Maybe Margot was right. Maybe her perfect person was out there, but one thing was certain.
It wasn’t Darcy.

Written in the Stars

After a disastrous blind date, Darcy Lowell is desperate to stop her well-meaning brother from playing matchmaker ever again. Love—and the inevitable heartbreak—is the last thing she wants. So she fibs and says her latest set up was a success. Darcy doesn’t expect her lie to bite her in the ass.

Elle Jones, one of the astrologers behind the popular Twitter account Oh My Stars, dreams of finding her soul mate. But she knows it is most assuredly not Darcy… a no-nonsense stick-in-the-mud, who is way too analytical, punctual, and skeptical for someone as free-spirited as Elle. When Darcy’s brother—and Elle’s new business partner—expresses how happy he is that they hit it off, Elle is baffled. Was Darcy on the same date? Because… awkward.

Darcy begs Elle to play along and she agrees to pretend they’re dating. But with a few conditions: Darcy must help Elle navigate her own overbearing family during the holidays and their arrangement expires on New Year’s Eve. The last thing they expect is to develop real feelings during a faux relationship. But maybe opposites can attract when true love is written in the stars?

Written in the Stars has been one of my most hyped books for a long time, and it did not disappoint.

Elle and Darcy are complete opposites. Elle is free-spirited and believes in love and astrology, whereas Darcy is analytical, practical, and thoroughly skeptical. So when Darcy’s younger brother Brendan sets them up on a blind date that ends in disaster, Elle is confused about why he thought they would be a good match in the first place. And she is especially confused when Brendan tells her how happy he is that she and Darcy hit it off.

Elle learns that Darcy just wanted Brendan to stop playing matchmaker, so she lied. Darcy didn’t expect it to come back to haunt her so soon, but it has, so she comes up with a plan: she and Elle will fake date through the holidays to get their families off their backs. And because they’re complete opposites, there’s no risk of heartbreak, right?

Written in the Stars was the soft sapphic romance I needed. From Elle and Darcy’s meet-ugly all the way to the end, the way Bellefleur weaved humor and heart together gripped me, and I didn’t want to put the book down. I loved the references to pop culture, from Brendan’s obsession with nerdy things and rom-coms to Margot and Darcy writing fanfiction (for Harry Potter and soap operas, respectively). And as a witch and a person who fills out the birth charts of every original character I create, I loved the astrology talk.

While Elle and Darcy were the focal points of the story, and I loved how they took care of and stood up for each other, what stole the show for me was the relationships between them and the side characters. Margo and Elle’s friendship was so strong, and Annie and Darcy’s friendship reminded me so much of some of my own friendships with my best friends. I loved the sibling dynamic between Brendan and Darcy, as well. They not only love each other but seem to genuinely like each other, which was completely heartwarming.

Overall, Written in the stars made me smile and feel warm and fuzzy inside from beginning to end, and I can’t wait to read the next books in the series.