**spoiler alert** I mean can u imagine going to a photography job and then being told no actually you don’t have the job yet, you now have to compete **spoiler alert** I mean can u imagine going to a photography job and then being told no actually you don’t have the job yet, you now have to compete with a crusty dude, and now your photos were so good but your friend actually showed us your personal pinup photos invading your privacy in the process and we’re going to pressure you to be the model instead but don’t worry you’ll still have creative control but also we are going to pay the male photographer—who took your job and will get the credit—MORE money to spy on you bc you’re actually not going to be the art director we’re just going to make you think you are. Oh and were also paying for him to flirt with you. And now you get to flash your nipples and ass to everyone while the man is fully clothed with YOUR job! Wait I forgot that the guy is okay with all of this bc he’s supporting his wastrel of a brother and can’t say no to giving him money. Then when he’s again offered the art director credit and another pay increase (50% this time) he “can’t refuse” and also “does deserve it bc he gave her ideas and talked her down from the ledge a few times.” He ultimately had her given the director credit in the catalog but he kept all the money he received for HER ideas. I’m so angry.
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The thought that the man gets to stay fully clothed and she has to be nearly naked??? It’s fine if she WANTED that but she literally wanted to be the photographer. How is this okay???
From what I gathered from the writing (a lot of times it’s not clear) he changed her name credit in the catalog that was set out at the launch party. No word on if it’s legally official. The book made it seem since it’s just the catalog, he still gets to keep the money he was given for her ideas. She gets a little extra bc the campaign exceeded preorders but??? Is her credit just for show???
"I called Rebecca two days ago, pretty much as these catalogs were being printed. She probably got in trouble, but she went ahead and made the change. And you should see a completion bonus from LL any day now. Something about exceeding a preorder goal. That's what it'll say.”
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Then! He breaks up with her bc he finally recognizes his privilege and easy time getting photography gigs so he doesn’t actually want to do the work of having her as his girlfriend????
Then at the end he gets her time with all of these execs to companies for more photography gigs. Nice? No! Bc he’s trying to make up for stealing everything from her. AND the inherent fact that he already has all of those connections while she doesn’t??? Absolutely fucked up.
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Also the entire lingerie concept is just so weird I can’t picture any of it. I love the size inclusivity but that’s about as much as I understood from it. Also who knew listening to someone describe taking photos is absolutely so fucking boring.
Also Reid totally fucked the marketing manager for the campaign in the past so she was quite literally rooting for him to get the promotion and more money. He told her no but ultimately didn’t refuse very very very many times. All because he wanted to have money to give to his brother. He didn’t reveal this to Cassie until way tooohooo late.
Update: a few days removed and I literally forgot this entire book so I was very mad for a wee bit and now I feel nothin✨The sex? Yes. The Rest? No.✨
Update: a few days removed and I literally forgot this entire book so I was very mad for a wee bit and now I feel nothing so I did round up to three because I should remember a two star read for all the wrong reasons lol. Still didn’t like the book, but without my review, I couldn’t tell ya why.
Textually this is probably three stars but for overall “how did this make me feel vibes” it’s a “number three—✌️—my lord.” Jesus. Just the reason for her wedding that crusty sack of shit viscount at the beginning was enough to ruin the book, but what’s revealed at the end just really obliterated anything—the sex—that I had left to like.
I just didn’t enjoy the end and what was revealed. You knew it was already a shitty situation but I just hate villains successfully villaining. The viscount was clearly an ass sandwich but knowing that he won—like I know he died but he died knowing he won—just makes me unhappy and I hate it. Then you found out even more layers to the saucy little situation and !!!!!!!! No one really paid for their sins and I simply do not abide.
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Their whole “thing” stemmed from a misunderstanding 8 years ago when she overheard him saying something that was obviously misconstrued. She didn’t ask him why he said those things and just flung herself at a cruel man she knew was revolting and that she shouldn’t marry. Obviously there’s more to that particular story but it was just an unbecoming introduction to the book and it never really recovered my good graces.
A large part of my problem stemmed from the pacing. By 60% I really didn’t know how I got there or what meaningful had happened. So much of the first part was focused on their annoying backstory that just wasn’t interesting or that becoming on either end. Maybe this is a second chance trope pitfall that was very exacerbated here… From the start I just didn’t really like the motivations of either character and while the sex gave a valiant effort, my good opinion once lost was lost forever.
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As for the sex, I really do like how the author has explored it over the course of the three books. She’s gotten progressively steamier and I really appreciate it. She writes sex well and it’s hot as shit. The main favs were the face-sitting, the carriage scene, and the bathtub scene.
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The threat on her life was there at the beginning and then the end but the book lost track of that plot line for the entire middle. And I didn’t like either MC enough for them to carry the plot in that space. Then by the end, I just didn’t care? There was not motivation for me to really care about the threats we barely spent any time on.
I also really dislike bodyguard tropes when 1. the guarded doesn’t take the threats seriously and endangers people and is reckless and 2. when the bodyguard is flat out bad at bodyguarding because he’s too horny or ashamed because someone made him feel bad at his job. It may have taken a while to get to #2 but we sure did get both scenarios here.
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Overall, the second half had more charm—romance wise—and I could’ve seen myself getting swept away if I hadn’t already had my opinion soured by the blah first half. By that point I just kinda wanted to finish the book and be done with it. As it was, I wasn’t invested in the cuteness and I wasn’t invested in them. Then the ending happened and anything close to butterflies I was feeling turned to raging little hornets.
If you’re really into bodyguard tropes, maybe throw on the audiobook while you’re doing another task. It’s not a bad, bad book—it was well written and the bones of something compelling were there—but it wasn’t captivating either and didn’t make me feel all light and bubbly or emo and romantic. Unfortunately for me I read this one physically and had to take it all in and a lot of it angered me.
I’m so fricken confused at what this book was trying to accomplish. She had this sterling reputation and they got married to help ✨To Gag and to GTFO✨
I’m so fricken confused at what this book was trying to accomplish. She had this sterling reputation and they got married to help save his tarnished reputation. The plot sounds unfuckupable right? Pretty simple? Wrong. He didn’t seem to realize that to save his reputation she would actually have to be out in society with him and at his debauched theater. He kept her high on a pristine pedestal so her shiny reputation wouldn’t be dimmed and so her delicate sensibilities wouldn’t be most aggrieved. He was a little BITCH about it.
