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3.73 AVERAGE
3.73 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-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
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Death of parent
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
With my one star rated books im usually actively angry throughout reading them but with this i felt mainly boredom. It wasnt until after when i started thinking about what i read that made me realise how little I actually liked.
➜ First of all I did like the way the boat floating out to sea was set up. It was a miscommunication that actually made sense to me to end up with the boat tied to itself. I think it was extremely necessary for this to be 'plausible' to actually get the story going. Especially considering how much we have to suspend our disbelief for the rest of the story.
➜ The plot is a complete letdown. I want to know why the author came up with them to be lost at sea for 12 days? To me it felt a bit long as there wasn't much variation for them to do. Most of it was just him finding something to make for dinner, them plugging up holes in the boat, and then trauma dumping. I get that being lost at sea would be extremely repetitive but it's like the author set up all these potential days for something to happen and then just fumbled.
A lot of the time, the characters were in peril and it was scary I'll admit, but then also completely and entirely of their own making? Like her cutting his side open while unskillfully using a knife while drunk was ridiculous, it getting infected and washing it with rum even worse. And then they would constantly jump onto ladders (MFC not telling the MMC she was scared of heights beforehand was so stupid), go into the sea and put their bodies under strain for no reason. I still don't understand what the point of those days on the oil rig was for? Was it to give readers different scenery? A false sense of hope I guess?
Also for all the trauma dumping they did, I don't even really feel like I know the characters. So even that felt like a waste of time. It felt like a perfectly refined and thought-out trauma dump, something you would tell someone to still portray a specific image of you. So even though what they were saying was messy and unfortunate, it still didn't feel raw to me if that makes sense.
➜ I dont get why every character was presented this way but all of them seemed horrible. I don't know if the author was going for realistic but then we ended up with this. Now I usually hate when people say this but I genuinely think most of these characters need therapy because they seriously have some complexes and set ways of thinking that are dysfunctional.
➜ The MFC has clearly been damaged by life and its made her an extremely negative and guarded person. She's quick to be suspicious of everyone and chooses to see everything as confirming her already fixed mindset. Shes insufferable right off the bat by refusing to believe she could possibly be wrong about the boat no longer belonging to her best friend, and refuses to get off of it. It put me off her right away for not responding in a normal way and instead being stubborn and weird. She does constantly have a woe is me attitude about herself which I say does improve by the end i suppose.
I think the main issue with her is she gives everything she has to her best friend and best friends daughter (described as niece) while leaving nothing for herself, so she has really low self esteem. I often felt put off by how she describes her relationship with niece as it almost seemed possessive, and even though she never outright said it but it came across as she kind of didnt trust her best friend to raise her? It gave overbearing mother rather than supportive reliable aunt. I mean come on the girl was 4 and they still put a baby monitor on while she slept because the adults found it 'comforting' to watch her sleep.
Her sister is a bit of a weird one like okay I obviously feel sympathy for getting pregnant on a one night stand and not knowing what to do. But she was 24 (okay still fine on its own), but she got pregnant by an 18 year old...(who'd only been that age for a week might I add)...I think at this point you need to be a bigger person and sort of look into the future to understand the consequences of not even giving him a chance to step and and be in the childs life. And then using it as an example of how all men are shitty for the next 5 years like seriously?
The book did portray all men to be cheating, untrustworhy, scum but then portayed Zeke (before the big reveal) to be this angel which i thought was a bit weird. Thats another thing I didn't like about the MFC is that she wouldn't even have the decency as a person to get to know her best friends boyfriends because she 'knew they would all walk out anyway'. Im sorry but it might be a bit of a two way street here. She's literally living and 'invading' the couples space by living with the best friend, so maybe her being cold and distant could have been a reason for them to feel unwelcome and leave.
➜ Now I think the MMC had the bigger issues but he canonically had been to therapy so I think that's a bit better. I do take issue with this book completely glossing over the fact he was dating a 28 year old when he was 16!!! Like it was so downplayed until I read reviews after id finished id completely forgotten about it and I was like omg. Then he had this whole thing that he slept with loads of women because sex was the only thing he felt good at after being overshadowed by his siblings his whole life. Um again like he went to therapy and all and the MFC was apparently his first in a while but like wow thats a lot I feel for a romance book like this to tackle. Especially the fact that he seemed to be taken advantage of by older women a lot.
Then they had this whole you're not my real dad storyline which was sort of the crux of the boat thing. TBH I wasn't interested it in that much I didn't really feel the emotion and longing to find out the truth that we were meant to. However I don't really see how it instead being the brother whos the affair child is like a good twist? Because the MMC still had these feelings of inadequacy and isolation that he thought was coming from that but now has an unknown source. I guess more therapy is needed there. The MMC's family seemed horrible they were described as having a 'stiff upper lip' but in reality I think it was dysfunctional. Especially the mum who apparently wasn't one to say I love you or be that caring. Ofc the kids are gonna turn out trying to one up each other for approval oml.
➜ Then the epilogue rounded off the bad book by also being bad. We never got to see how it was revealed to the Niece that Zeke was her dad. What would her reaction to that be? Especially considering she was only 6 in the epilogue? Then I had no real emotions about the MFC being pregnant but im glad they're able to be back on water again ig.
