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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was a well written story and I enjoyed it for the most part. I didn’t get how he went from hating her to loving her with nothing really changing between them. I liked that they both cared for the kids and wanted what was best for them. I liked sunny’s strength and energy. Her mom was a bit annoying but for some families her mom is what people have to deal with in real life.
Just ok
Not as captivating as the first book. Not as much chemistry as the first couple. This book was also about 50 pages longer than it needed to be.
Not as captivating as the first book. Not as much chemistry as the first couple. This book was also about 50 pages longer than it needed to be.
Pretty Good
I enjoyed reading Sunny and Darrel’s love story. It was different storyline from the first book with Kenya and Alistair. I think I enjoyed Kenya and Alistair’s story more, it this still held my interest and kept me wanting more. I am looking forward to reading about Max and Dawn.
I also enjoyed Bailey and Michael in the story as well. They helped to add to Sunny and Darrel’s story line. Seeing all the characters interact with each other from book to book is also a plus.
I enjoyed reading Sunny and Darrel’s love story. It was different storyline from the first book with Kenya and Alistair. I think I enjoyed Kenya and Alistair’s story more, it this still held my interest and kept me wanting more. I am looking forward to reading about Max and Dawn.
I also enjoyed Bailey and Michael in the story as well. They helped to add to Sunny and Darrel’s story line. Seeing all the characters interact with each other from book to book is also a plus.
Something about these books. This was better than the last one IMO but it was still missing something so I can't give it a 4. 3.5 stars.
Feel like we went from ‘they dislike each other’ to ‘marry me’ in 20sec. wild
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Just an average book, I can’t lie the mum was jarring me out the whole time and Darrell was being annoying to. I only liked the kids really. Also miscommunication coming from a psychologist??? bro your whole job is to talk and yet you find that hard to do?
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This isn't as baffling a premise for a romance novel as Cocky Romance, but it's still so strange to me. The book keeps alluding to Darrel's history with Sunny and his relationship with his old Professor, so you'd think the final reveals would explain some great aspect of his character. Instead, I just became more certain this guy is... kind of an obsessed loser.
As nonsensical as I found the idea of a school giving a student enough time to set up a projector (doubt they commonly used them for pep rallies) and screen a film (who had time to edit that?) humiliating one of the students, Sunny did so because she thought the guy had sent her deranged photoshopped (or simply taped?) pictures with her head on naked bodies. That is plenty creepy. Combined with her history of being bullied, it's not the plot I would come up with, but it makes sense why she wanted to hurt him.
This history being the set up for why Darrel was so awful to her and eventually being the set up for a romance is kinda crazy. There's nothing romantic about that to me. That Sunny thinks Darrel still liking her after that is a sign he truly loves her is a bit delusional. Add to this, Darrel says she's the only woman he ever loved. He really just obsessed over this girl he only knew for part of a semester, a girl he admits to having followed around and spied on, and he never moved on. When he showed up at her parents' house I just rolled my eyes. My guy, let it go.
Sunny is a character I would've liked more if I didn't think she had this strange desire to mother everyone in her life. When she took care of Kenya, she was the protective mama bear. It made sense because they'd known each other for a long time. In this book, she just leaps right into taking care of Michael and Bailey and then seems completely okay with tying herself to them forever before she'd even gone on a date with Darrel. She's also hellbent on doing things for Darrel after he treated her like shit, told her to go away plenty times, and <i>literally bodyslammed her</i> at the bachelor party. Not super romantic.
Sidenote, didn't think the bachelor party was a cute idea. Not sure why Kenya thought it'd be fun to dance in front of Allistair's friends. Also, made them seem like the kind of couple that didn't want the other to have a party alone.
The only things I enjoyed here were the brief times we see Kenya and Sunny together and some of the scenes with her and the boys. I still think she's weird for basically slipping into that motherly role so quickly, though. I think Darrel's claim he really wanted to marry her (less than like a day after he'd ever even called her his girlfriend, mind you) is reasonably questionable when the book confirms he's completely hopeless at anything that isn't psychology. Most of his "parenting" moments are him reminding the boys to do their homework. He can't even make scrambled eggs properly. There's a vision of his future with Sunny and it's her making him food.
Some random things that were fascinating to me. Kenya mentions running something by her friends: in her book, it seemed Kenya's only friend is Sunny. Sunny doesn't seem to have any friends outside of Kenya. Darrel talks about Max being a jerk but seemed to have spent some time with him. Can confirm, Max is a jerk. The mentions of prejudice and having Sunny defend being rich were choices. Confusing ones to me, but choices all the same. I honestly think social workers get a bad rap in this series. Only once did they do something right and that was in Fiery Romance and that social worker quickly started making terrible, biased choices eventually, anyway.
Of the 6 I've read, it's somewhat more likable than Cocky Romance but only because there's even less of a way to romanticize a romance wherein the male lead first met the female lead when he knocked on her door to pressure her into getting an abortion. That being said, the patterns in these stories are clear to see. All of them involve women taking care of children and only twice was it their own children.