Book Details
Date Read: October 7, 2022
Publication Date: April 2022
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Format: Physical Book
Page Count: 372
Listening Time: 10 hours 5 minutes
Print Publisher: Forever
Audio Publisher: Forever
Part of Your World Book Review
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez is a book you will find a lot of love for on Bookstagram, and I understand why. It’s a witty banter, instant attraction, easy to read romance story.
In it we meet Alexis and Daniel, who meet by chance when Alexis’s car breaks down near his small town. Their attraction is instant and their conversation is easy – they enter into that cute new crush bubble quickly. And that’s the key word… bubble. Because outside of their one-on-one interactions, Alexis only sees hurdles and challenges.
Daniel is the mayor of a small town, running a bed & breakfast and selling furniture that he handcrafts. Alexis lives in a big city and is from a long line of surgeons, feeling the pressure to work long hours at the hospital that’s named after her family. Underneath it all, Alexis is still recovering from her prior abusive relationship and is struggling to let Daniel into her life.
There is a lot I loved about this book. Their interactions were incredibly sweet, and Daniel was just so easy to love. Alexis was on a self-awareness journey that evolved over the course of the book and while I didn’t always love her choices, I thought the author gave her evolution a thorough arc. Daniel and his friends showed such patience, grace, and forgiveness while Alexis worked through her awareness, healing, and choices.
If you enjoy forbidden love, opposites attract, instant connection type stories that flow easily, this is an excellent choice. I’m new to romance and have a long history of reading books that strip characters down to their soul and make me cry (I know, I am real fun) … so I love deep resolution of past traumas or relationship issues and I am still adjusting to more lighthearted books. If you are like me (aka also real fun), this might leave you longing for more depth to the forgiveness and growth part. That said, it did not detract from loving this book and I am eager to read her next one, out this spring.
Content warnings: Classism, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Gaslighting
