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keikeu's review
2.0
full disclosure: i gave up reading and switched to skimming somewhere around the second chapter.
i've been reading books recommended through amazon across genres mostly as research for my own writing, so i went into this book not expecting much since erotica usually gets boring and fast for me; i just didn't expect fast to be within the first two chapters. here's the thing. people have sex, for zero reasons beyond just getting their rocks off. but a book generally has a purpose for being written and this is clearly just a novella that exists to encase a bunch of sex scenes. the writing isn't actually bad, if kind of contrived, so i can't in good conscience give it less than two stars, but there's so little substance to the actual characters and plot. i had zero interest in either protagonist and they felt less like characters and more like a pair of barbies being smashed together for the hell of it. there's no actual chemistry between them, and no real chemistry within the writing itself, either. i've read enough and written enough to know that it isn't that hard to cobble together a little bit of a spark between two people.
it's not bad writing. it's just boring.
i've been reading books recommended through amazon across genres mostly as research for my own writing, so i went into this book not expecting much since erotica usually gets boring and fast for me; i just didn't expect fast to be within the first two chapters. here's the thing. people have sex, for zero reasons beyond just getting their rocks off. but a book generally has a purpose for being written and this is clearly just a novella that exists to encase a bunch of sex scenes. the writing isn't actually bad, if kind of contrived, so i can't in good conscience give it less than two stars, but there's so little substance to the actual characters and plot. i had zero interest in either protagonist and they felt less like characters and more like a pair of barbies being smashed together for the hell of it. there's no actual chemistry between them, and no real chemistry within the writing itself, either. i've read enough and written enough to know that it isn't that hard to cobble together a little bit of a spark between two people.
it's not bad writing. it's just boring.
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