Hang the Moon: A Rom-Com Filled with Movie-Inspired Dates and Sibling's Best Friend Relationship

Spoilers & Thoughts Below!!! •A cute rom-com story that had me smiling from start to finish. •Brendon, who is a complete romantic sets out to prove to Annie, who has sworn off relationships that romance isn’t dead and happily forevers do exist. •I absolutely loved this book so much, it had so many amazing tropes including childhood crush, friends to lovers, the one bed, and cheesy romantic moments. •Dual POVs of Annie and Brendon. •Enjoyed all the 90s romance movie references, especially When Harry Met Sally. •Liked how we got more of Darcy and Elle’s story, which if you haven’t read their book I also highly recommend! •The pacing in the beginning of the book was somewhat slow but definitely moved along towards the middle. •I feel like this book was also just a love letter to Seattle and as the reader I loved getting to explore and fall in love with the city like Annie did. •Annie and Brendon’s chemistry was incredible, their banter was hilarious and they were so adorable. Just absolutely loved their development. •There is some spice, wasn’t a lot but it still was really good and Brendon was just a consent king! •Honestly, Brendon’s character is the reason why I fell in love with this book so much. He was adorable, funny, believes in love, watches romance movies, loves Disneyland and even has an UP tattoo. He even gave Annie the space and the time she needed to sort out her feelings and choices. Like where can I find a guy like him! •Annie was also such a…

Okay I just have to say a spoiler related thing here so fair warning. The whole book sets up this crises wher OTP is trying to reach out to more potential users and Brendon decides to focus on "love languages", and then Annie, who hates her job but loves translating has this hurdle about not having a job if she moved to Seattle... I kept waiting for somebody, ANYBODY, to suggest "why don't we offer OTP in VARIOUS LANGUAGES to widen the dating pool to non English speakers and hire Annie to do the translating?" and then that just never came up. It's a cute story though how involved Brendon and Darcy are with each other's love/sex lives is a little weird in my opinion. I hate meddlers in such intimate relationships, and feel like Darcy of all people should be more sensitive to that after what happened to her friend circle after the Natasha thing. Add on that theyre siblings and it just really annoyed me. The formulaic "won't they" moment in this one felt especially contrived. You know there's always going to be one but I had hoped for something with a bit more depth and nuance since it had seemed sort of self aware in the first half with all the rom com and Jane Austen references. And shouldn't Annie know who Jenna (girl in photo with Brendon on facebook) was since she went to the wedding with all of the employees of OTP?? Not a bad book and looking forward to Margot's story, but I had just hoped for something a little better.