The running theme was that Julian didn’t treat her like a child and she loved that about him. I call [read: screech] BULLSHIT. That is simply not correct. Treating her like a child is all he did. He was like wow you’re young and innocent but you want to fuck me so you’re NOT a child wow. And then proceeded to not listen to her and treat her like she had no mind of her own. He was condescending and fucking confusing.
As for Emily, she was supposed to grow a backbone somewhere along the way. That was her goal. So imagine my displeasure when the moment it decided to make an appearance was when Julian DARED defend her in front of her heinous parents. She was like WHOA WHOA WAHOO buddy they’re my PARENTS I could NEVER just cut them off and tell them to Argo fuck themselves. They’re horrible to me and you paid off all of their debts and they’re not even grateful and they were going to marry me off to a leech but WOW HOW DARE YOU defend ME to them. Remember, I don’t even LIKE Julian. She lost all my respect.
They fucked once and a half with the door open a CRACK so absolutely not, there was no character development in the bedroom either. It had details but they climaxed together off page and that constitutes closed door in my book. The sex scene felt like a box to check by the author. It was mind numbingly boring. I just simply don’t understand the mothereffingpoint of this book. It was painfully slow at 2.0x speed. Dull doesn’t even begin to describe my experience. The Sex also happened around 50% after there couldn’t have been one thing left for me to care about.
My favorite however was that Emily kept delaying their consummation because of a stray cat that needed to sleep with her at night. It was supposed to be quirky but I gagged. She also decided to stand up to her mother not to defend herself or Julian, but because she was angry the twat didn’t like the cat. I mean go her I guess but also this was supposed to be a romance not an ASPCA commercial. It was supposed to be cheeky but it just missed the point completely.
These characters were so static. They changed not a bit from start to finish. It took absolutely way too long for any semblance of gumption to French kiss Emily and common sense to knock the fuck out of Julian. She was boring and he was an asshole. They ended the book as one very boring asshole. I don’t think they even knew each other by the end of the book, let alone know enough to love each other. The plot needed about five Monsters to pick up the fuckin pace. The tension needed a stiff dose of Viagra. The couple needed a character-building spring break in Cabo.
Overall, the author has said that this book was incredibly hard to write. It’s painfully obvious. This book was also incredibly hard to read. The first half of the book was worthy of about 3.5⭐️a but the second half tanked the motherfuckin ship. I have to laugh the last sentence was closing you out of a desk scene I’m crying lmaooooo. I’m considering the first book a one-off because these last two were unreal. I’ll never go back and reread book one because god I need something good to have come out of this series and I dare not tempt fate with a second pass.
Fusty is the word of the day when trying to sum up this book. Go read The Lady Gets Lucky by Joanna Shupe instead.
If you don’t like books with flashbacks that culminate to nothing. Don’t read it. If you don’t like books with random ✨Funny you should ask I hate it✨
If you don’t like books with flashbacks that culminate to nothing. Don’t read it. If you don’t like books with random “articles” and “interviews” thrown in between the actual plot. Don’t read it. If you don’t like books about “great writers” who when you read their “great writing” you’re like um no? Don’t read it.
Now that I know this book was heavily *inspired* off of a GQ article (about Chris Evans) that the author fails to mention in her acknowledgements, I hate it all even more. I dislike the article because I again found it weird and unethical and weird and I don’t like knowing this shit really happened. Please don’t feel up the people you’re interviewing. And in the book she kept referencing how he was probably too drunk but she still wanted to get that sound bite.
I checked my arc against a finished copy and the author still didn’t mention Edith Zimmerman or that GQ article anywhere in the book/acknowledgments. The rest of my review is also checked against a finished library copy. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt but alas.
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Their relationship presented in the article felt unethical and the writing style was a mix of flashbacks, present, and useless “articles” and “interviews” and “blog posts” thrown in to break up the plot for no reason. I really don’t like when those things pop up in books. I stuck with them at the beginning because I was still interested in the “plot,” but then I realized nothing they revealed was actually useful to the overall story and I skimmed the rest. I mean the plot didn’t reveal anything either, let alone the flashbacks. Why do flashbacks get incorporated when the big “fight” scene in the past is just. so. boring?
I did like the beginning (until the faked dog death and then I was one button press away from full on meltdown) and I was interested to see what really happened in the past. But the more I went along, I felt like her article was unprofessional and awkward and made me feel weird. She kept talking about all of these stereotypes, when her article did its best to perpetuate them? And she was so sad and angry that she had friends with private jets because she didn’t know if her career was “earned” or not.
Plot twist it was not because what else did she have to write about? I can’t imagine she had three collections of essays published. Essays on WHAT. She proves none of her skills to me, which is another tough sell in books: writers, songwriters, etc always just seem so forced and awkward in books and the secondhand embarrassment is cruel to me. She was so whiny about her writing especially when she thought he didn’t like it.
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I suppose the dude was more decent, but I still didn’t like him. He sounded nice in theory but the execution was lacking. The whole marriage thing and friends with benefits thing was just not what I wanted to see from him and it made him Not Hot. He was kind of a dick but so was she so they belong together in their phallus palace I suppose. We also finished this book with them knowing each other for a collective six days in ten years. I didn’t buy that.
This book was based on a much shorter, insubstantial in its own right article and it shows. Maybe the article really did happen like the journalist said, but that didn’t make this book any more logical. And it doesn’t have to be but it just had a weird feeling. I was more stressed out at her being invited to after parties and passing out and getting drunk.
I felt zero chemistry between the characters by the end and I disliked both of our MCs which is impressive. She’s angry that people got the wrong impression from an article she intentionally wrote to give the wrong impression and I just………
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On that ……….. note, there’s a lot of stilted speech (especially during the sex scene) where they’re like “can…I…..please…….Alaska…….ninety…..seven…..” and she’s like I don’t know what he means but okay and I’m like no not okay I don’t know what’s going on???? After this book I ban ellipses. Funny…you…should…ask…I…am…in…pain…
✨ ”It’s not a problem,” he says. “With you, I…” / “You…?” ✨ “I just…these fucking…goddamn buttons,” ✨ “There…Please…Gabe…Please…” ✨ "Don't," he chokes out, stilling my hand. "I...you…can't..." ✨ "Fuck," he groans. "Can I...can we…..please..?” ✨ “Gabe…” / "Don't...stop...Please..don't..." ✨ "Yes..." My head goes back. "I need...yes..." ✨ "Fuck, I'm..."
