Reviews - The Dead Romantics

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The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston

4.01 AVERAGE

leahleon14's review against another edition

4.0

Audio. Rounded up to 4

fullmachine's review against another edition

5.0

this ripped my heart out and sewed it back together.
so beautiful

ematkm77's review against another edition

1.25

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

This book was dead on arrival for me. Couldn't help myself... It was 100% plot driven, by which I mean that everything any character did was simply to enhance the plot, and not because they were being rational humans or developed characters. A GIANT tragedy happens (for the majority of characters) early on in the book, yet they all seem fine, not grieving at all, and instead are focused on building up the confidence of the FMC... while she is more focused on how her ex from a year ago betrayed her and "love isn't real" than the giant tragedy that JUST occurred in her life.
Also, the timing of the first semi-steamy scene was incredibly icky. I was literally cringing and couldn't wait for it to be over. That probably wasn't helped by the fact that the main characters weren't developed into real humans, so I felt absolutely zero chemistry between them, and didn't care whether they got together or not.
Finished this book just so I could write this review. Yuck.