Review: It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



I have mixed feels about this book but overall I really liked it. This is a typical romance novel in many ways but this also took me by surprise. The back story of the main protagonist is much darker than I had expected and it colored the entire storyline. It was very heavy in certain spots and I would never have expected that from a genre that typically sprouts mindless books about sexathons. On that same note, another unexpected facet of the book was it's focus on football. I mean, sure, I read the synopsis and I knew it had something to do with football but I figured the writer would throw in "quarterback" and "touchdown" a few times and call it a day. Since the main character starts off knowing nothing about the game, the reader ends up getting an education along with her. I was quite impressed with several sections of the book. She actually kept my attention throughout several multi-paged, play-by-play descriptions of what was going on. It probably didn't hurt either that I read this a week before football season starts and it couldn't have been better timing :)



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