^Those all happened in the five page sex scene. It took 90% for:
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I’m also very confused because the author recently wrote an article about the importance of sex scenes in romance and that leaves me even more confused…this sex scene was an afterthought at 90%…and…lukewarm…at best... It’s nice to know the author loves sex scenes, but where is this proof in this pudding?
The pining was pretty good but the payoff was stale. Vague is en vogue here. The words “orgasm,” “climax,” “peak,” “come” were never used during the sex scene. “Got off” and “coming” were each used like twice at various points. No “cock” was ever mentioned. I think “length” (mentioned once at 91%) is as good as it got. There’s like nothing regarding her body. Wait! We got: “Hands. Hips. Lips.” Oo baby, oo baby. ...more
This man…murdered my libido. I deserve a fucking trophy for *finishing* this book because as I just said, I don✨Catch me ADDING cobwebs to my vagina.✨
This man…murdered my libido. I deserve a fucking trophy for *finishing* this book because as I just said, I don’t have that ability anymore. I can’t possibly have had a worse experience. I will say, the sexual tension between me and DNFing this book was hot as shit...
But I fucked around and found out so you don’t have to. I was the shrew we met along the way and have no problem taking one for the team and writing a very angry, very negative review. This book turned ME into the romance hero we deserved. I was clenching my jaw and grunting and being generally moody during this entire experience.
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My thoughts summed up if you want to tap out of the rest of my obviously unhinged review: This is actually the worst book I've read in a long time. Prem is a monster of a character and I cannot believe Kareena had to fall in love with him. I feel…
…so bad for her.
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Now for the brave fools, giddy up because we ride at dawn.
Two things that made hating this book worse: I really liked Kareena and there was really dirty sexy sex. I hate that this book wasted those two things! But! When a hero is as fucked up as Prem, I don’t want to see him end up with Kareena, nor do I want to witness him having orgasms. No happy ending(s) for you motherfucker.
Kareena’s family was trash to her for the entire book which was obviously WONDERFUL for the vibes of this book. She got shit on left and right and I am TIRED. I did adore how she read Prem to filth on television and attacked him with Pedialyte…but she took him back way too quickly (in my opinion taking him back at ALL is too quickly).
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Prem is the type of dude to make anonymous thirst trap videos for tiktok where he’s riding a chair in broad daylight next to a pile of dirty laundry and a remote without the battery cover…but then hates on tiktok in the group chat. He knows he’s hot as shit, and he’s very annoying about it. He doesn’t believe in love because of course he doesn’t. He calls Kareena a single old woman with expectations (love) too high but still wants to fuck her and her sweater vest collection because of course he does.
Prem invited Kareena's sister on his talk show under false pretenses. They were not going to be discussing the benefits of love, no. They were actually going to be using Bindu's engagement as a case study to prove that love doesn't exist and how she is just with her fiance out of convenience. Real stand up guy. I disliked Bindu greatly but no one can top Prem. He’s consistently like “what did I do wrong,” “why isn’t Rina happy with me,” “what happened?” and I just need to scream YOU THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED you-oO-OO
But my favorite thing, my FAVORITE thing, is that this man calls his penis, CHARLIE. And no it is never explained! And no it is never revealed to Kareena. She got dickfished! I’ve attached some LOVELY quotes at the end of the review for your enlightenment. I, for one, need an exorcism.
I could’ve handled The Charlie if I’d have liked Prem…which was impossible for me to do. My one star review is for me fundamentally despising Prem and his fundamental fuckboyness that never improved. Charlie is just a bonus. A garnish if you will. The author’s explanation for Charles can be found here and I will question to the end of my days why the explanation was fully deleted from the book. I still wouldn’t have liked it but at least I would’ve had context. I simply wasn’t bodily prepared for having my cousin’s name dick slap me.
It’s so unfortunate this book is open door. I bet you’re thinking WHAAAAAT Hannah is mad at sex? Yes, because this man deserves zero orgasms. I don’t want to see him in the throes of pleasure. The sex was hot yeah, but *Charlie* made it a threesome every time in the worst way. And so many of the word choices were WRONG. I enjoyed none of the sex scenes because Prem is a soggy douche canoe with holes I don’t want to see filled.
My second favorite thing, nearly tied for first, is that this man said “Rina, honey” just about 50 times. For one, he started calling her honey WAY too soon. For all the marbles, IT WAS HORRIBLE. It made me sick. It rivaled Tessa Bailey’s obsession with “baby girl.” He “Rina, honeyed” all over this goddamn book like a randy youth..
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This next section is mainly going to be quotes because I! just! can’t! let! them! go!
- Prem: "You're the type of old single woman who blames her lack of a love life on people who view relationships practically."
- Prem: "Why so hostile?" he taunted. "Is it because you finally realized that I'm right? That love is a bullshit excuse that women like you use when no one wants them?"
- Normally Charlie needed a moment to catch its breath, but nope. Not this time. His adrenaline pumped through his body like he'd just ingested narcotics and his dick was at half chub.
- Charlie threatened to poke a hole through his pants, he was so turned on.
- Prem: "Rina, honey" 10 million times
- When he pushed down his boxer briefs, his penis practically popped out and whacked her in the eyeballs.
- his mushroom head (I’ve read this in other romances and it gets me every time lmao)
- Prem: "Can you tell me?" he blurted out. "Tell me how a beautiful, vibrant person like you believes in a house filled with memories? Why do you think love is more than an illusion? That love can sustain a relationship for years?"
- Charlie bounced up like a spring, immediately at full staff.
- Bobbi to Kareena: "God, does your waxer find cobwebs in your coochie?"
- Prem: "Google, play Dudes' Night playlist." Doodses
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I cared about very little of this book. I skimmed all of her dating app and text messages. I skipped all of her “bad dates” because they literally didn’t matter and tried to convince me that Prem wasn’t THAT bad. I also skimmed a lot of other filler shit because I could; the book seemed endless. Sue me. I nearly tapped out on page one when it was revealed that Kareena works at a company called: Women Who Work. I then almost stopped when Prem attempted to Gotcha! Bindu and tell her that her engagement was both a farce and doomed on television. I nearly left the group chat when he called Kareena an "old single woman" and a "woman who uses love as an excuse as to why no one wants her." But it was actually when Charlie entered stage left that made me keep reading so I could write this review.
