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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
medium-paced
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
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:
Complicated
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
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
This was cute and an incredible slow burn of a romance. There isn’t that much conflict other than unknown expectations of where they will end up with Row planning to go to London at the end of the year. If anything, I think it could have been slightly shorter, but I did love it still.
As a personal mistake I read this second in the series after reading Wildest Dreams (I happened to see it recommended so I assumed I could jump into book 2). I regret that since it did ruin a small reveal that looked like it was supposed to have a bigger emotional impact to the first book. Essentially, I’d highly suggest reading this series in order for full enjoyment since the stories are so interconnected by character relationships.
Cal being super clumsy was cute in theory but ended up feeling a little awkward at times. Cal would internally talk about how clumsy she was before doing something dumb instead of just doing the thing naturally. The book also kept calling her flighty, but there weren’t any examples of that. I wouldn’t call her flighty just because of her distrust of men due to past trauma. Flighty is like not sticking around when things get hard or not showing up when you say you will be somewhere.
Row was so sweet and absolutely obsessed with Cal from when they were kids. Cal comes to that realization later, but he does so many little acts of service for her unprompted. Him going above and beyond at every possible option was crazy. The flipping back and forth in time to get the full history of what happened between Cal and Row was fun.
The book was a little too long for what it was trying to do. I think it was a slow burn due to pacing rather than simmering tensions. There were points where I just wanted the story to move along. It took about 200 pages for Cal and Row to finally have a conversation about having a crush on each other.
I was kind of frustrated the the contract with Tate ended up not even being a big deal at all. It felt like that was building up to be so much more and then kind of fell flat. I did absolutely love the romance side of the plot which was the main focus of the book, obviously. I was just hoping there would be a little more to the subplot of Tate’s contract and how the town reacted. It felt anticlimatic.
The Stan parody at the town meeting KILLED me. The pop culture references throughout were pretty funny.
As a personal mistake I read this second in the series after reading Wildest Dreams (I happened to see it recommended so I assumed I could jump into book 2). I regret that since it did ruin a small reveal that looked like it was supposed to have a bigger emotional impact to the first book. Essentially, I’d highly suggest reading this series in order for full enjoyment since the stories are so interconnected by character relationships.
Cal being super clumsy was cute in theory but ended up feeling a little awkward at times. Cal would internally talk about how clumsy she was before doing something dumb instead of just doing the thing naturally. The book also kept calling her flighty, but there weren’t any examples of that. I wouldn’t call her flighty just because of her distrust of men due to past trauma. Flighty is like not sticking around when things get hard or not showing up when you say you will be somewhere.
Row was so sweet and absolutely obsessed with Cal from when they were kids. Cal comes to that realization later, but he does so many little acts of service for her unprompted. Him going above and beyond at every possible option was crazy. The flipping back and forth in time to get the full history of what happened between Cal and Row was fun.
The book was a little too long for what it was trying to do. I think it was a slow burn due to pacing rather than simmering tensions. There were points where I just wanted the story to move along. It took about 200 pages for Cal and Row to finally have a conversation about having a crush on each other.
I was kind of frustrated the the contract with Tate ended up not even being a big deal at all. It felt like that was building up to be so much more and then kind of fell flat. I did absolutely love the romance side of the plot which was the main focus of the book, obviously. I was just hoping there would be a little more to the subplot of Tate’s contract and how the town reacted. It felt anticlimatic.
The Stan parody at the town meeting KILLED me. The pop culture references throughout were pretty funny.
I loved how romantic and attentive was Brose with Cal. Loved the ending.
emotional
hopeful
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
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
sad
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
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy
This book was definitely the worst book I’ve read all year and probably last year too. No offense to the author, I’m sorry.
This book just felt poorly written, drawn out. So many scenes and so much stuff made zero sense.
The spicy scenes were downright the worst ones I’ve ever read before. Him finishing in his pants just because he went down on her? Her almost doing the same thing to him the next morning, where she managed to get his pants off without him waking up? The candy cane? Zucchini? Jesus Christ.
The town forgiving him in three seconds flat? Her being afraid of men when women were the ones who assaulted (not sexually like it makes it seem in the start of the book), her in the woods? Bullying beginning in preschool?
Someone putting a dead coyote in Row’s house that was being built?
How do we have a mayor who is 26?
That’s not even all of it that was awful and made no sense.
This is one book I would never recommend reading.
This book just felt poorly written, drawn out. So many scenes and so much stuff made zero sense.
The spicy scenes were downright the worst ones I’ve ever read before. Him finishing in his pants just because he went down on her? Her almost doing the same thing to him the next morning, where she managed to get his pants off without him waking up? The candy cane? Zucchini? Jesus Christ.
The town forgiving him in three seconds flat? Her being afraid of men when women were the ones who assaulted (not sexually like it makes it seem in the start of the book), her in the woods? Bullying beginning in preschool?
Someone putting a dead coyote in Row’s house that was being built?
How do we have a mayor who is 26?
That’s not even all of it that was awful and made no sense.
This is one book I would never recommend reading.