Publication Date: 01st July 2025
Purchase Link for Amazon (UK):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Your-Money-Back-funniest-ebook/dp/B0FDBMMZQQ
Purchase Link for Amazon (US):
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Your-Money-Back-funniest-ebook/dp/B0FDBMMZQQ
Goodreads Book Page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236605619-love-or-your-money-back
Genre: Contemporary Romance
3.5 Stars
One Liner: Fast-paced
Book Blurb:
Is marriage about
love or marketing?
Kat is 34, single
and running out of time – she wants
to get married before she turns 35, but her fiancé just ditched her for a
21-year-old life coach.
Freddy is a
ruthless marketing guru who thinks
love is just transactional. He’ll use his marketing genius to make Kat the most
sought-after woman in London if she lets him rebrand her struggling company.
With her 35th birthday looming
and her love life a disaster, Kat agrees to become Project Marriage.
Can a rebrand king sell
happily ever after? Or is love something even the best marketer can't package
and promote?
A smart, funny
romantic comedy for fans of Emile Henry (Funny Story), Lucy Score, and Ali
Hazelwood.
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My Thoughts:
The story comes in Kat’s first-person POV and Freddy’s third-person POV.
I heard great things about the author’s (Probably) The Greatest Love Story Ever Told and had high expectations from this one. Guess that affected my reading experience a bit.
The book has a terrific pace.
No denying that. Also, it will keep you hooked from start to finish. I read it
in one sitting (and stayed awake longer than I do).
The dual POV, with one in the
third-person, is a wonderful choice. Not only do we get both their
perspectives, but we also have no confusion about the voice.
Another plus point is that the
FMC has Multiple Sclerosis. Relapsing-Remitting MS, to be precise. She can do
anything on a good day, but stress and anxiety can screw it up in a few
minutes. Living with MS is not easy, and we see clearly how it affects a person
physically, psychologically, and emotionally. It has been seamlessly integrated
into the plot.
Let’s just say that my liking
and disliking of the MCs was like a Sine wave. As the story progresses, more
aspects come to light. What we see at the beginning is not what it is. However,
what we see in the next few chapters is also not what it is.
The FMC is a total despo.
Cringe-level max. But this is deliberate characterization. Readers are not
expected to agree with her always. Rather, we are to see her strengths and
flaws and hope that the bulb will ding over her head and enlighten her. It
won’t be easy liking her when you want to knock sense into that brain and
wonder just how naïve someone of that age can be.
The MMC is okay. Shows promise
and stays true to his arc, which means he will also annoy us quite a bit. It’s
almost like a contest – who will exasperate the reader more, lol! This should
have made me dislike the book, but it had the opposite effect since it was done
intentionally.
There’s a QR code in the last
quarter for those who want open-door spice. The author got 50-50 votes on
whether to include spice in the book. So, she inserted it as an optional choice
(kya kya karna padta hai, to keep all readers happy). Of course, I read
it, but later, after finishing the book. There’s also an option to sign up and
get a bonus epilogue. You know I can’t resist an epilogue!
There are some funny moments
too. Despite everything, I can’t say I enjoyed this a lot. It was fun and
interesting, but that’s it. I wouldn’t sing praises about it, though.
Maybe if the backstories were
a bit more detailed or the characters (especially the FMC) spent more time
introspecting the toxic patterns in her life, it would have worked better. That
would have changed the genre from rom-com to rom, but methinks it’s worth a
shot.
To summarize, Love or Your
Money Back is a quick and lighthearted read with some heavy themes that don’t
weigh down the plot or narration. It should work as a beach read or an autumn
afternoon read.
Thank you, Rachel’s Random
Resources and the author, for the eARC. This review is voluntary and contains
my honest opinion about the book.
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Author Bio – Suzy K Quinn
Suzy K Quinn writes romantic
comedy / rom com books / cozy mystery and has sold over 1 million books
worldwide. She is a bestseller in the UK, US, and Germany and has plans for
total world domination with more feel-good books (bestsellers, obviously) in
the near future.
Suzy lives in Wivenhoe, Essex,
with her husband Demi and two daughters. She is a twin, an incompetent parent
of two, and now fully decaffeinated. Her twin sister, Cate Quinn, is also a
bestseller author. When she's not writing, she is reading rom coms and cozy
mysteries.
Suzy loves her readers and is
ALWAYS happy to chat on social media - she's @suzykquinn on all the socials.
You can also get a free book at her website: www.suzykquinn.com
Follow the Author:
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facebook.com/suzykquinnbooks
Tiktok: @suzykquinn
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Twitter: @suzykquinn
Threads: @suzykquinn
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