Overall, I’d be semi okay with this book and the setup if Prem was a completely different character. I just can’t get behind her forgiving him so fast and him not changing at all. He was so righteous and smug. I did not believe his character was capable of fundamentally changing his horrible horribleness. His words during their viral fight were spoken with his WHOLE chest. The misogynistic shit that he spewed was so offensive and disgusting. But even then, the writing was clunky and fifteen pages in aged me five years. One star is given to Kareena and nothing/ no one else.
The very end was cute but seriously what the FUCK we barely got to know the actual main couple and they barely got to k✨He kissed her like a BROTHER?✨
The very end was cute but seriously what the FUCK we barely got to know the actual main couple and they barely got to know each other. This book revolves around other people, other POVs, and chess. Roberta is in love with Villiers from the beginning and that made zero sense. She was like w o w I’m gonna marry him and then proceeded to rhapsodize on and on about her love. We got like one I love you from her actual love interest? I don’t even remember her declaration. We got so few POV chapters from Gryffyn.
My fav is that Eloisa didn’t make the fact that they were cousins my least favorite part ...more
✨I’m sorry she straight up said this man was ugly and that his ass was comically white.✨
I just idk I know so many people love this one but maybe I’m j✨I’m sorry she straight up said this man was ugly and that his ass was comically white.✨
I just idk I know so many people love this one but maybe I’m just not long for this author. I’ve liked none of her books and I was hoping this would change that. I didn’t hate this at all… I just don’t see how it stands out from the pack. At all.
I’m over it though. I dislike how she kept her feelings for fuck nut Harry (literally thought about him after sex with the hero). I dislike characters like Harry. Reminds me of The Wrong Marquess and Third Son’s a Charm both of which I greatly disliked. Soooo in love with someone else (for no good reason) they lose all respect and make weird illogical decisions.
- Harry as a character here: relatively ok I guess - Harry as a character type: The Worst
I also think they had sex way too fast because I didn’t feel the connection. There wasn’t a lot of chemistry between them and it just felt awkward. There was a huge age gap and it just made me feel a bit icky. I don’t inherently mind age gaps but the lack of chemistry made it un-fun. I also don’t remember this sex very well but it was the most explicit of the books by the author I’ve read.
If I hadn’t known this was a well-loved book and if I hadn’t had it recommended to me (after disliking other Long books) and if I’d have read the summary before starting….I would not have read this one. I simply don’t suffer love triangles, especially how it functions here.
……..what did I miss bc everyone loves this one?? Have I been duped? I literally had to check that this was in fact the audiobook I listened to bc the covers were updated. Alas, it was correct. I had to go read low star ratings to confirm I’m not losing it. My question to those who liked it: were you already a fan of the author before reading this book? Bc I get that (although claim the opposite for myself in this situation) but it’s truly the only way I can reconcile with the resounding amount of five star reviews.
I dunno… if I wrote this in 2015 and I had the choice of promoting it in 2022… I would be embarrassed and try to destroy every copy rather than ✨nono✨
I dunno… if I wrote this in 2015 and I had the choice of promoting it in 2022… I would be embarrassed and try to destroy every copy rather than make a tiktok about the hot stepback that doesn’t even represent the heroine (tbh this is the LEAST of the book’s problems and it’s at least more or less out of Eloisa’s control). Story is probably 2⭐️s but the consent issues and horrible language used throughout made me cringe horribly and none of it was Hot as a result. This book is a Not. 1⭐️ star because the beginning had potential and the setup was again, great, but, again, the execution was severely lacking.
Mia is a whiny chicken and Vander is an abusive, suspicious bread crumb. Idk what happened to me but by the end I was even annoyed with Charlie like everything he did was nails on a chalkboard to me… I feel bad lol. Actually scratch that, the epilogue says he turned into a Vander clone as he aged so yeahhhh no dice for Chuck. Oh and Vander’s end poem was so bad ...more
✨His dresses got more action than he did because they were touching all up on her and shit and he was decidedly not touching all up on her and shit✨
Th✨His dresses got more action than he did because they were touching all up on her and shit and he was decidedly not touching all up on her and shit✨
This longest ride of my life and there were barely even horses I am just so tired. This could be 3⭐️ because I didn’t inherently hate anything about it, but when I’m so desperate to finish a book and am that painfully bored, it can’t get away with 3⭐️s. Literally nothing happens in this book. And it was a 14 hour audio! Torture.
Okay even removing the lack of steam, this book could’ve definitely been a YA Historical (less romance and more character building, life journey, coming of age moments).
The characters just feel so young and there’s just no real driving force behind anything anyone is doing (just feels like a snapshot of a normal day for these characters rather than finding ourselves amidst a story/ something unusual for them).
Low angst yes, but there’s zero chemistry so it doesn’t work here. Steam doesn’t always = chemistry either so no it’s not that I’m just a salty wench (which I AM but just not at 10:26PM). I think the narrators also make them sound young.
She just rides (not races) horses wearing his dresses but she’s unique bc she’s not a courtesan (woulda been more interesting). The concept was cool but the execution is so wonky. The potential of him being her dressmaker and getting to feel her up haunts me. It’s happened a bit but again it feels like a high school crush
To sum this book up: In any other romance, upon hearing the phrase “his interest was aroused,” I’d be all Heheheheheheh that’s not the only thing aroused but here I’m just like damn he really is just neutrally interested in what she’s talking about ...more
Read this review if a. you’re thinking about reading this book or b. if you read and despised this book and need someone to und✨A rough draft indeed.✨
Read this review if a. you’re thinking about reading this book or b. if you read and despised this book and need someone to understand the tumultuous thing your soul turned into after reading it. Also please read this review because it took me one (1) Lord of the Rings movie to complete. Two DVDs worth. This book robbed me of all happiness. Alms for the poor. Please give me alms.
This review is split up into different sections based on what I think you’d want to know about this book before going in. Or parts that really pissed me off that I think also really pissed off others. (Basically what I’d have wanted to know and the reason I finished this book. If not, I’d have DNFed at 10% and would’ve been a lot happier with the quality of my life.) Hopefully this helps you decide if this is a book for you because let me say now, this book is not about what the summary makes you think it’s going to be about.
- What actually happens in this book - Characters - Cheating (?) - Relationship - Romance - Steam - Genre - Flashbacks - Story within a story - Writing style - Concluding thoughts (you can start here if you want a short review)
What actually happens in this book (not the summary provided by the publisher because it left out *a lot*):
- This book is about two writers who never actually dated in the past. They were “best friends” but even friends have chemistry. I felt no chemistry. He always noticed her bee-stung lips and slender hands. Whoopie.
