"Romeo and Juliet, only without the poison and the dagger and the hapless priest."

I'm a simple woman - Sophie Ranald writes a new book, I devour it in one sitting without even looking at the blurb. Full of absurdly hilarious antics that could (hopefully) happen in a book, sickeningly sweet romance and as always, a feelgood glow that radiates through the pages.

Abbie was so utterly relatable - she perfectly encapsulated the way a small thing can seemingly break someone, especially if you don't notice the thousand other small things that came before. It gets into the gritty, frustrating parts of a relationship, the harsh realities of love and romance that we don't talk about. She tells us the painful truth that a past doesn't always guarantee you a future. I was watching their relationship unfold and grow in front of my eyes, as we see them move forward and look back at the same time.

The early 00's nostalgia in this book as go back and relive their origin stories was so painfully funny and realistic it made me physically cringe. I was taken back to a time of frosted eyeshadow, Smirnoff Ice and low waisted jeans (which honestly, can stay back there, please!)

"I don't care if I never kiss anyone else in my life, ever again, she thought. And twenty years later, she hadn't."

⭐⭐⭐⭐

I was gifted an advanced reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review.

CW: Fertility, Divorce, Sexual Content.

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