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ok the sex was hot in this one, but he was a spoiled brat.
"I work hard... but I love harder"
¡Me ha encantado! Llevaba tiempo viendo buenas reseñas de este libro pero me echaba para atrás que fuera tan largo (550 páginas en mi kindle), pero me alegro mucho de haberle dado una oportunidad porque me ha gustado muchísimo. Salvando las distancias de lo inversímil que suelen ser este tipo de novelas me gusta mucho que la autora se toma su tiempo en desarrollar y explicar bien las emociones de los personajes.
Mención especial a lo que me he reído en el capítulo del camping.. ay por favor qué risa.
No le doy 5 estrellas porque a veces el comportamiento de la protagonista me desesperaba mucho, no entiendo que necesitaran discutir absolutamente todo. Chica, que pesadita..
Deseando estoy de ponerme con la historia de Tristan, que para lo poquito que he visto de él en este libro se que me va a encantar como protagonista.
¡Me ha encantado! Llevaba tiempo viendo buenas reseñas de este libro pero me echaba para atrás que fuera tan largo (550 páginas en mi kindle), pero me alegro mucho de haberle dado una oportunidad porque me ha gustado muchísimo. Salvando las distancias de lo inversímil que suelen ser este tipo de novelas me gusta mucho que la autora se toma su tiempo en desarrollar y explicar bien las emociones de los personajes.
Mención especial a lo que me he reído en el capítulo del camping.. ay por favor qué risa.
No le doy 5 estrellas porque a veces el comportamiento de la protagonista me desesperaba mucho, no entiendo que necesitaran discutir absolutamente todo. Chica, que pesadita..
Deseando estoy de ponerme con la historia de Tristan, que para lo poquito que he visto de él en este libro se que me va a encantar como protagonista.
fast-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Quite possibly one of the worst things I've read and I've read a book about a sentient door
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
someone needs to wash my brain out with bleach. really get into the nooks and crannies with a wire brush. i had a very bad time reading this. the FMC was completely irrational and could not have been more of a pushover. she started yelling at the slightest provocation and all her tantrums were just embarrassing. the MMC was just ugh. he was arrogant and selfish and entitled and need i go on? he just expected the FMC to just do whatever he said. that is not attractive at all, i’m sorry
DNF at 56%
I've had this book on my TBR for a while, and I was really looking forward to listening to it on my 5-hour drive home today. I ended up only making it through about 4 hours of the book before I just had to call it quits.
There was so much about this book that I didn't really enjoy. First of all, she kept calling her lady bits her "sex". Yes, it's anatomically correct. Yes it's a good word for it here and there but that was by far the most common one she used and it got really old REALLY fast. I started physically cringing when I heard it.
Maybe the author didn't want to use pussy or cunt or moist folds but surely she could have come up with some other terms? Especially when she had no problem using cock or dick. Along with that is she kept using like "medical" or technical terminology which just kept pulling me out of the story. I'm sorry, I just don't want to hear the word pre-ejaculate when they're getting down with the get down 🤣
And Emily kept talking about how the MMC was using just the right amount of suction when they kissed? WTF is that about? I mean I know they call it sucking face but I thought that was what teenagers did 🤣 or the kegeling your way to an orgasm? It was so weird
I also wish there had been more from Jameson's s point of view (but given how toxic he is maybe I'll take it back) In the almost 4 hours that I listened and approximately 12 chapters there was only three times that the male narrator spoke, which was especially frustrating because Emily was ridiculously immature.
Actually both of them were pretty immature. Emily's personality was inconsistent and childish. Jameson, as I mentioned is toxic and essentially stalking her through CCTV cameras, and it seemed like all they did was fight and then have sex and fight and have sex. (So maybe they really were literally sucking face lol)
Just .... no. 🤣
I've had this book on my TBR for a while, and I was really looking forward to listening to it on my 5-hour drive home today. I ended up only making it through about 4 hours of the book before I just had to call it quits.