- This book is about two people who were in other relationships for most of the book. Nathan was married during every flashback (sans the one he was merely engaged). Katrina was engaged during most of the present scenes. More notes on emotional cheating below. Spoiler alert, it was cringey and I had a terrible time.
- These two authors do not write romance. The book they are writing in the present is about divorce, while somehow mirroring their… relationship? The couple gets divorced at the end but it’s… “so romantic?”
- Katrina only agreed to write the book in the present because her fiancé coerced her because he needed the book profits.
- This fiancé was also Nathan and Kat’s agent (he’s still her present day agent) so as along as they write the book, even if Kat breaks up with him, he still wins and gets money (I hate this more than almost anything).
- Personally, this book was a love story not a romance. Emotional cheating, amongst other things, ruined this book for me.
- Kat and Nathan are divorce and infidelity (this is self-proclaimed by them) writers, experiencing divorce and infidelity in this book.
Characters:
Nathan: He reminded me of a random dude lurking on Twitter trying to be profound about his opinions on love, tweeting at people who never asked for his opinion. He wears grey cowl neck sweaters he can’t pull off, slicks back his wet hair to look cool, and stayed in a marriage far too long when he was in love with another woman. I consistently called him Jeremy throughout this review and had to change it because I could never remember his name. I also don’t think he’s a Nathan because I like the name Nathan too much. I could not tell you what this man looks like. If he was walking down the street… I wouldn’t know a thing. But if he was driving down the street, I’d know he’s the asshole who rented a Porsche while temporarily in Florida. He loved talking about it. That’s really all you need to know about him.
Katrina: I technically liked Kat better than Nathan, but the bar was lower than dirt. I thought Kat was a very weak character. I was always just like… why are you doing the things that you’re doing???? Her fiancé was so terrible and she stayed with him far too long, for the worst reasons. I couldn’t trust nor respect her character after 10% of the book because she didn’t breakup with him right there. She chose to write the book for him and to also make him money. It was… so bad. I have no real opinions on the name Katrina but I did mix it up 50% of the time with Kristina during this review. I think she has curly hair? Definitely slender hands and bee-stung lips. Nothing else is coming to me.
Chris: Making a character so bad that it’s okay to cheat on him is just so confusing. Nuance? Never met her. Conflict? Uh. All his character did was make me question the heroine intensely and my relationship with her was never repaired.
Cheating(?):
Right off the bat, I had zero interest in a book where both characters were in separate relationships for the whole time. It was too close to infidelity, even in the flashbacks. Maybe I could have handled one character, but both just really wears me out. I would have liked her if she dumped the fiancé and wrote the book for herself from the beginning. That way they would have both been single in the present.
There was intense emotional cheating throughout the entire book, even a little bit of present day physical cheating (grinding against each other, kiss).
This book tries to convince you that as soon as Nathan discovered his feelings for Kat, he asked for a divorce before anything untoward could happen. False. The man literally confessed love before even letting his wife get an inkling that he didn’t love her. He said numerous times (I can’t quote directly from an arc, which is very unfortunate and difficult to show you the extend of just how clear his feelings for Kat were for the two years he was married) how he was struggling with these emotions and how he wanted to kiss her and how special she was, way before he asked for that divorce.
There are numerous scenes where Kat recognizes that he’s writing his love for her into their second book (the bestseller and book they write in the flashbacks) going so far as to describe her and what she’s wearing via the manuscript. There’s a flashback scene where they almost kiss but stop, but then he writes a mirroring scene for the book where the man doesn’t stop. Nathan then writes Kat a note saying this is what he wanted to happen in real life. Still properly married. Still much too long before he asked his wife for a divorce.
In the present, Nathan is finally divorced but now Kat is engaged to an utter fuck face. Kat is having all sorts of feelings in the present and one can argue she’s had them for 6 years. Me; I argue. It gets to a point where she’s still engaged but says fuck it and grinds all up on Nathan for “research” and kisses him. Nathan was pissed because she was using him and claims it “wasn’t” a kiss because he didn’t kiss back. This isn’t middle school. He didn’t prevent it from initially happening. It was a conscious decision by both to dance and go to the club and to eventually allow the kiss.
*spoiler* Technically her fiancé, Chris, gave her permission to cheat if it helped her write the book, but this doesn’t help. It makes it worse because a. that “permission” happened at 10% through the book and b. it took her 60% more to actually break up with him and c. she only kissed Nathan using the “permission” to spite Chris, before even breaking up with him while d. there was only one obvious and acceptable action and that was e. breaking up with the motherfucker at 10% when he told her she could cheat and that he’d get a different fiancé if she didn’t write the book and f. it gets revealed later on that she only started dating Chris to spite Nathan (in a vague wishy washy revelation).
Relationship:
Jeremy and Kristina should not have ended up together. They should have been alone and okay with it. Divorce is so pretty right?
Romance:
Well, there wasn’t much. I had no connection to either character and never felt their chemistry. The scene with them writing a sex scene managed to make me uncomfortable, not horny. I liked him buying books for her, but I hated that was him buying books for her. I want another couple in a different book to do this.
Steam:
I bet you’re curious about the sex like I was. Well, take note from above about tempering your expectations because y’all it was also just as disappointing as you hoped it wouldn’t be. I’ll give credit where credit is due: there was at least more than there could have been. She did go on top for a few seconds, but on top of what? Beats me because very *very* few words were actually used to describe this thing we’ve all been reading this book for. It was very impressive how the only words mildly sexual were “breasts,” “shudders,” “hardness,” and touched her “lower down.”
“Lower down.” They made her vagina sound like the underworld in a fantasy novel ...more
✨This book was a pain in my gluteus Maximus good GOD✨
Maximus is a horrible wench and I dislike that I have even a part of him in my brain. How this bo✨This book was a pain in my gluteus Maximus good GOD✨
Maximus is a horrible wench and I dislike that I have even a part of him in my brain. How this book has such a high collective rating is BEYOND me. Are y’all okay?? What even was that ending? I thought I could get over Maximus’s pomposity at the beginning but by 50% I decided I could fool myself no longer: Maximus (gluteus) Batten is an Ass.
I’m also tired of the fucking Ghost of St. Giles and his stupid reckless righteous honor and all that shit. Carry a gun and be done with it! Also the short story woven through was pointless to me and I really didn’t have the energy to parse through the double meanings. I haven’t cared for it in any of the books but here it was doubly angering because, well, I was already incensed.
