Book Club Questions for All I Want Is You by Falon Ballard

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Book club questions for All I Want Is You by Falon Ballard takes a closer look at this compelling second-chance romance set during the holiday season. For more context about the book, check out my spoiler-free review here.

All I Want Is You was such a fun read, and I’m really glad I picked it up this holiday season. It really has everything you could want: romance, holiday vibes, plenty of humor. It’s also on the shorter side (about 256 pages) so an easy one to fly through.

Let me know your thoughts about the book in the comments section below!

The Synopsis

All Jessica has ever wanted is her own happily ever after. But until that happens, she spends her days as a small-time romance writer, penning satisfying Happily Ever Afters to soothe the heartache left by her ex-boyfriend Nick—also a romance writer and now her biggest rival—who has found success writing love stories without happy endings. It’s what he’s good at, after all . . .

So when their professional obligations bring them to a remote inn a few days before Christmas, they’re a little more than peeved, especially when they get trapped sharing a room in a snowstorm. But what’s more fitting for two romantic writers in a slump? Realizing the friction between them might be the only cure for their writer’s block, they decide to turn their frustration into fiction . . . and the pages start flying. But will Jess’s heart soar, too? Nick is the last guy on earth she should love . . . but what if he is really all she wants for Christmas?

Book Club Questions for All I Want Is You

1. Both Jessica and Nick are romance writers. Let’s first talk about what drew them to the genre.
2. Why did Nick decide to write romance novels without the happy endings? Why do you think his books became huge bestsellers?
3. Jessica is also a published author, but she hasn’t experienced the success like Nick has. What were your overall thoughts about the insight into the romance author career?
4. Why was it important for us to read the perspectives of both Jessica and Nick?
5. Jessica is blindsided when she is asked to present an award to Nick, her ex-boyfriend who broke her heart years ago. Why did Jessica eventually agree to present it? What would you have done if you were Jessica?
6. Sparks but also anger emerge when Jessica and Nick first reunite after so many years apart. When did they both start to realize feelings were still there?
7. There’s quite a few romance tropes covered: second-chance romance, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, etc. Do you have a favorite romance trope?
8. We get a look at Jessica and Nick’s current relationship progression, but also the past when they were happy together. What did those past scenes tell us their relationship?
9. Eventually, Nick reveals why he broke up with Jessica: it was a combination of not wanting to damage her career, but also selfish reasons of being an “attainable” male romance writer. What were your thoughts about his reasoning? Do you feel it made sense or were you left with more questions?
10. Jessica and Nick do get back together, and even engaged in the end. They also co-write a bestselling novel. Do you see Jessica and Nick in it for the long haul? What happens next for them?
11. Did you enjoy the holiday vibes and scenes?
12. Would you cast for the main roles in a TV or film version of this book?

Additional Recommendations

Hope you enjoyed book club questions for All I Want Is You! Here are some more recommendations along with links to book club questions.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.

The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic . . . and then her bus drives away.

Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend, Sarah, giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.

What follows for Laurie, Sarah, and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming, and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

Happy reading and happy holidays!