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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
What the hell was this?š
Crew and Wren have a ton of angst and pull no punches when it comes to owning a heart. Murphy continues to seduce emotions with emotional stories, flawed characters and irresistible romance. A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime is a journey of complexities that take a forceful approach to heartache by speaking the language of the soul.
Crew Lancaster seemingly has everything he could ever want. He rules the school that bares his name, heās the youngest son so pressure is off from his family and he can get pretty much any girl he wants. The problem is the one girl he canāt get, Wren Beaumont.
Wren Beaumont is the good girl of Lancaster Prep. She prances around the school with her purity ring like a Disney star and legions of adoring underclassman girls. The girls want to be her, the guys want to get in her pants and all she wants is to finally make her dad proud of her. She also wants to avoid Crew at all costs as heās constantly glowering at her full of hatred she doesnāt feel sheās earned.
When a class project with assigned partners forces these two together they realize they arenāt as different as they thought. When all the walls come down they fall head first into a love neither one of them saw coming. Will this be the kind of first love that lasts? Or the kind that burns you up and leaves you in ashes?
You guys this book is everything. This book is that feeling you get when you fall in love for the first time. You know that all consuming, canāt sleep, canāt eat, will spend exorbitant amounts of money to show your affection because you canāt articulate all your feelings and you have more money than Godā¦.wait, actually I think that last part is just Crew.
I have to be honest that I didnāt love Wren at first. She was very judgmental and stuck up but she grew so much and by the end I loved the strong woman she became. Obviously Iām in love with Crew. Heās so different from his cousin Whit but that obsessive personality is strong in the Lancaster line. Heās determined to win over Wren and when he does heāll do anything to convince her that heās the only one for her. Prepare to swoon and swoon hard over another Lancaster. I know I did.
Thanks so much to Monica for providing me with an early copy to review! I canāt wait to read more about these crazy Lancasterās.
Rating: 4.5
Wren Beaumont is the good girl of Lancaster Prep. She prances around the school with her purity ring like a Disney star and legions of adoring underclassman girls. The girls want to be her, the guys want to get in her pants and all she wants is to finally make her dad proud of her. She also wants to avoid Crew at all costs as heās constantly glowering at her full of hatred she doesnāt feel sheās earned.
When a class project with assigned partners forces these two together they realize they arenāt as different as they thought. When all the walls come down they fall head first into a love neither one of them saw coming. Will this be the kind of first love that lasts? Or the kind that burns you up and leaves you in ashes?
You guys this book is everything. This book is that feeling you get when you fall in love for the first time. You know that all consuming, canāt sleep, canāt eat, will spend exorbitant amounts of money to show your affection because you canāt articulate all your feelings and you have more money than Godā¦.wait, actually I think that last part is just Crew.
I have to be honest that I didnāt love Wren at first. She was very judgmental and stuck up but she grew so much and by the end I loved the strong woman she became. Obviously Iām in love with Crew. Heās so different from his cousin Whit but that obsessive personality is strong in the Lancaster line. Heās determined to win over Wren and when he does heāll do anything to convince her that heās the only one for her. Prepare to swoon and swoon hard over another Lancaster. I know I did.
Thanks so much to Monica for providing me with an early copy to review! I canāt wait to read more about these crazy Lancasterās.
Rating: 4.5
dark
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this book brings women's rights back several years.
i went back and forth whether it was worth the brain cells to write this review, but somehow i saw 3 recommendations for it in an hour on my explore page...so here we are!
it's also the last day of the year, and we're leaving all our negative energy back in 2022 and that includes this. freaking. book.
the few posts i've seen have romanticized this book for being a "fun good girl x bad boy romanceā with the added bonus of a boarding school setting and overall rich kid energy.
in reality, you get the cringiest...no *creepiest* romance?? between our two main characters, wren and crew.
wrenās entire personality is being a virgin. she is a high school girl who is infantilized by everyone around her, and the author intentionally slut shames every other girl to get this point across.
crew wants to be an alpha male so badā¦heās 5 seconds away from turning into a werewolf. his obsession with wren is all centered around wanting to ācorruptā herā¦WHAT.
the romance between the two is not healthy, and it baffles me that this book is starting to trend amongst teens and be pitched as a spicy rom-com.
also, if a boy ever tries to shove a lollipop into your vagina, RUN. preferably to a therapist or police station. it is not sexyā¦it is a bacteria infection waiting to happen.
and letās not forget that one of the teachers at this prestigious boarding school is a known pedo/phile, yet no one does anything about it??
i donāt even know when to stop pointing out the red flags bc this whole book is little red riding hood. letās stop romanticizing toxic relationships (and books) in 2023.
āā
"it's so bad, i want to give you a zero, but that's not possible, so i give you a one"
INITAL THOUGHTS: if you ignore every single problematic sentence in this book and use only one brain cell to marathon you to the end, itās honestly not that bad
i went back and forth whether it was worth the brain cells to write this review, but somehow i saw 3 recommendations for it in an hour on my explore page...so here we are!
it's also the last day of the year, and we're leaving all our negative energy back in 2022 and that includes this. freaking. book.
the few posts i've seen have romanticized this book for being a "fun good girl x bad boy romanceā with the added bonus of a boarding school setting and overall rich kid energy.
in reality, you get the cringiest...no *creepiest* romance?? between our two main characters, wren and crew.
wrenās entire personality is being a virgin. she is a high school girl who is infantilized by everyone around her, and the author intentionally slut shames every other girl to get this point across.
crew wants to be an alpha male so badā¦heās 5 seconds away from turning into a werewolf. his obsession with wren is all centered around wanting to ācorruptā herā¦WHAT.
the romance between the two is not healthy, and it baffles me that this book is starting to trend amongst teens and be pitched as a spicy rom-com.
also, if a boy ever tries to shove a lollipop into your vagina, RUN. preferably to a therapist or police station. it is not sexyā¦it is a bacteria infection waiting to happen.
and letās not forget that one of the teachers at this prestigious boarding school is a known pedo/phile, yet no one does anything about it??
i donāt even know when to stop pointing out the red flags bc this whole book is little red riding hood. letās stop romanticizing toxic relationships (and books) in 2023.
āā
"it's so bad, i want to give you a zero, but that's not possible, so i give you a one"
INITAL THOUGHTS: if you ignore every single problematic sentence in this book and use only one brain cell to marathon you to the end, itās honestly not that bad
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes