Better Than the Movies

Packaging for good and luckily not pirated. Amazing read for beginners looking to get into reading. Beautiful story, I live the author.

Loved the book and the book quality

Loved this book. Best book in enemies to lovers trope 😍 If you love movies like “To All the Boys….” , this book is for you. ❤️

completed the bok in 2 days and the book had me screaming giggling and throwing my feet in air. cutest love story

It is my favorite rec of the year. This was my first book by Lynn painter and now she has my heart. This book was so fun to read I finished it in two days. My soul, heart and my body loved this book. I loved the Taylor Swift references.Amazing book . It will always remain an epic book for me. The second book will also be releasing soon for which I'm so excited.Lynn painter never disappoints. It will always remain an infinite star book for me.

Although the quality of cover was not upto point but the book - omg it’s lovely and so cute! Must read if you love romcoms.

The package is very good, no damage, book delivered in perfect condition

Swoony, Superfun and cute YA romance.

Amo amo amo, la historia y el libro es superrrr bonito.

O livro perfeito para a geração atual !Que traz o ponto de vista de uma jovem louca por vida dentro dos livros e filmes, q conforme o livro anda entende que os romances podem acontecer na vida real só não como esperado .

I read this YA rom-com slowly to ensure I did not miss any of the hilarious banter between main characters, Wes and Liz.The pop culture references to books, movies and music is impressive.You know where the story is headed but how it gets there makes this book an incredible page-turner.Highly recommend.

Huuuuge shout out to Ms. Painter for finally breaking my DNF streak! And with a killer 5 star story to boot! It is first person POV through only Liz's eyes (hallelujah!!!! for single POV), clean with a good bit of swearing."Enemies-to-lovers--it's our trope, Buxbaum.I loved pretty much every single thing about this book. It was captivating, it was enchanting, it was absolutely everything you want in a YA rom com. It wasn't cheesy. It wasn't unrealistic. It wasn't cringey or over the top.This book has throwbacks and mentions of all your favorite Rom Com movies, complete with a soundtrack at the end of the book of all the songs mentioned. I thought it was going to be formulaic with trying to recreate romance tropes, but it was not. The romance talk, the tropes, the movies referenced, were all integrated into the book seamlessly and flawlessly. Liz was a fantastic FMC because she was confident and secure in her oddities. She actually liked her quirks. Wes was a great MMC because he was normal. He wasn't too-good-to-be-true as a high school boy. He wasn't super arrogant, over the top flirty. But he was so good. The author captured teenagers (and their parents!) so perfectly that I felt like I could've been listening to a story from one of my high schoolers. It was refreshing and wonderful to read teenagers that actually sounded like teenagers--complete with slang and lingo that normally sounds really awkward and out of place to me, but here worked and sounded like it made sense.I read a review that complained that Wes was just a standard YA MMC, and I guess he was. He wasn't crazy douchey. He wasn't weirdly awkward. He wasn't super arrogant. He was normal. He was realistic. And it was adorable.As much as it made me tear up, I loved watching Liz's relationship with Helena develop. What a tough and sensitive subject matter to tackle, and Ms. Painter did it so beautifully.I hate how much Liz lied to Joss, but a lot of it was understandable. EXCEPT the Wes stuff. A girl who is utterly and completely obsessed with all things romance doesn't *want* to spill her guts about her new crush to her best friend?? I get that it would've been messy and complicated given her quest to get Michael and she's already lied a bunch about that, but it still just felt . . . weird. However, I love that author didn't just have Joss roll over. The resolution on that conflict was done really well. Again, very realistically and great for the reader.I went into this book thinking that she was going to set up different tropes for her and Michael to go through to get him. I honestly thought it was going to read a little more formulaic in that sense--and I was totally fine with that--and I was very pleasantly surprised to find out I was wrong. The Rom Com stuff was woven effortlessly and seamlessly into the story in a way that didn't feel disjointed like I thought it was going to. It wasn't over the top. It wasn't on every page, shoved in your face, THIS IS THE PLAN. Again, it just felt more realistic, and I loved that.My only complaint would be that I felt like the timeline didn't match up to real life for things like the basketball team still being in the playoffs (Feb maybe March) but it was also close to Prom (typically an April/May thing); baseball season had only just begun but we're prepping for Prom; Michael left his TX school senior year with less than a month left but then I think he's enrolled at their school? And I thought I remembered Prom being 2 weeks away but she hadn't bought her dress? (And does that mean everything happens over the course of just 2 weeks because it felt like there were more days covered than that.)This story was developed perfectly, paced to perfection, and written impeccably. And it just felt incredibly real. Even all of the teen lingo that was snuck in throughout the story--it just worked. Pick it up. This is one of those "cannot put down. One more chapter" kind of books. I cannot wait to reread this one. It's perfect for teen and adult alike. It's perfect for a romance lover or not. It it just perfect.Guys. This book made my stomach swoop like I was in high school crushing on the boy next door. I used to get this feeling when reading all the time when I was younger. When it disappeared, I figured I'd read too much romance, figured out the formula, grown too old to believe in fairytales... I don't know. But this book gave me that actual, physical feeling, and because of that, it is my duty to pass it along to you reading this review.And it is most definitely better than the movies.

i will reread this book as many times as i can until my last breath, this is just perfection on paper