There was so much about this book that I didn't really enjoy. First of all, she kept calling her lady bits her "sex". Yes, it's anatomically correct. Yes it's a good word for it here and there but that was by far the most common one she used and it got really old REALLY fast. I started physically cringing when I heard it.
Maybe the author didn't want to use pussy or cunt or moist folds but surely she could have come up with some other terms? Especially when she had no problem using cock or dick. Along with that is she kept using like "medical" or technical terminology which just kept pulling me out of the story. I'm sorry, I just don't want to hear the word pre-ejaculate when they're getting down with the get down 🤣
And Emily kept talking about how the MMC was using just the right amount of suction when they kissed? WTF is that about? I mean I know they call it sucking face but I thought that was what teenagers did 🤣 or the kegeling your way to an orgasm? It was so weird
I also wish there had been more from Jameson's s point of view (but given how toxic he is maybe I'll take it back) In the almost 4 hours that I listened and approximately 12 chapters there was only three times that the male narrator spoke, which was especially frustrating because Emily was ridiculously immature.
Actually both of them were pretty immature. Emily's personality was inconsistent and childish. Jameson, as I mentioned is toxic and essentially stalking her through CCTV cameras, and it seemed like all they did was fight and then have sex and fight and have sex. (So maybe they really were literally sucking face lol)
Just .... no. 🤣
What is up with this author and why are all of her mmc so goofy
First of all, I have this rule that if I bothered finishing the book, I can't mindfully rate it lower than 3 stars. However, The Stopover deserves no more than 2 stars, and I have BEEF with it.
I'm usually a very good sport about many books, even some cheesy and questionable ones.
And I'm pretty sure I've read some T.L. Swan books before without any issue.
But, The Stopover.
The plot was promising. Emily, on a trip from London to NYC, gets upgraded, meets Jim, and during an unplanned stopover in Boston, they hook up, the hook up of their lives, we know the deal. A year later, she gets her dream job but surprise, surprise, the CEO is none other than Jim, or more exactly Jameson Miles.
Here's where everything goes to shit. They could have had a cute forbidden relationship, getting to know each other and overcoming their different backgrounds. NO!
Jameson is an entitled, self-centered, condescending asshole who'll get anything he desires. He insults the FMC anytime he's a little stressed, calls her a bitch, and uses her for sex 24/7 (and I'm pretty sure they don't know anything about each other except for their bodies... which would be fine for a smut novella, not a full-on office romance book)! He even destroys her around 80% of the book and comes back trying to "be friends" and wonders why she's angry at him. And God is he controlling, like toxic controlling, no sexy alpha male controlling.
And Emily is no better. She's moralizing her friend Aaron about his relationship, but she's ready to lick crumbs off the floor if Jameson leaves them. And she's jealous, with reasons since Asshole is kind of in a relationship plus fucking his masseuse in the beginning, but she's really jealous, like even when he could be going to prison, Emily is there calling non-stop all "I love you, please believe me, it's a misunderstanding blablabla." Girl! Stop making this about you and let him deal with the PRISON issue first, please...
60% of the book is them arguing and insulting each other while fucking in between, like teenagers creating problems to exist. And the other 40% is them still arguing and snapping at each other, shit going down, no communication, Jameson blaming then hurting Emily (same as when Josh fucked Jules just before getting rid of her. IYKYK) and Emily only focusing on her feelings. And when Emily FINALLY takes her independence, he's the one focusing on his feelings only, coming back like he's now the one ready to lick the crumbs off the floor... stating that they are fate and even though he apologized and she told him countless times to fuck off, he won't stop pursuing her ever because they're meant to be. His grovelling has nothing on Alex and Ava, his apology being:
«My job is to look after you and make the hard calls, ones that you can't make for yourself.» Bitch. He also wants to fuck her as an apology, but thank God she did not let him off the hook so easily (at first, because after...):
«"The morning you left after the second stopover, you broke something between us. I have never been so upset in all of my life. It was devastating for me. Having sex with you is the very last thing that I want to do." "Em, I couldn't talk to you because it killed me to push you away. I was battling myself over it."». Sure, it makes everything (your BIG betrayal) better, asshole! AND THEN! When she's on her way to forgiveness, he gives her an ultimatum. GAAAH!! I hate this man.
