Better Than the Movies Book Reviews

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It was good, but... It was a good read but the ending felt rushed and it would’ve been nicer to get a longer epilogue. It find of felt a little too wattpad for me.

yes to everything written. OMG IT WAS SO GOOD NO WAYY

page turner. my friend recommended this book and i was like yah i’ve got a list i’ll get there but it popped up so i decided to read it… two and a half days later (i had school and extra curriculars) i LOVED this book so much and i wish i could read it for the first time again and again and again!!!!

MY favorite book🫶🏻🫶🏻. AMAZINGG it’s such a cute book. Def recommend🫶🏻

3.5 stars. Cute book with a fun plot. An easy and quick read.

Amazing book!!!. loved the writing! i absolutely adored Wes and Liz! they both have my heart. i loved being able to live with little liz! and learn exactly everything she was learning. this book has to be one of my favorites!! 🤍

AMAZING.. This will be going at the top of my list for my favorite reads. Will definitely be reading this multiple more times.

omg i read it in one day. i absolutely adored this book! it was so cute and had the cutest plot. i am in love with sweet libby and wessy<3 i am someone who has a hard time getting into books and will give up on reading if i don’t get reeled in, and this book DID. IT. FOR. ME. 10 pages in! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT

So good. Beautiful story!

AMAZING my favorites book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Omg this is my favorite book I read it in like 2 weeks I definitely recommend it

1000000000/5. Absolutely loved this book….So good.

enemies to lovers trope. i love reading romance books. and this book tops it. i didn’t even realize that i was also my done with this book until the last page. i cried i smiled i felt butterflies in my stomach just reading this book. liz and wes what can i say i love this book so much. i felt like i was liz. i sooo recommend whoever loves reading romance books to read this one. it’s a enemies to lovers trope. it’s about a girl named liz and wes the boy next door. their neighbors that dislike each other. but eventually their hate or dislike turns into more. this book would have you wanting more. i enjoyed it i give it 5 stars. the characters were amazing the plot of the story was amazing. everything was amazing. and if there’s a second book go read it because that’s what i am about to do!

ADORABLE. Had me grinning like a fool ☺️❗️

woah.. FREAKING MASTERPIECE IM IN AWE JJS,D,AKWMXNAJWIIDKAKS

lovestory. beautiful

I loved this book!. I love the character dynamic, had some points in this book I forgot I was reading

.. Nice rom-com 4.5 Loved their love story didn’t love the ending.

Well written love story. It is obvious that the writer has a great love and appreciation for classic rom-coms as she seamlessly weaves them into this delightful love story. You won’t regret picking up this well written book that is bound to make your heart flutter.

Chefs kiss. I loved this book when I finished I couldn’t stop thinking about it and reread it again. If you like romance then this is for you I hope you enjoy 😊

It is, in fact, better than the movies. As a 17 year old who is positively obsessed with fiction in general, romance novel, regardless of their varying levels of sexuality, always get me giddy and sleepless. Reading this book with Strep Throat felt like the moment when Advil kicks in after a raging headache, and so, naturally, I didn’t stop reading it until it was over. I have to say that the writing style is nothing but enjoyable in a 1st person fashion that got me smiling like a psychopath every time Wes Bennett made an appearance. Every sentence made me yearn for more and more of Liz and Wes’s interactions, and tied it all together with an insanely satisfying ending and epilogue. I must say that sometimes I felt that some of the tropes were almost too Cliché, but the book seemed to embrace the cringier moments and followed through with consistent characterization. I also found that I really related to Liz’s fear with nearing the end of high school and Joselyn’s sadness that she’d gone through so much of it without her best friend by her side. I’m writing this as of my senior year in high school, and sadly that’s how I’m feeling at the moment, so if anything, this book has inspired me to try to make the most of this year, and enjoy the company of my childhood friends while it lasts. I appreciate this book in its entirety for its message and the lovely character arcs. Characterization: 1 Plot: 1 Theme/Message: 1 Cliché: 0 Overall Enjoyability: 1

READ IT ‼️. ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS BOOK PERFECT! It gave me so many butterflies and giggles and I was grinning the whole time knowing that they were meant for each other 😌 everything I could ask for in a book !! 💗

sooo good so taylor swift coded so romcom. this book is so romcom i love it no notes 😭

So amazing!!!. THIS BOOK WAS SOOO SOO SOO GOOD!!! I have not read this good of a book that had me laughing, smiling, crying, and screaming. It was such a quick read and I loved every minute!!!

bttm review. it was perfect i loved it so much. for someone who LOVES rom coms and LOVES cheesy awesome love this was perfect. i will definitely reread !

