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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
For my em. Don’t wait this long. Come let me love you.
The premise was amazing, the execution was on POINT, but I didn’t feel anything really, it felt like watching a show while being on your phone I guess?
The premise was amazing, the execution was on POINT, but I didn’t feel anything really, it felt like watching a show while being on your phone I guess?
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
This was an absurd ride. I literally cannot decide how to rate this book. It’s either awesome or so so terrible. So I am going with a mid. Because quite frankly I love trauma books. But i struggled a lost with connecting his past to his now. And that seemed off. I didn’t get the boyfriend plot line either. It just seemed odd that they didn’t know so much stuff about each other so that steh mediocre rating.
easily one of the best second chance romances I’ve ever read
This one barely counts as being “read”. Twenty pages in and I had to give up. Usually I’ll give a book at least fifty pages, but I couldn’t see this one getting any better. I hated the authors voice and style. The writing completely lacked emotion and was flat, flat, flat. Interesting concept, poor execution. I’m not sure how the rating on this one is so high.
3⭐️ Entertaining but not enough for me read it again
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I started this book in March 2020, amid my dry reading block and barley got through 30% of it before i left it off to be forgotten until today. This book was a typical feel good romance with chicklit and self-discovery elements but something through it out didn't sit right with me. It clearly was the pacing of the plot and the execution of it. The storyline was clearly a good one, but it felt slow in the beginning with a frustrating stubborn streak in Emiline. But flawed character has a realistic stretch to it which was why i read a part of it. Safe to say i got bored, which is not an insult. I didn't have my reading streak then. This review is gonna be as chaotic as it can get because my brain cells can't concentrate to save my life.
Spoilers will be included.
Getting more into it, i picked it up today and finished it, with mixed feelings. That good satisfaction from a good romance was there but barely. The second half was incredibly rushed and at the same time dragged.(Weird but it happens).The intended 'slow-burn' part which is meant to lead up to a heart-stopping ending which would absolutely crush your single heart and send you to a sad spiralling of your romanceless life, well it just didn't happened. Because it was badly executed, Cara's last second romance felt rushed (surprise, surprise), Emiline's last minute run to LA and her short convo with her seat neighbor was lowkey cringey ngl, the epilogue was just..bad (it should have made it to the book). Adding to the fact that it felt like Emiline wasn't really changing because she refused to end the book which seemed to be a sign that she was scared and is avoiding facing reality, in reality (escapist bish like me). And Jason felt...too made up to send me to throes of passion for a book character. He seemed too good to be true yet too slimy (lot of 'too's with this guy), because I must admit I'm not a fan of a guy getting straight to the sexual energy of the relationship after 12 flecking years of no connection or contact. Like dude, catch up, do something other than getting straight up immediately. And don't keep pursuing that sexual energy while acting like God, (or a stalker), knowing everything about her like bruh, which man knows your thoughts without you telling him? A stalker.
But even Joe couldn't know what his girl was upto in her brains with all stalking and psycho-analysing.
And don't even get me started on TREVOR, because that character could be finessed up rather just a bloke with no personality and a hastened addiction used to provide confusion and show that gurl can love two men at the same time. Like bish, every other character (ALL other characters) was just catering to Emiline and her 'change' and that is just unfair because no character should be given that treatment. Characters are a writer's brainchild and you're showing favouritism. (THAT is NOt FaiR to ChildREn!)
Reality is that sometimes it doesn't finish up that neatly as this book did. Closure doesn't happen immediately or if a person wants it to happen.
Reality is not fiction and fiction is not reality, i know. But a good fiction should make you doubt your own reality and a good romance should be good enough that it becomes my night-time fantasy before sleep (for me that is). And make my self-loving ass crave for a man, any man. But this...didn't make it. And i have been liberal with the stars because this book did make me feel good at the slightest, even with the barely-baked characters.
Spoilers will be included.
Getting more into it, i picked it up today and finished it, with mixed feelings. That good satisfaction from a good romance was there but barely. The second half was incredibly rushed and at the same time dragged.(Weird but it happens).The intended 'slow-burn' part which is meant to lead up to a heart-stopping ending which would absolutely crush your single heart and send you to a sad spiralling of your romanceless life, well it just didn't happened. Because it was badly executed, Cara's last second romance felt rushed (surprise, surprise), Emiline's last minute run to LA and her short convo with her seat neighbor was lowkey cringey ngl, the epilogue was just..bad (it should have made it to the book). Adding to the fact that it felt like Emiline wasn't really changing because she refused to end the book which seemed to be a sign that she was scared and is avoiding facing reality, in reality (escapist bish like me). And Jason felt...too made up to send me to throes of passion for a book character. He seemed too good to be true yet too slimy (lot of 'too's with this guy), because I must admit I'm not a fan of a guy getting straight to the sexual energy of the relationship after 12 flecking years of no connection or contact. Like dude, catch up, do something other than getting straight up immediately. And don't keep pursuing that sexual energy while acting like God, (or a stalker), knowing everything about her like bruh, which man knows your thoughts without you telling him? A stalker.
But even Joe couldn't know what his girl was upto in her brains with all stalking and psycho-analysing.
And don't even get me started on TREVOR, because that character could be finessed up rather just a bloke with no personality and a hastened addiction used to provide confusion and show that gurl can love two men at the same time. Like bish, every other character (ALL other characters) was just catering to Emiline and her 'change' and that is just unfair because no character should be given that treatment. Characters are a writer's brainchild and you're showing favouritism. (THAT is NOt FaiR to ChildREn!)
Reality is that sometimes it doesn't finish up that neatly as this book did. Closure doesn't happen immediately or if a person wants it to happen.
Reality is not fiction and fiction is not reality, i know. But a good fiction should make you doubt your own reality and a good romance should be good enough that it becomes my night-time fantasy before sleep (for me that is). And make my self-loving ass crave for a man, any man. But this...didn't make it. And i have been liberal with the stars because this book did make me feel good at the slightest, even with the barely-baked characters.
i was going to say 3.5 stars and round down, but I would say it dropped to a 2.75 in the last like 30%.
the book started off really strong, but it just sort of fell off at some point and never came back. like the dialogue is lame and there's not really any chemistry between anyone in the book at all, they're all very flat characters. kind of upsetting because I was really excited about this book for a long time, and now I'm just disappointed. the main character was fun at the beginning but now I hate her and she's annoying. the writing just wasn't very good, I think it got worse as the book went on.
best line by far
"I love you and you love me."
"No, Emi, you're wrong. I nothing you."
like HUH I'm supposed to believe a grown man said that, no way, I actually laughed oops
the book started off really strong, but it just sort of fell off at some point and never came back. like the dialogue is lame and there's not really any chemistry between anyone in the book at all, they're all very flat characters. kind of upsetting because I was really excited about this book for a long time, and now I'm just disappointed. the main character was fun at the beginning but now I hate her and she's annoying. the writing just wasn't very good, I think it got worse as the book went on.
best line by far
"I love you and you love me."
"No, Emi, you're wrong. I nothing you."
like HUH I'm supposed to believe a grown man said that, no way, I actually laughed oops
I think Renée Carlino is slowly becoming one of my new favorite authors.
I loved this book so much
Heartbreakingly beautiful
I loved this book so much
Heartbreakingly beautiful