Review: "Loveable" by Amber Rae

Loveable by Amber Rae
Published August 2025 via St. Martin's Essentials
★★★

From the outside, Rae's marriage was idyllic. From the inside, it was looking emptier and emptier—and then she met someone else, and within a matter of weeks her marriage was over. This is partly a story of finding that someone else (and thus the catalyst to leave a marriage that wasn't working for Rae), partly a story of what came after, and partly a look into the parts of her past that kept her stuck in patterns that weren't serving her.

I appreciate that Rae delves into the "after"—an instant connection being a starting point but not enough to carry a relationship in and of itself, not without work. This would probably be a good read for fans of Glennon Doyle. It turned out to not be a great fit for me—no shade to anyone who is into soulmates and signs, visions and symbolism, but that's not really me. I'm somewhere between skeptical and cynical (or, if I'm being kinder to myself, perhaps it's accurate to say that I'm just terminally practical), and I tend to be in memoir more for the storytelling and the vicarious experience and less for the life lessons.

Loveable makes for a very quick read (I read the bulk of it on a couple of mid-length train rides and still had time to finish two other books), and I expect it'll find an enthusiastic audience. I didn't look up Rae's other books before picking this one up, and in retrospect I probably should have; if her previous books look like up your alley, this might also be a better fit for you than it was for me.

Thanks to the author and publisher for providing a review copy through NetGalley.