by Marisa Kanter
coming May 6, 2025
(3 / 5)
Thank you to Celadon Books and NetGalley for the complimentary copy of Friends with Benefits; all opinions are completely my own.
Evie and Theo are best friends who enter a marriage of convenience so that Evie can have health insurance coverage and Theo can keep his apartment.
While this book was a romance, it had a sad undertone and dived into some very heavy topics such as chronic illness, parental issues, and death of a parent. I appreciate the difficulty of these experiences, but I think it got to be a bit much for me at times. The story seemed to move pretty slowly, and there’s a lot of repetition and revisiting past events. I found it frustrating how much the main characters were denying their feelings… for best friends, they seemed to avoid talking about things a lot. This was by no means a bad book, but I think it turned out to not quite be the right book for me, or at least not the light read I was expecting.
