Nothing Like the Movies

Lynn Painter, you are so amazing.

Get me a man on his knees

lynn painter does it again!! i ate this one up. i loved better than the movies so much and was anticipating this release for awhile. nothing like the movies takes place with liz and wes as college students and that setting was SO fun. just getting to see liz grow and wes become the young man that he is!

this book wasn’t as fluffy, but it was surely real and fun. a little angsty overall but i enjoyed following along liz and wes finding their way back to each other. fun vibes and well written!

Liz Bennett 🥹

The characters felt so real. We got to real them real with real life trauma and problems but that ending love you like no one else you’re the only one for me ever speech. Wow

Is it just me or the author is rushing to end this book?

Elizebeth fucking Bennett

I LOVE LIZ AND WES FOR EVER!!!!

THEY ARE THE BLUEPRINT FOR YA ROMANCE

Loved it as much as the first one😍

one of the few, if not the only, english romance book that i did not cringe over.

i was like, "no, i can't read this. ignorance is bliss" and then proceed on reading it. "bttm doesn't need a sequel." OH YES IT DOES.

for starters, i HATE second chances trope because idw them to break up. like why do they have to? so i was hesitant at first if i should read nltm or not, but i still did lol.

you definitely need to read bttm first to get a clear gasp of everything, but i have to say (i hate to say this) that i guess, i liked nltm more than the first book.

i love the college life, the character development, the angst, the grief—everything for that matter. i was so SCARED of starting this novel, i was so wrong for that tbh. i did not cry about their break-up, i did not cry because they have fallen apart, but i did spend consecutive nights crying my heart out of how painful it is to me to read the story of wes and liz. their experiences had me sobbing so hard :'(( i can't get mad or annoyed at their decisions because ik it hurts so bad. ik that if i were in their shoes, i'd probably do the same thing or i'd probably resort to something worse.

nltm had me spiraling w all my emotions scattered around the place. it hurts so bad that i love it; i love it because it hurts so bad.

the wes and liz that i loved during bttm is still there. idc what anyone says, i felt like this sequel is a need. if you think you're going to cry because they broke up, think again. [ and read it, so you'll know ]

i want the hardcopy so bad, and i'll probably get one soon. until then, i'll probably miss them both so much.

this is also getting me to watch more romcoms LOL, and i will. : pp

I’m going to put this book away and pretend it doesn’t exist

amazing, my only kinda like “complaint” about it was the fact that we weren’t clued much in on Liz’s new found hate for romanticism because like yeah after that break up i totally get it but the reason she was like that was because of her mother, like i wish we went into that since it was such an integral part of better than the movies. Like yeah she’s unromantic now but how does that and not being able to not talk to her mom’s grave affect her? how does she keep that part of her mom with her??? like i wish that was elaborated on during her points even if it isn’t necessarily a book about her.

I absolutely loved the first book in this series, so this felt somewhat like a letdown.
There was almost zero chemistry between the characters, and the banter that I loved was almost not there. It was mostly her avoiding him and then being annoyed by him when they'd talk or getting away from him quickly after chatting.
I like the ending, but the majority of the book dragged on. The nostalgia and leftover love that I had for these characters kept me going.

No words; so incredibly beautiful. I love love.

idc what anyone else says, this book was GREAT. i will say liz was pissing me off majority of the book bc she was acting like a scorned woman while wes just wanted a smooch. i love these characters so much i hold them very near and dear to my heart so having a whole book about them again felt like home 🫶🏼

Idc what people say this book was great. Unnecessary maybe but never the less it was still good.

it was absolutely amazing wow

Not every book needs a sequel