➜ First of all I did like the way the boat floating out to sea was set up. It was a miscommunication that actually made sense to me to end up with the boat tied to itself. I think it was extremely necessary for this to be 'plausible' to actually get the story going. Especially considering how much we have to suspend our disbelief for the rest of the story.
➜ The plot is a complete letdown. I want to know why the author came up with them to be lost at sea for 12 days? To me it felt a bit long as there wasn't much variation for them to do. Most of it was just him finding something to make for dinner, them plugging up holes in the boat, and then trauma dumping. I get that being lost at sea would be extremely repetitive but it's like the author set up all these potential days for something to happen and then just fumbled.
A lot of the time, the characters were in peril and it was scary I'll admit, but then also completely and entirely of their own making? Like her cutting his side open while unskillfully using a knife while drunk was ridiculous, it getting infected and washing it with rum even worse. And then they would constantly jump onto ladders (MFC not telling the MMC she was scared of heights beforehand was so stupid), go into the sea and put their bodies under strain for no reason. I still don't understand what the point of those days on the oil rig was for? Was it to give readers different scenery? A false sense of hope I guess?
Also for all the trauma dumping they did, I don't even really feel like I know the characters. So even that felt like a waste of time. It felt like a perfectly refined and thought-out trauma dump, something you would tell someone to still portray a specific image of you. So even though what they were saying was messy and unfortunate, it still didn't feel raw to me if that makes sense.
➜ I dont get why every character was presented this way but all of them seemed horrible. I don't know if the author was going for realistic but then we ended up with this. Now I usually hate when people say this but I genuinely think most of these characters need therapy because they seriously have some complexes and set ways of thinking that are dysfunctional.
➜ The MFC has clearly been damaged by life and its made her an extremely negative and guarded person. She's quick to be suspicious of everyone and chooses to see everything as confirming her already fixed mindset. Shes insufferable right off the bat by refusing to believe she could possibly be wrong about the boat no longer belonging to her best friend, and refuses to get off of it. It put me off her right away for not responding in a normal way and instead being stubborn and weird. She does constantly have a woe is me attitude about herself which I say does improve by the end i suppose.
I think the main issue with her is she gives everything she has to her best friend and best friends daughter (described as niece) while leaving nothing for herself, so she has really low self esteem. I often felt put off by how she describes her relationship with niece as it almost seemed possessive, and even though she never outright said it but it came across as she kind of didnt trust her best friend to raise her? It gave overbearing mother rather than supportive reliable aunt. I mean come on the girl was 4 and they still put a baby monitor on while she slept because the adults found it 'comforting' to watch her sleep.
Her sister is a bit of a weird one like okay I obviously feel sympathy for getting pregnant on a one night stand and not knowing what to do. But she was 24 (okay still fine on its own), but she got pregnant by an 18 year old...(who'd only been that age for a week might I add)...I think at this point you need to be a bigger person and sort of look into the future to understand the consequences of not even giving him a chance to step and and be in the childs life. And then using it as an example of how all men are shitty for the next 5 years like seriously?
The book did portray all men to be cheating, untrustworhy, scum but then portayed Zeke (before the big reveal) to be this angel which i thought was a bit weird. Thats another thing I didn't like about the MFC is that she wouldn't even have the decency as a person to get to know her best friends boyfriends because she 'knew they would all walk out anyway'. Im sorry but it might be a bit of a two way street here. She's literally living and 'invading' the couples space by living with the best friend, so maybe her being cold and distant could have been a reason for them to feel unwelcome and leave.
➜ Now I think the MMC had the bigger issues but he canonically had been to therapy so I think that's a bit better. I do take issue with this book completely glossing over the fact he was dating a 28 year old when he was 16!!! Like it was so downplayed until I read reviews after id finished id completely forgotten about it and I was like omg. Then he had this whole thing that he slept with loads of women because sex was the only thing he felt good at after being overshadowed by his siblings his whole life. Um again like he went to therapy and all and the MFC was apparently his first in a while but like wow thats a lot I feel for a romance book like this to tackle. Especially the fact that he seemed to be taken advantage of by older women a lot.
Then they had this whole you're not my real dad storyline which was sort of the crux of the boat thing. TBH I wasn't interested it in that much I didn't really feel the emotion and longing to find out the truth that we were meant to. However I don't really see how it instead being the brother whos the affair child is like a good twist? Because the MMC still had these feelings of inadequacy and isolation that he thought was coming from that but now has an unknown source. I guess more therapy is needed there. The MMC's family seemed horrible they were described as having a 'stiff upper lip' but in reality I think it was dysfunctional. Especially the mum who apparently wasn't one to say I love you or be that caring. Ofc the kids are gonna turn out trying to one up each other for approval oml.
➜ Then the epilogue rounded off the bad book by also being bad. We never got to see how it was revealed to the Niece that Zeke was her dad. What would her reaction to that be? Especially considering she was only 6 in the epilogue? Then I had no real emotions about the MFC being pregnant but im glad they're able to be back on water again ig.
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I enjoyed this!