The steam you ask? Idk I barely remember the sex besides the fact that both characters used it to delay important conversations which severely RUINED THE MOOD. Cockblocked by the throbbing, rock hard cock itself.
I wanted to like Artemis but she was honestly a weak character as well. I was happy she didn’t stop trying for Apollo but she gave into Maximus way too many times and just let him shut her up. She also had the worst propensity to see the best in Penelope and that was, to be quite honest, the most annoying part of this book. She just always caved or didn’t speak her words and I really just wanted her to flip a tit on everyone. What a mic drop that would have been if she would have set! Penelope! down! after the slap at the end. Recognize that Penelope and her father were cruel and used her. Recognize her self worth.
Apollo was a compelling character but I didn’t like the times in Bedlam. I was very stressed and didn’t like the assault we slightly overheard/ was implied. It also made Maximus even worse because he had to be blackmailed to rescue him. Also he underestimated Artemis which frustrated me.
Don’t even get me started on Maximus telling Artemis in one breath that they could never have a future, but on the next grunt he was coming inside her. She didn’t even know what being wet meant. I doubt she knew that he could have withdrawn. Yeah this was published years ago but still. Dick. Then he was like wow did I hurt her when I said a marriage to her would taint the dukedom? When I insulted her family and her brother and her knowledge? When I consistently refused to acknowledge that I had no reason to marry Penelope but was gonna do it anyway? When I asked her to be my mistress while I STILL married her cousin? When I was just a general boorish ass?
He wasn’t a good straight laced duke begging to come undone, no, what he was was impaled on a stick shoved straight up his self-righteous ass. His character only got worse. I really hate when a main character is so hellbent on duty that he forgoes his happiness for zero reason. Sometimes a dukedom needs a fortune or something which is mildly understandable, but to please dead parents who wouldn’t want him to marry Penelope anyways? So so pointless.
Further, I’m a simple wench, I don’t want an animal to die in my romance novel. Fair warning, the lovely Ghost of St. Giles slit the throat of a horse in “kindness” so again I beg of him to get a gun. I just really hate animal deaths and I won’t stand for them.
There’s so much more I could say but I really just think this book sucked.
✨In the most polite way possible, what the FUCK did I just read?✨
Highlights:
✨Kissing didn’t begin until around 70% and it was with ANOTHER WOMAN. LIT✨In the most polite way possible, what the FUCK did I just read?✨
Highlights:
✨Kissing didn’t begin until around 70% and it was with ANOTHER WOMAN. LITERALLY HE KISSED ANOTHER WOMAN BEFORE OLIVIA. I DONT CARE THAT HE WAS REPULSED.
✨I mentioned repulsed, yes he was also repulsed by how vulgar the woman who kissed him was (it’s a long story but she was his brother’s former paramour). She said she was going to think about him while she pleasured herself and he was like WOW how did my beloved brother put up with her vulgar soul? Twas at that point I made a note that we were most certainly not getting hot sex lmao. (I was more or less correct.)
✨Only to THEN allow Olivia to SUCK HIS DICK LIKE A POPSICLE. But that wasn’t vulgar??? Hypocrite.
✨WHICH led me to assume that since they both went to down(town) on each other, then there would for SURE be penetrative sex. NOPE. The fuckers got married and then their chaste wedding kiss promised “many blissful nights.” THAT’S IT. HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO GO ABOUT MY DAY KNOWING THIS FUCKING CONUNDRUM EXISTS. Like the scene was relatively hot and semi-explicit but they did NOT round the bases! I won’t settle for a double in a genre full of homeruns. Like the scene wasn’t good enough to stand on its own. The author can clearly write sex? So why not??? Is it because he was so holy? Because let me tell you the man was not that holy.
✨We literally got ONE FUCKING SCENE THAT INCLUDED THE ONLY KISS. I SWEAR TO MOTHER FUCKING GOD THEY KISSED AND THEN DISROBED AND THEN ORAL ALL IN LIKE FIVE PAGES. THEIR FIRST KISS. WHAT KIND OF PACING IS THAT. HOW DO YOU JUST DO THAT.
✨There was a villain dude who just had absolutely nothing happen to him? She was gonna keep using to him to make Daniel jealous but then it just fizzled and we never heard from him again. In no way would he just go away quietly??? He was also super secretive and they made constant note of the secrecy but we never learned about it???? What?? The book just said her father ended the courtship in certain terms. Like that’s all! It happened off the page! What!
✨Idk I also wanted a virgin hero but he was a “former rake” who was very ashamed but also very proficient apparently. That doesn’t affect the rating it just rankled. He also used his faith to seem morally superior to others and it also rankled. I understand faith would be a part of this but it just wasn’t my cup of tea (but really isn’t a fault of the book).
✨He was also a SUPERIOR dick munch to her. Like he was an asshole on many occasions because he needed to “break her heart” and then get out of dodge. It was just not enjoyable. Olivia was fine and good but lord save me from the rest. Also him even pretending to take court back up with the singer was just such a low blow.
✨He also had a random thought to find her a suitable husband but nothing ever came from that. Like he never tried.
✨So this book worked in tandem with the first book, which was the other twin going on his own “spiritual” journey. They both fell in love in parallel. Well the end did a shitty job summarizing how Devlin succeeded in getting Mary back. It was just so vague which didn’t work to make this a stand alone book.
✨In a perverse way, I want to read book one because I’m always fucking curious no matter how badly I’ve been burned. But I shan’t because it won’t end well. I need someone to sparknotes it for me.
✨I deeply despised it and everything it stood for. Dishonor on its horse . . . Oh wait. Tessa killed it.✨
In this house if you kill a horse because of ✨I deeply despised it and everything it stood for. Dishonor on its horse . . . Oh wait. Tessa killed it.✨
In this house if you kill a horse because of a cockmonster like Jack you get two stars. I don’t make the rules. I come to you on the day of this review to tell you that I really don’t remember much about this book and to that I say HUZZAH. Because I do still remember I loathed this literary experience. I can’t, however, tell you the main characters’ names.
This book just contained so many things I tire of in romances and it didn’t do any of them well. What’s her name’s brother was so bad. Just so bad. Which made her bad. So bad. She kept on forgiving him and making excuses and annoying the shit out of me. Jack pulled a Mr. Wickham and got a horse killed so yeah, he’s on my shit list.