So yes, I didn't dislike the book in itself, I despised the characters, which was a first.
So, no hate against T.L. Swan! But I would not recommend this particular book.
Side note: at least when Josh fucked Jules and dumped her like trash, it was obvious he was mad. The sex was rough and angry. I barely forgave him for that, but at least he was somewhat upfront. Jameson, on the other hand, was full on "let's replay our sweet meet-cute, MAKE LOVE (not fuck), and then I'll dump you because no good reason truthfully." I do not forgive him.
I'm usually a very good sport about many books, even some cheesy and questionable ones.
And I'm pretty sure I've read some T.L. Swan books before without any issue.
But, The Stopover.
The plot was promising. Emily, on a trip from London to NYC, gets upgraded, meets Jim, and during an unplanned stopover in Boston, they hook up, the hook up of their lives, we know the deal. A year later, she gets her dream job but surprise, surprise, the CEO is none other than Jim, or more exactly Jameson Miles.
Here's where everything goes to shit. They could have had a cute forbidden relationship, getting to know each other and overcoming their different backgrounds. NO!
Jameson is an entitled, self-centered, condescending asshole who'll get anything he desires. He insults the FMC anytime he's a little stressed, calls her a bitch, and uses her for sex 24/7 (and I'm pretty sure they don't know anything about each other except for their bodies... which would be fine for a smut novella, not a full-on office romance book)! He even destroys her around 80% of the book and comes back trying to "be friends" and wonders why she's angry at him. And God is he controlling, like toxic controlling, no sexy alpha male controlling.
And Emily is no better. She's moralizing her friend Aaron about his relationship, but she's ready to lick crumbs off the floor if Jameson leaves them. And she's jealous, with reasons since Asshole is kind of in a relationship plus fucking his masseuse in the beginning, but she's really jealous, like even when he could be going to prison, Emily is there calling non-stop all "I love you, please believe me, it's a misunderstanding blablabla." Girl! Stop making this about you and let him deal with the PRISON issue first, please...
60% of the book is them arguing and insulting each other while fucking in between, like teenagers creating problems to exist. And the other 40% is them still arguing and snapping at each other, shit going down, no communication, Jameson blaming then hurting Emily (same as when Josh fucked Jules just before getting rid of her. IYKYK) and Emily only focusing on her feelings. And when Emily FINALLY takes her independence, he's the one focusing on his feelings only, coming back like he's now the one ready to lick the crumbs off the floor... stating that they are fate and even though he apologized and she told him countless times to fuck off, he won't stop pursuing her ever because they're meant to be. His grovelling has nothing on Alex and Ava, his apology being:
«My job is to look after you and make the hard calls, ones that you can't make for yourself.» Bitch. He also wants to fuck her as an apology, but thank God she did not let him off the hook so easily (at first, because after...):
«"The morning you left after the second stopover, you broke something between us. I have never been so upset in all of my life. It was devastating for me. Having sex with you is the very last thing that I want to do." "Em, I couldn't talk to you because it killed me to push you away. I was battling myself over it."». Sure, it makes everything (your BIG betrayal) better, asshole! AND THEN! When she's on her way to forgiveness, he gives her an ultimatum. GAAAH!! I hate this man.
So yes, I didn't dislike the book in itself, I despised the characters, which was a first.
So, no hate against T.L. Swan! But I would not recommend this particular book.
Side note: at least when Josh fucked Jules and dumped her like trash, it was obvious he was mad. The sex was rough and angry. I barely forgave him for that, but at least he was somewhat upfront. Jameson, on the other hand, was full on "let's replay our sweet meet-cute, MAKE LOVE (not fuck), and then I'll dump you because no good reason truthfully." I do not forgive him.