Do I need to read other books by Abby Jimenez before this one?

Reader reviews of Yours Truly

P · 2026-10-11T20:52:55.000000Z

Changing to a spoiler review since Goodreads does not always hide the spoilers even when tagged. Yeah no. I did like it initially, but it just kept going downhill. Sounds like the perfect man on paper, but really no. It just seemed sad. I felt like Brianna was super selfish because if you think about it, everything was about her and her happiness. I am trying to recall if she ever told Jacob something like "No, don't worry, you don't have to do that" when it would benefit her more than it did him. It was all take, take, take. There was a lot of angst, and at first I was ok with it, but when they just kept pining and not actually talking (them being two professional and grown adults) I just couldn't do it. This dude made ALL the sacrifices for her including changing his last name to hers, giving her his debit card pin, giving her his phone pin, then immediately changing it to hers, and even giving her brother his kidney before he even knew her that well. Which isn't a problem except he did it for her! Not the brother and not because it was from the heart, but because it was for her! Personally I feel like the whole kidney story line could have been left out and the story would have been the same. Yes, I did read the authors part at the end. It doesn't change my opinion. It just added to everything else that is going on in this story. I think he would be considered a cinnamon roll hero but in the worst way. You can be super sweet and not be a complete and utter doormat. I wish he would have had a little bit of a backbone at literally ANY point in the story. I did like the close knit family, the plants, the animals, the first half (way better than the last half), the letter exchanges!!, and the panic phrases. Everything else, no. I can't even remember the reason for the fake dating in the first place. Did it even make sense? Was it worth it? No. And ugh, the constant moving in and moving out. And lastly: WHY WAS EVERYONE PREGNANT??? WHAT WAS IN THE WATER??

This story functions as a standalone, though it exists within a shared universe where characters from previous novels, such as Part of Your World, make appearances as established couples. You can follow the plot perfectly without prior knowledge of the other books, but reading them in order allows you to see the full development of the recurring side characters.

Yours Truly

Contemporary Romance Romantic Comedy

Pages: 416
Published: 2023
Language: English

Synopsis

Dr. Briana Ortiz is having a terrible year. Her marriage has ended, her beloved brother needs a kidney transplant, and the promotion she has worked toward is likely going to Jacob Maddox, the irritatingly perfect new doctor who made a disastrous first impression. Then Jacob does something unexpected: he writes her a letter, apologizing and revealing a funny, anxious, genuinely kind person she never saw beneath the surface.

The letters keep coming, and a real friendship grows alongside a mutually convenient arrangement to fake-date their way through a family wedding and a work rivalry. But as Briana lets her guard down, Jacob offers her something so enormous and generous that she can barely accept it, and the pretend relationship starts to feel dangerously real.

Yours Truly is a companion to Abby Jimenez's Part of Your World, a warm, funny contemporary romance that pairs charming banter and old-fashioned letter-writing with heavier themes of anxiety, illness, and learning to trust again.