On the Same Page
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Last update: 01-01-2025
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Riley Beckett met Gianna Mäkinen-drop-dead gorgeous influencer, trilingual, daughter of world-famous models, yes, that Gianna Mäkinen-their first year at Boston University, and it changed everything for the both of them. After all, when you find the person who just gets you, nothing feels quite "the same" right?
And in the ten years since, Riley has come to depend on Gianna more than anyone else in her life. She knows Gianna just as well as she knows herself-maybe better, some days. She knows Gianna is incredibly sex-positive, she knows Gianna doesn't do romance or relationships, and she knows nothing could ever come between them.
This is what makes sense to her, all of this is status-quo. But when a holiday party mix-up sets in motion a domino effect of changes to these previously inalienable truths, Riley has to question everything she thought she knew about their relationship. What, exactly, does Gianna mean to her after all?
Top reviews from the United States
This is a gold standard of friends to lovers. Best friends to lovers. It was absolutely perfect. I love Riley and Gianna. I loved watching their friendship evolve. I typically am not a fan of dual timelines but Cass executed this one flawlessly. Gianna's progression as a character was beautiful.
Riley is just an amazing character all the way around. The dynamic between these two is a gorgeous example of the love that two people cultivate over years of mutual adoration, how soulmates exist, and that a beautiful friendship can be the strongest foundation of a relationship.
If Haley Cass wrote it - Read it. It's that simple. It's such a beautiful experience. Each one is unique and a stunning masterpiece of sapphic love.
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2023
This is a gold standard of friends to lovers. Best friends to lovers. It was absolutely perfect. I love Riley and Gianna. I loved watching their friendship evolve. I typically am not a fan of dual timelines but Cass executed this one flawlessly. Gianna's progression as a character was beautiful.
Riley is just an amazing character all the way around. The dynamic between these two is a gorgeous example of the love that two people cultivate over years of mutual adoration, how soulmates exist, and that a beautiful friendship can be the strongest foundation of a relationship.
If Haley Cass wrote it - Read it. It's that simple. It's such a beautiful experience. Each one is unique and a stunning masterpiece of sapphic love.
Gianna is a social media darling, with her own fashion line set to make waves. She doesn't date, but enjoys the occasional one-night-stand. Riley is a news producer, eager to bring true and reliable sources to the next generation. Riley does date, but hasn't in a very long time. Riley and Gianna have been inseparable for ten years, sharing an incredibly close, but very platonic, relationship. When a misunderstanding leads the two best friends to embark on a friends-with-benefits relationship with each other, it is the catalyst for so much more.
There is so much emotion packed into this book. From the opening pages to the final lines. Riley and Gianna share an enviable friendship. Early in the book even pre-FWB, Gianna hosts a party for her fashion launch, but is scrambling to make sure everything is perfect. When Riley asks to help, Gianna tells her that she can't ask guests to help. And Riley replies, "But I'm not your guest. I'm your Riley." And Gianna (and me) absolutely melt.
The two friends are often so tactile with each other, people often mistake them for partners. Cuddling and spooning your best friend during movie night is normal, right?
This book is tender. That word sort of encapsulates the whole thing. It is a fantastically tender story. It had plenty of very, very hot moments, too. But more than anything, it is a gentle exploration of two friends learning they may be so much more to each other than they have admitted.
I loved this book. It's one of the best I've read in a while. I hadn't read the novella that takes place before this book, and you don't particularly need to in order to understand this one. However, this was so damn good I'm off to buy the novella right now.