What’s his name didn’t fare much better. He was obsessed with stupid tokens. I swear to God and Tom Hanks if I hear that word ONE more time I’ll lose all my shit. The whole Stud Club mentality was just stupid and useless. I also just don’t care much for horse talk. He was obsessed with horse talk. He was a horse girl. His ward was also annoying until like 2% left of the book. I have little patience for annoying children in books apparently.
Will I keep reading the series? I don’t know; I really don’t know. This book didn’t compel me to, but I do have the other books on my shelf so if I’m feeling rather melancholy one night I’ll know where to go.
OKAY so I just wrote my review for The Wrong Marquess by Vivienne Lorret and everything I said there ✨Wow this impressed me by how much I disliked it✨
OKAY so I just wrote my review for The Wrong Marquess by Vivienne Lorret and everything I said there about George (I fucking hate George) can be applied to this fucker of the hour, Francis. Francis was the clear villain from the start, there was never any nuance to his character and he was very unappealing, which made the heroine VERY unappealing because she was attracted to his VERY UNAPPEALING ass.
While the Lorret book was at least redeemed (enough to the tune of 1 extra ⭐️) by the cuteness of the main relationship, this book was not. I say this with no hyperbole: I truly don’t know how anyone actually enjoyed this book. Violence? I choose thee. This book chewed me up and spit me out and I’m still scarred two weeks later.
I was very enthused by the whole bodyguard vibe until I realized THIS MAN IS THE WORST BODYGUARD TO EVER WALK GOD’S GREEN FUCKING EARTH. He let conversation, food, and fucking Francis draw his attention from Lorraine. NO absolutely the fuck NOT your honor this is preposterous to the first degree. He’s also supposed to be in LOVE with her and I’m sorry no hero of mine let’s a crusty ass fucker named Francis succeed in making him take his eyes off of her. Especially when she’s tryna smooch the crusty ass fucker named Francis. ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE’S STILL TRYNA SMOOCH THE CRUSTY ASS FUCKER NAMED FRANCIS AT 64 PERCENT. They all need to cease and desist for my sanity.
Then we have Lorraine the pound cake. Why? Because she’s fucking DENSE. She wouldn’t recognize a clue if it stripped naked and twerked in her face. Much like George in The Wrong Marquess, Francis was THE WORST and so obviously THE WORST that he was uninteresting and made this book UNINTERESTING. Francis was terrible, which made Lorraine terrible for liking him, which made Ewan terrible for liking her. Again, Francis ruined everything and everyone and paid for NONE of it, at least on the page where I got to revel in it.
I also couldn’t give two flying fucks about the parents and their rekindled romance. Miss me with the bullshit that’s meant to cover up the fact that the main relationship is severely lacking in other fucks for me to give.
I get the summary says oral surgery but every piece of marketing laid so thick into toothbrush, toothpaste, an✨Did this book even mention toothpaste?✨
I get the summary says oral surgery but every piece of marketing laid so thick into toothbrush, toothpaste, and things that make you think “dentist” not “major and intense oral/facial reconstructive” surgeon. I get it, it’s on me. This is the one time the summary was actually very accurate. But the cover? The connotations? That’s on them. “Dental Dam” Dan being a dental student made zero sense and was only added to make it more dentisty. It honestly terrified me because he was really going to become a dentist, something he literally hated and that grossed him out. A DENTIST. KEEP HIM AWAY FROM MY MOUTH IN ALL SCENARIOS.
It did not feel like a dentist book. I thought they would be swooning over each other in a workplace romance way, but nope. They’re both in school and we barely got to see any dental or oral surgeon stuff. We rarely see them dentist. I knew Harper was an oral surgeon, but we rarely got good behind the scenes look at what it was like. It was mainly just about the rigor of the school and pressure of it all. Yes, that’s useful information for Harper’s character, but it didn’t feel like the book I signed up to read.
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As for Dan and Harper, I disliked them both. First it was Dan, then it was Harper, then it was both. What a journey! Like ping pong! Watch out for these balls of fury. Neither felt like they were actually 26-year-old adults. They acted like undergrads in most scenarios, even younger in others. Their decisions were embarrassing at times and I never felt the connection because this was the, and I mean THE, most instant case of insta love I have ever experienced.
I couldn’t even tell you the timeline of their relationship. They met and BOOM they’re all touchy feely, wanting to lick random extremities and graze teeth everywhere. (I assume this was because it was a “dentist” book? Tongues, mouths, teeth, etc. Idk just stick with oral.) He was saying she’s the most gorgeous gorgeous brained girl. She was saying he was her safe space from anxiety. It felt like a week for a relationship that had the familiarity of three years. He was kissing her forehead, slow dancing and humming in her kitchen, and being SO touchy before they even kissed. They were nearly getting it ON before they even kissed. It just seemed way too intimate, way too fast. Dan had absolutely nothing more to his name than being obsessed with Harper and being in dental school for a ridiculous ridiculous reason. Oh baby, lemme lick your nose.
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Dan was a spineless toad. Harper is kinda the worst to him and he’s like wow her brilliant mind and beautiful hands. His mom guilt-tripped him into dental school at 26, while he had a whole ass career which was fucking WEIRD. How do you let someone guilt you into DENTAL SCHOOL? He has Harper so high on a pedestal she can see across the Pacific. He’s eager in the worst way. Like just so obsessed with her. He is painfully obtuse, singleminded, heavy handed, and absolutely unrealistic. I was never attracted to this weird man child. He was never a cinnamon roll. He was an untoasted, unbuttered, unflavored piece of sandwich bread.
He is the type of man you dream up in the first draft. Dan is your ideal, your wet dream. Just so goddamn devoted to you. Then you start dating him and realize he is an absolutely boring shadow following you around. You realize the chase was more fun than the catch. Then you realize that this book didn’t even have the chase! It was so insta love I was distraught. They met, he was like wow, she was like wow, he was like marry me, she was like tbh I’m tempted but women can’t have a relationship and goals because that’s #hard. She blames him for making her like him so much that she forgets deadlines. Not just blames, but reads him to filth. HONEY WHAT THE FUCK.
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Harper as a character was trying to accomplish way too much in one book. Her character was being pulled in so many directions they effectively canceled each other out in the story as a whole. I just couldn’t with her blaming Dan for everything and let me remind you I PRETTY MUCH HATE THE MAN. I’m sorry but she’s very very bad to Dan and she admits she is being cruel and lying and wrong but she keeps laying it the fuck on. It was really fucked up. I support neither of these characters.
