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The Plus One
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
13 posts | 8 read | 1 reading | 8 to read
A hilarious and heartwarming debut novel about a brilliant but socially inept robotics engineer who builds her own wedding date to her sister's wedding, and learns more about love than she ever expected. Meet Kelly. Twenty-nine, valedictorian, and a brilliant robotics engineer to boot. While her professional life is on the rise, her personal life is struggling to get off the ground. With her sister's wedding looming and her attempts to find a date becoming increasingly cringe-worthy, Kelly does the only logical thing: she builds her own boyfriend, if only to get her mom off her back about being perpetually single. Kelly planned to pass off her robotic masterpiece, Ethan, as her other half just until the wedding. But then she can't resist keeping him around even after the "I do's." Ethan is just too perfect--gorgeous, attentive, smart (he does have Google for a brain), all topped off by a mechanical heart endlessly devoted to her. When Kelly is with him, she becomes a more confident, spontaneous version of herself. Plus, for the first time, her mother is actually proud of her. But as the struggle to keep Ethan's true identity a secret threatens to detonate the career Kelly has worked so hard for, she knows she has to kiss her toy boy goodbye. There's just one problem: she's falling for him.
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CaitlinSiem
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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Mehso-so

I struggled with this one. I liked the premise, but everything just fell short for me.

The humor was too forced. In the moments I would usually find myself laughing, I wasn‘t. Actually, I don‘t think I laughed out loud once while listening to this (and I‘m an animated reader).

Another problem: there was no chemistry between Kelly/Ethan. So it felt forced. Also, he was a bland perfect robot.

I couldn‘t connect with what Kelly was going through.

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rjsthumbelina
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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1. I don't have a favorite romantic lead-it's more all about the dynamic between the 2!
2.They can be done well,but a lot of the time I feel like they are poorly developed and only there for the drama factor. Normally a no
3. Typically, I prefer fade to black. I definitely don't want a lot of specific physical details. Too weird!

Tagging my favorite little-known romance of last year-check it out!

Thanks for the fun, @ozma.of.oz !

#sundayfunday

BookmarkTavern I feel just the same way on 3! ❤️ Thanks for posting! 5y
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SilverButtonBooks
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
Panpan

This book looked so adorable but there was really nothing likeable about either character. And you know what, if you‘re going to build a robot in two days that is perfect and capable of having sex then I‘m going to want some scientific details. The whole thing felt like a friend whining about a weird dream they had.

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Victoriahoperose
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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Panpan

I just couldn‘t get into this one. I think the writing was just not for me. I didn‘t care much for the characters and wasn‘t really invested at all in the plot. It was a bit slow and trivial for me.

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Skeebies05
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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My motto as well, now that I‘m back on the dating scene. It‘s hard out here!

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RiaWritten
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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So when I'm stressed I have poor impulse control, and lately I've been trying to use the library to meet those needs instead of impulsively spending. Here's this week's collection. Including one romance novel, which I pretty much never do but it looked cute so what the heck? Only a few more days left in the semester!

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rjsthumbelina
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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Pickpick

This was a very different type of romance. The main character makes a robot to be her date to a wedding, and then falls in love with him! I really liked the characters and the quirky plot. A very fun read

Reggie Lol, can we say stacked!!! 5y
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Holliesplaining
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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Cute book cover, chipped nail polish

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mcctrish
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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Mehso-so

Despite what the blurb on the cover said, I did not fall in love with this book. The main character was awkward socially, fine, wanted to please her mom, fine, sucked at dating, fine, but it went on too long and wrapped up too fast

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mcctrish
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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Taking a break from “boy, snow, bird “ with this light read that came in on my library hold list. The dedication is to someone with my son‘s name ❤️

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heidisreads
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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Bailedbailed

Anyone else try this one yet?? Maybe an unpopular opinion, but this seemed to be trying so hard to be something like Helen Hoang, but it just wasn‘t quite there... first 75 pages.

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akaGingerK
The Plus One | Sarah Archer
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My staying home sick plans for the weekend.

akaGingerK (ARC - July release) 6y
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