Title: The Shippers
Author: Katherine Center
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Genre: Romance
Pages: 336
My Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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The Shippers
JoJo Burton is in her wedding dress, ready to get married, when Cooper Watts walks into the church. Suddenly, JoJo isn’t sure she still wants to go through with the wedding and calls it off. She begins to think she might be cursed, since her relationships never seem to work out.
Weeks later, she attends her sister’s wedding on a cruise ship, determined to break the curse. Her sister believes JoJo has imprinted on her first kiss with her childhood crush and that he is “the one” for her. Together with her wingman, Cooper, JoJo tries to impress him.
Cooper moved to London four years ago. He had to leave his past behind and ended up ghosting his best friend JoJo for years. Now he’s back, trying to protect JoJo from making another mistake.
Review
I have read a couple of books by Katherine Center by now, and honestly, I don’t think there’s a single book of hers that I didn’t like. Even better, I think I’ve given all of her books 5/5 stars on Goodreads. And as you can probably tell, this was another five-star (or heart) read.
There wasn’t a single thing I disliked about this book, so I’m just going to talk about everything I loved instead. First of all, the story is great. JoJo and Cooper were best friends, and then he suddenly disappeared and ghosted her. Yes, it was a really terrible thing to do without explanation, but you eventually find out why he did it. You just keep reading to uncover the truth. And okay, it’s a romance novel, you can probably predict his reason, but it still works.
This book isn’t just about romance. There’s also a bit of action. And I’m not talking about anything between the sheets because this book has zero spice. I mean that something actually happens to JoJo, and I couldn’t stop reading.
The characters were amazing. JoJo is trying to become someone else so that her old crush will like her. And honestly, isn’t that something most of us have tried at some point? Pretending to be someone we’re not? I loved Cooper the most. He cares about JoJo so much that he puts his own feelings aside to help her and even becomes her wingman.
The tension between them was incredible. I loved it; the yearning, the build-up, and the love they have for each other were just perfection. This is exactly the kind of romance I love to read. This book made me feel everything, from the happy moments to the more painful ones when they were fighting. It made me feel alive.
It was another amazing book by Katherine Center. Yes, it was very predictable, and normally, I don’t always love that, but this time, I didn’t mind at all. I was secretly hoping all my predictions would come true, and when they did, I was just so happy and giggling.