Foursome- Jane Fallon

If there's ever an author to read when you're wanting a classic, dramatic rom-com then Jane Fallon is your woman.

Although my favourite genre is crime thrillers, I can't say I'm not impartial to a cheesy, heart-warming romance because it's my guilty pleasure.

There is something about Jane’s blend of friendship, relationships, enemies and comedy that just hits the spot.

I remember reading 'Getting Rid of Matthew' far too young when sex wasn't exactly on my agenda for the next 5 years. But I enjoyed it, the light-hearted humour, the waves of emotion that her books take me on, even when I don't want to admit it, I get deeply invested.

Foursome (as I know is not new, but it's new to me), is home to such personable and relative characters, you see the depths of each character. There is no single line of good and bad, a blur between the two. Of course, you start off hating certain characters for being utter pricks, but that's the thing about Jane’s books they reiterate that everyone has reason to their shittiness, and life isn’t just black and white.

For a book I have read during some heavy balancing of 3 major university modules, the WWIII moral panic, Brexit and the Corona Virus hysteria it was a breath of fresh air something I could have a good laugh at whilst empathising thoroughly with the narrative.

I deeply appreciate Jane’s lack of focus on characters that fit the beauty stereotypes, but aren't insecure, or obsessed with changing themselves. It's empowering and I love it.

So, with all that added together, I'd have to say I’d give this book 4.5/5 - minus the .5 because the narrative frustrated the hell out of me, and I'm stubborn so I can't give it the perfect score.