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Georgie, All Along: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Love Story

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The one thing that gets her out of her funk is that, while helping Bel unpack, she finds a friend fic they wrote together in middle school. But this is different, because while the plot is slow, the romance is actually close to insta-love and moves far too quickly. Without going into detail, both Georgie and Levi go through some tough stuff at the end, and while I didn't love exactly how those hard moments were catalyzed (this is maybe my only major complaint about the book), the emotional aftermath of the low moment is done really well. this is an incredibly internal book and i felt like you got far too much of the characters thoughts and not enough plot. Clayborn’s capable hands the story transcends the trope and becomes something simultaneously deeper and refreshingly different.

Readers shouldn’t expect a rom-com (there are few laughs here), but the smooth, vivid prose makes it easy to invest in the protagonists’ well-rendered character growth. In many other hands, Georgie would've been OTT and cringey but somehow she was made to be loud and chaotic and it feel genuine instead of put on. Touching upon themes of loneliness, isolation, family, friendship, love and kindness, this is a story that will strike a chord in your heart. She decides to move back home to her parents’ and help out Bel, who is now 8 months pregnant with a new home in Darentville. This book is hilarious and moving and sexy, with a focus on strong female friendship, guilt that's hard to let go of, and one of the most realistic, and ultimately romantic, fake fiance´setups I've ever read.Kate Clayborn’s writing is magnetic and witty and expansive, and her characters feel as real and solid to me as my own limbs. Their attraction and their romance was a delicious slow-burn, so expertly written by Clayborn it had me sighing and swooning at all the right moments. And it seems that she does live there… but it was written like a low budget movie character might speak in a Southern accent. Levi is potentially one of KC’s most vulnerable heroes—he has gone through a lot, and made some bad choices, although this part of his history is never dwelled upon or treated casually—but I loved how carefully he is treated.

Despite this being - in true Kate Clayborn style - an internal book, with lots of inner monologues and thought processes for both MCs in switching POVs, I felt there was not much depth to the characters. But, despite his broody behaviour, Levi can’t help but quickly fall in awe of Georgie and her kind-heart and amorous nature, finding himself desperate to try—to try to be a better man; to try and coax a smile from the beautiful woman who makes him want to live a different kind of life than the closed-off one he’s been living for so long. I mean, they’re fine, but they always felt oddly heteronormative to me as well as occasionally disconnected from who the characters.With Nadia’s suggestion that she can take the time to do “all the things you want to do”, Georgie decides to head back home for a little while, spend some time with her best friend and her family while she works out what she wants to do next. There she meets Levi, older brother of her high school crush, and initial awkwardness and wariness gradually becomes something more.

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