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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
This was a nice cozy read, with a surprisingly very realistic portrayal of grief and sense of duty. I loved all the characters EXCEPT Drew’s dad. If I could hide under that MFs bed like the boogeyman I would.
I am taking off a star for the use of “obvi” and all the different pop culture references. I just couldn’t get into it, it felt very much like the caricature people try to paint millennials as. And while I like Drew’s character as a whole, that part was cringe inducing. However my opinion isn’t the end all be all, what I don’t like someone else may love.
All in all, a good quick read. I will be checking out more of Alexa’s books.
I am taking off a star for the use of “obvi” and all the different pop culture references. I just couldn’t get into it, it felt very much like the caricature people try to paint millennials as. And while I like Drew’s character as a whole, that part was cringe inducing. However my opinion isn’t the end all be all, what I don’t like someone else may love.
All in all, a good quick read. I will be checking out more of Alexa’s books.
3 it was fine stars.
There was a lot of potential for this book but it never reached it for me. The story was fine but nothing special. Jasper is too perfect of a character with basically no flaws and Drew has some very frustrating moments.
I understood Drew quite well at times, the divorced parents and the fathers new family thing and how that can lead to a strained relationship with your new sister. Her situation is different from mine but I still get some of that. How she had never given her sister Daisy a chance though and then how they were suddenly best friends was such a 180 it was a bit of whiplash really. I liked the pieces we saw of Daisy but I'd have liked that relationship to be better fleshed out and not suddenly that close. I also felt for Drew with the loss of her Grandmother and how lost she felt without her. There were times that grief came through the page so clearly it brought me close to tears. The problem with Drew, is that she didn't really listen to anyone. She had these thoughts about what she thought her Grandmother wanted her to do and wouldn't pay attention to anyone else's opinions. Instead of doing anything to help her cope with her grief she hid from everyone and everything that ever mattered to her.
Jasper is the perfect, super attractive, writer. Oh did I say how incredibly handsome he is? He needed a flaw of some kind. Nobody is that incredibly sweet and perfect, so it made him unrealistic. I did enjoy the travel and exploration him and Drew did and the inevitable one bed trope was put in at a good place in the story. I liked how he got Drew reading again and she realized that not all stories are fairytales.
The drama near the end was over the top and seemed so out of character. The reason gets explained but its so unsatisfactory. The book was better without the inevitable third act split. Or there needed to be better reasons for it at the very least since the grand gesture was cute.
Again, this book was fine. The language choices weren't great, trying to use current abbreviations and slang that likely wont age well and made the characters seem very young at times.
There was a lot of potential for this book but it never reached it for me. The story was fine but nothing special. Jasper is too perfect of a character with basically no flaws and Drew has some very frustrating moments.
I understood Drew quite well at times, the divorced parents and the fathers new family thing and how that can lead to a strained relationship with your new sister. Her situation is different from mine but I still get some of that. How she had never given her sister Daisy a chance though and then how they were suddenly best friends was such a 180 it was a bit of whiplash really. I liked the pieces we saw of Daisy but I'd have liked that relationship to be better fleshed out and not suddenly that close. I also felt for Drew with the loss of her Grandmother and how lost she felt without her. There were times that grief came through the page so clearly it brought me close to tears. The problem with Drew, is that she didn't really listen to anyone. She had these thoughts about what she thought her Grandmother wanted her to do and wouldn't pay attention to anyone else's opinions. Instead of doing anything to help her cope with her grief she hid from everyone and everything that ever mattered to her.
Jasper is the perfect, super attractive, writer. Oh did I say how incredibly handsome he is? He needed a flaw of some kind. Nobody is that incredibly sweet and perfect, so it made him unrealistic. I did enjoy the travel and exploration him and Drew did and the inevitable one bed trope was put in at a good place in the story. I liked how he got Drew reading again and she realized that not all stories are fairytales.
The drama near the end was over the top and seemed so out of character. The reason gets explained but its so unsatisfactory. The book was better without the inevitable third act split. Or there needed to be better reasons for it at the very least since the grand gesture was cute.
Again, this book was fine. The language choices weren't great, trying to use current abbreviations and slang that likely wont age well and made the characters seem very young at times.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The book was way over explained for nothing really exciting to happen within the length of the book. I knew more about the relationship of Drew and her grandma than Drew and Jasper. I wish I knew what happened more about the romantic relationship after the ending. The purpose was cute.
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I liked the concept better than the execution. The cover is one of my favorites though
Honestly, it’s fine. A little cringey at times and a little too repetitive, but fine. The writing nor story really grabbed me even after I gave it a more than fair shot of 100 pages. I could absolutely finish it…but I have no desire to.
I wanted a bit more than what was given. There were some cute moments, but more often than not, I found myself rolling my eyes from the tropes and how "not-like-other-girls" then main character came off as at times. The consistency of the way some characters spoke seemed off as well. My biggest grievance, however, was the way the love interest was talked about. We get it. He's hot. It felt like the first half was mentioning his God-like looks and "deep pools of blue-green eyes" every other paragraph. It was grating. While it got a bit better in the second half, needing to kick up the reading speed to 1.60 at 3% through doesn't feel like a good sign..