Welp- I'm just speechless with how predictable and boring this book turned out in the end Welp- I'm just speechless with how predictable and boring this book turned out in the end ...more
oh. my. gosh. River fucking Peña. Dr. River Peña with thick dark hair, olive skin, 6ft'4in tall, completed with a pair of whiskey brown eyes. holy fucoh. my. gosh. River fucking Peña. Dr. River Peña with thick dark hair, olive skin, 6ft'4in tall, completed with a pair of whiskey brown eyes. holy fucking shit.
I dived right into this book with small expectations. I was about to pick up In A Holidaze but I found that it didn't really intrigue me so I picked this one, though I was in between choosing this book and Love And Other Words. But boy, I didn't regret that I pick this up!! It is so good and cute and fluffy and pleasant.
this book is like a very delicious chocolate that you always eat when you're low on sugar or when you're just in a bad mood. it feels exactly like that! to say that this book is sweet is an understatement because throughout the read it succeeds in turning me into a gooey and melting puddle.
this romance is just so different from all the books that I've ever read. first thing first, the male mc. my gosh- don't even get me started, River fucking Peña is just a beautiful and charming well-written character. this man is a very grumpy and brooding-looking man, I thought that maybe he really was going to be another very grumpy man and this will be just another grumpy x sunshine romance, then he went sike!--or more like Christina Lauren went sike on me--. this man is very far from grumpy, he's just restrained and cautious with someone he doesn't know, but then charmingly turns into a very sweet, romantic, and loving man to his lover. now, this? this is something that I didn't know I needed from a male mc. sure, grumpy man has their own magic to seduce you but this kind of man hits different ...more
I still have this feeling that EmHen's book is like that high intelligence joke that I'm too stupid to understand, and I caYeah, no. This was not it.
I still have this feeling that EmHen's book is like that high intelligence joke that I'm too stupid to understand, and I cannot for the life of me figure out why the fuck I'm feeling this- (I'm just going straight to the review) it's in the way how I think her writing was just unnecessarily intelligent and use intelligent words, also how it resulted in how hard it is to digest for my slow brain, and it's just so fucking difficult for me to really focus in the paragraphs. I guess it's my own problem? Lol but I truly couldn't enjoy the writing and I didn't enjoy this freely.
The characters were okay but it was just it. The okay characters and none of them were mesmerizing in my eyes, they didn't move a thing inside of me too. It was just bland and meh, it almost feel like same with Nora from Book Lovers but whatever if you don't agree with me on this.
The plot was amazing and it has a lot of potential- but it ended in a very unsatisfying way. Not sure why, I supposed I might have currently craving for a huge drama in the middle or something but this book didn't deserve it. But I want to admit that some moments were beautiful and funny in the book but it wasn't often- like I said I couldn't enjoy this maximally because of the writing and it really impacted my views for the whole book. Also the ending was just... so hastily wrapped up and it felt like it rushed the whole thing, hence the unsatisfying for me. I genuinely thought we're going to see the wedding scene more cause wasn't it main event of the trip? I thought the climax was going to be in that very moment but it wasn’t- oh well. I also think this book could end in 30 chapters too, cause there were some chapters that were basically a stretch out and basically a filler.
“I love you, but I want to love you enough that I never choose alcohol over you. Not even for a moment. I want to be someone you deserve. Who helps“I love you, but I want to love you enough that I never choose alcohol over you. Not even for a moment. I want to be someone you deserve. Who helps you rather than enables you, and I can’t begin to do that until I get help for myself.”
Edit: changing this to 4 stars bcs of lilo and lulu ...more
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