Right off the bat, this book tried to do something by making “shit” the first word. Personally, it just set the tone for me and it was pretty accurate. For me, it means the book is going to fundamentally understand my soul… or tell me to go fuck myself. What I mean by this is that I think being “a relatable teen” is a huge thing this book tried to do. It tried to do it too hard and too much. The main culprits were Harper’s caricatures dressed up as friends. Some of the words that came out of their mouths just really baffled me. Half of this book was Harper and Dan. The other half was a mix of weird phrases and cringey one-liners from the supporting cast. Most landed severely off beat for me.
Her friends were simply included to be “comic relief,” which is fine I suppose, but they weren’t funny, just cringey. Sorry, but I draw the line and one “titty” mention per book. Also randomly trying to get a Brazilian? So fucking bizarre. I have never wanted to strangle anyone with my Fallopian tubes, thank you very much. I would never go anywhere near a bone zone. Alex having sweet relief? Good God I’m sorry but NO. It was a bad mix of frat boy, dad, and Twitter language. I genuinely wouldn’t want to know any of these people in real life.
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As for the audiobook, I didn’t mind Harper’s narrator but good lord Dan’s guy just… went for it. Unfortunately, I didn’t particularly like any way he got the get. His voice for Harper was grating to say the least, making her sound about 16 years old. It was horrifying during the sex scenes. Not only did we have him doing Harper’s weirdly young voice, but we also had this man being so overcome. I’d wager he was damn near close to achieving orgasm. I would have preferred Harper’s narrator to narrate the whole thing. The narrators also talked super slow. I listened to this at 2.0 speed and never even broke a sweat.
Stripping away everything else, the main, driving force working against our “lovers” was Harper not being able to balance Dan and her school. Which I suppose is fine and realistic, but the way she blamed him was just so Not A Good Time. The third act break up was just so hard to swallow. It made Harper, who could have been an incredibly nuanced character, turn into one bad decision after another. Just a really bad crush. That’s all it was. I am, at once, absolutely not shocked that people loved this book and fundamentally shocked that people loved this book. And I think that makes perfect sense.
✨The last hour of this book taught me what the flames of hell feel like.✨
*Two stars is probably a bit too bold but I was pissed at the nosedive this b✨The last hour of this book taught me what the flames of hell feel like.✨
*Two stars is probably a bit too bold but I was pissed at the nosedive this book took and I took it personally.* I’m just going to post my notes while reading this. Batten down your hatches and prepare for chaos. I loved this one until I didn’t . . .
Infatuated or mildly insane
Sick scene with rambling hero A Sexual Snake Bite
She asked him his favorite color so there was a DISTINCT missed the opportunity to say that she was his favorite color down the road. She as in her vagina.
Lmao Evan is a FOOL “marry me so your money is mine” that’s hot
If she deigns to give Evan a thought about that marriage . . .
I don’t get it why can’t she give them some money? Like give her the dowry and be gone idk
I desperately want Evan to be a VILLAIN
Omg he did it too he was like you need this type of man so instead of leaving you to be “better off” I’ll be that man MYSELF that’s my new kink. JK FIVE MINUTES LATER HE WAS LIKE BYE BITCH GO MARRY YOUR COUSIN INCEST IS WINCEST I HATE EVERYTHING
Honeybun wanted a bit of the Pirates of the Caribbean holding his heart in her hands moment lmao
Everybody was too complacent during that weird duel scene like they needed to admit Evan was being an ASS. “Kate wanted to argue” so argue!! Who cares if he won’t listen, at least try! They literally had a sword fight!! And they just let him be terrible!!! Kate was too forgiving!! What the fuck!!! Fuck that weird ass family! Evan made my skin crawl UGH. I’m not at peace and I don’t like this—nobody is taking this seriously!!! Kate was shouting shit in her mind. Bitch open that mouth and let it rip! Stupid pissing contest get a diaperrrrr
Demanding quiet while the pupil was singing was a good moment for Thorne though.
The beginning and middle of this book were not worth the pain that was the ending
Low self confidence, doubted his own worth, and couldn’t value her opinion if he couldn’t deign to value his own.
And then the aunt was terrible too? What the fuck happened to this book I just wanna know. How the fuck did she forgive the aunt bitch?
EVAN’S BEEN SO GOOD TO HER???? AccaSCUSE me biTCH? Do not just hand over the love of your life to her COUSIN!
So this is what the burning flames of hell feel like: the last hour of this book
He’s like she’d smile on the outside she’s so brave
His katie would be bravely smiling even if she was walking to a guillotine??????
✨This man didn’t deserve to be a virgin hero but he also didn’t deserve to have sex so we are in a ❤️predicament❤️✨
2.5⭐️/5 rounded down because an ani✨This man didn’t deserve to be a virgin hero but he also didn’t deserve to have sex so we are in a ❤️predicament❤️✨
2.5⭐️/5 rounded down because an animal was killed and it pissed me off on top of everything else. I liked the beginning well enough but I’m just not strong enough for marriage-in-trouble books. I really just am not. Here though, most of the book was building the foundation for a bad marriage, rather than the marriage itself. Which was… fun? to watch [read: it was not fun].
A previous version of this review said that this book made me mad, ~artfully~ mad, but fuck it I have zero clue what I meant but I’m leaving it in. I don’t think I’d ever reread it. I liked parts and parts of the characters and the plot (my favorite is the factor, Bardolph) but overall it just wasn’t much fun during the second half. I’m questioning if it was even much fun to begin with; I think it was me more so anticipating it getting better so I was going along with it, which is not what I got.
The sex scenes were just mostly painful because that’s how they were supposed to be. And the one good time had about seven orgasms in two pages so safe to say I’m not writing home about this book. It tried to have important conversations about various topics but it pretty much fumbled the bag. Flat bellies and rounded turnips grated on me by the end.
Oh also Eloisa adds in the pathos animal—in this case a dog named Molly—whose tragic backstory is supposed to endear our hero to us. When will authors accept that killing animals is never the answer???? We! Get! It! The hero has a tragic past in and a terrible father capable of killing innocent animals but we don’t need VISUALS. I PROMISE the amount you have said heroes sulk about their daddy issues gives us AMPLE food for thought. Leave me and the dogs alone with that ass backwards thinking.
Pretty cover though and this book did make me want my own tricked out cello tower. Perfect place to cry because this book just overall made me sad and melancholy and a bit queasy. Take me to the lakes I say.
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