Love Not Qualified by Maeve Hazel | A Review of This Cute Cozy Romance

Hi Readers!!!!

Welcome to Quills and Pages. This is Quills and today I am back with another Romance Review. The book is Love not Qualified and the Author Maeve Hazel has graciously provide me with an Arc in return for an honest review. So here I am talking about this cute cozy romantic book. So, let's start the review.

BLURB

When two broken hearts collide, their chemistry challenges every boundary they’ve built.

GENRE
Contemporary Romance

THEME AND TONE
Cozy

LANGUAGE AND WRITING STYLE
Easy to Read

CHARACTERS
Multilayered Characters

TROPES

☙ Online Dating

☙ Slow Burn

☙ Hidden Identity

☙ Workplace Romance

☙ Boss x Employee

☙ Childhood Trauma

MY REVIEW
The book starts out really good. It gripped my attention how Haelyn the main character was thinking about her best friend and her boyfriend. It was hilarious monologue. Haelyn is a pretty interesting character, grounded, with stable thinking, responsible (she is taking care of her mother), struggling with eating and past traumatic experiences related to her father.

Without any spoilers for you. The book is very cute cozy Rom-com. There is childhood and past traumas for both of main characters. They way they deal with this and help each other in recovering from that trauma is wholesome. My heart hurts for Haelyn and how she struggles with eating on the top of her loss of her brother, her mother and her denial on accepting these facts. She is such a beautiful who did not deserve this at such a young age.

On whole this book is a 5 star read. The romance part is really cute and swoon worthy. I totally recommend this book as a cozy summer read 📖🌴🍹🍉⛱️🥥.

MY RATING
Overall: ★★★★★ | 5 Stars

Plot: ★★★★★| 5 Stars

Romance: ★★★★★ | 5 Star

Characters:★★★★★ | 5 Stars

Pacing: ★★★★★| 5 stars

Mystery: ★★★★★| 5 star

Banter: ★★★★| 4 star

Ending: ★★★★★| 5 Stars

Spice Level: 🌶 | 1 star

Book Cover:★★★★★| 5 Stars

THE BEST PART
☙ The part where Tristan put all of her stuff in car and then put Haelyn in car too was too funny and cute

☙ The bond between Haelyn and her best friend is ❤🥹
☙ Tristan is so caring towards Haelyn

BEST QUOTES

Even though most of the time I felt like a third wheel, I knew for a fact that David was the third wheel. Whenever I was there, Merielle forgot she had a boyfriend and she did such a great job at it that I almost forgot too..

ABOUT AUTHOR
If you want to contact Maeve this is her Beacons.

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Happy Reading!!

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My message to all people who has to deal with trauma related to their family at young age.....you are very very brave and beautiful. never let your trauma stop you for making a life for yourself.

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