Book Review: Fate & Fried Chicken

 

Isla Monroe is a compulsive planner with colour-coded calendars, a five-year plan, and a personal goal to "be more spontaneous" without having a panic attack. Ellie Burns is a chronic underachiever who’s coasting through life, dreaming of more but too busy avoiding her terrible boss and her own fears to actually look for it.

So of course, the two of them are destined to be best friends.

When a painful breakup leaves Isla feeling like she’ll never have her meet-cute moment, Ellie convinces her that all they need is a little “planned spontaneity” for destiny to work overtime and deliver their soulmates. You crafting meet cutes over spilled coffee, staging accidental run-ins with the lead singer of the band, purposely stumbling on curbs and getting caught by attractive strangers…

But when Isla’s impulsive decision to act as Ellie’s fake girlfriend to fend off family drama and an accidental kiss under the New Year’s Eve disco ball feels way too real, they each start to realize that no matter how hard they try to make sparks fly with someone else... they keep tripping over each other instead.

The only problem? One of them isn't sure she's doing this for the right reasons… and the other has sworn off falling for her best friend ever again.

Fate and Fried Chicken is a slow burn sapphic romcom full of friends-to-lovers heat, queer awakenings, and the realization that sometimes the real soulmates are the friends we "platonically" spooned with along the way.


My Review

Isla and Ellie make a cute couple. i could not get enough of them. If I was to compare myself to one of them, I would say I am like Isla. She is more reserved than Ellie and sticks up for her friends. Not that Ellie is not kind and would do the same. Ellie is an extrovert. 

I felt so bad for Ellie with the way her family; especially her grandmother treated her. Yet I was cheering when Isla stood up for her. That evening was a changing point in Ellie and Isla's relationship. I loved the slow burn romance of these two. 

I loved Cheryl's other series featuring Nellie and JP, so much. I was sad when it ended. Yet, this book helped heal me heart. This book still features sprinkles of the witty banter that I have come to expect from Cheryl. Um, I am going to need more sapphic romance books from you, Cheryl. This book may not be about fried chicken, it is better. It is feel good read that features engaging characters, witty banter with sprinkles of spice and fried chicken!

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