Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

SO INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTED. This book just gets worse and worse. 50% through this book I was convinced it would be a new favorite and 5/5⭐️…Then around 75% rating dropped to 3/5⭐️….then when I was done with the book at 100% a GENEROUS 1.75/5⭐️. I’m so disappointed because the beginning of this book feels 5/5⭐️, it truly had so much potential and it just went downhill from there (and at a record speed I might add). The ending felt so rushed, you basically get a SLOW (possibly the slowest ever) burn romance and then this insanely rushed ending that is truly terrible. (And the ending smashed into essentially one chapter)

And the smut felt so weird to me. Very weird wording. Example: “his mushroomed tip” LIKE IM SORRY WHAT. And “Flesh parting” IDK COULD JUST BE ME BUT THIS WAS PAINFUL TO READ Then the word penis is used throughout which felt weirdly medical somehow.
When i tell you these two characters had ZERO chemistry i mean it. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IM NOT EVEN CONVINCED THEY LIKED EATCH OTHER (and not in a cute banter way, more so a totally indifferent way) Also I feel like I am suffering from whiplash….you get no smut other than a few lightly described kisses…THEN WE JUST JUMP RIGH INTO THIS IN THE LAST CHAPTER. THIE IS ESPECIALLY AWFUL BC THERE IS NO CHEMISTRY!!!

And…… I’m sorry but Aiden had zero personality. MZ missed the mark on this one, he wasn’t brooding and grumpy…he was nothing. The total absence of a personality.

ALSO MULTIPLE ISSUES PERTAINING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT WERE HANDLED SO POORLY.
- at one point he is sexually assaulted (being groped by a fan) and she laughs at him for it, and makes fun of his reaction (him being uncomfortable).
- she wakes up to him already initiating sex, he is already touching her genitals with his hands. LIKE HELLO CONSENT??
“How long has this been going on? I asked myself before I accepted that it didn’t matter.” -LIKE NO IT DEFINITELY MATTERS TF?

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The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata
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AND The book is filled with references to his size (she calls him “big guy” throughout the book) and talks consistently about food intake, exercise ect.) I understand this can be triggering to some so I thought I would include it.

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3.0

A nice slow burn (with not too many steamy scenes, which is nice), but what I really didn't expect was a scene where the main heroine makes fun of the main hero after he was molested by a fan? I checked and it was published in 2016, by which point I thought we as a society kind of reached an understanding that sexual assault is not something to make fun of, regardless of who it's perpetuated against (men, women, anyone else). Plus there are a bunch of red flags the controlling LI was giving throughout the story, which is something that I feel plagues most romance books.

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