Hmmm. It was honestly a great book but it was predictable.

I LOVE. I really loved this book! I couldn’t stop reading. Just wish there was maybe more to the relationship.

FAVORITE BOOK EVER. I LOVE THIS BOOK SM!!! Wes bennett is literally the cutest character ever and he literally just makes this whole book!!

Great book. This is great if you love rom coms

So cute!!. Such an easy predictable read!

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Captivating Lightness: A Book You Won’t Want to Put Down. I have the hard copy of this book It’s a delightful and breezy read, perfect for an easy escape.

it’s so good that... i cried. 🤎

AMAZING MUST READ. THIS BOOK IS THE DEFINITION OF A ROMCOM if you love romcoms this is the book for you!! young adult with no spice but still an amazing read! lynn painters writing is the best 🩷🩷

A Pretty Basic YA romcom. Thank you NetGalley for providing me an e-arc for review! "Come on, Liz - at least be honest with yourself. You dress like her, you watch all the shows she watched, and you do everything in your power to behave as if she's writing the screenplay of your life and you're her character." Better Than the Movies is a cute-as-a-button YA novel that follows Liz as she tries to win the heart of her childhood crush ~who just moved back to town~ with the help of her childhood enemy, Wes. This book is cute, y'all. It gave my the butterflies. It made me tear up. It made me nostalgic for a time in my life that I didn't even really enjoy when living through it, and yet, it made me hopeful that I could have had a cute rom-com like high school experience in another life. That said, if I'm being honest, Better Than the Movies felt like a book I've read before. It follows the same plot and clichés as many YA novels that came before it. Was it still an enjoyable read? Yes. But it didn't add anything new or unexpected to the genre. Otherwise, I really have to remember what it was like to be a teenager, because Liz's character could be... very frustrating. Look, I understand teen books need conflict too. I get it. Was I woefully uncommunicative and prone to petty misunderstandings and fights when I was that age? I mean, probably. And yet I still felt iffy about some of the books main conflicts and character choices. The miscommunications felt weak and her lying seemed to be added just for the sake of some c-plot conflict with her best friend. And Wes. Of course, as to be expected, he's as charming, witty, and secretly-pining as YA love interests come, though I'm not sure how much I enjoyed the subtle "oh-he's-teasing-you-cause-he-likes-you" narrative we got from their childhood together (that Liz obviously doesn't pick up on). And much as I enjoyed him as a character (I'm a sucker for characters that pine), he felt wholly unremarkable. If you'd hidden his name, I could have thought he was Jackson from Kasie West's Moment of Truth, Asher from Jessica Pennington's Meet Me at Midnight, or Finn from Kate Brian's Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys. I don't want to get too specific, as obviously this book isn't out yet and people have the right to be surprised, but I will say that the ending, for me, was pretty underwhelming. I wanted speaker-above-the-head confessions! Crying in the rain! Grand gestures! There were a few writing things that Painter included that felt a bit try-hard. I'm of the belief that current gen-z slang changes so quickly that it's futile to try and include in. What's in when you're writing will almost certainly not be when the book is published. In Better Than the Movie's case, Painter had Liz say "I am shook" (which, on top of just being a cringe slang in general, just doesn't feel in keeping with her character), and also has Helena, Liz's step-mom, say "bet". It was off-putting. For a book with such a focus on rom-com movies, I would have actually liked to see more rom-com tropes. I thought, in Liz's attempt to woo Michael, her and Wes would have teamed up to manufacture a few cliché moments. I actually thought that would be the entire premise of the book! Overall, this fluffy book will definitely give you the warm-and-fuzzies. It's pretty much everything you can expect from a YA romance set in high school, so as long as you go in with those expectations, you should have no problem flying through this like me!