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3.66 AVERAGE
Rating: 4/5 stars!
Review: this book had my emotions all over the place. I was trying to find out what the hell happened to their marriage because I loved Nate from the start. Even when he was being an asshole! Finn was so damn tempting and charming that it was hard not to like him. Sadie was an idiot! Honestly wanted to throw my kindle at her. Ugh! Why are woman so damn complicated??? I was excited to read this book after seeing so many great reviews on goodreads and im happy I did. I really enjoyed it. Not sure why some people weren't a big fan of the ending cause I was like "fuck yeah!" The ending was perfection for me and made my heart melt. This story shows you what it means to have true love! It may not be perfect but love never is! ❤️ well done Jessica
Review: this book had my emotions all over the place. I was trying to find out what the hell happened to their marriage because I loved Nate from the start. Even when he was being an asshole! Finn was so damn tempting and charming that it was hard not to like him. Sadie was an idiot! Honestly wanted to throw my kindle at her. Ugh! Why are woman so damn complicated??? I was excited to read this book after seeing so many great reviews on goodreads and im happy I did. I really enjoyed it. Not sure why some people weren't a big fan of the ending cause I was like "fuck yeah!" The ending was perfection for me and made my heart melt. This story shows you what it means to have true love! It may not be perfect but love never is! ❤️ well done Jessica
Ok so I liked this book but I hated Sadie. She was so freaking selfish. I felt bad for both Finn and especially her Husband Nathan. Yeah he shut her out but that doesn’t give you the right to cheat. They both lacked proper communication skills. All of their problems could have been easily resolved with them talking. I don’t know how he was even able to forgive her after that kind of betrayal. This wasn’t just a fling with Finn. She cared for him and at one point was going to choose him. Sadie played the victim in my opinion. Poor me poor me. Ugh she deserves to be alone. Poor Nathan is settling with her.
Li esse livro depois de [b:The Cityscape Affair Trilogy|54352700|The Cityscape Affair Trilogy (Cityscape Affair, #1-3)|Jessica Hawkins|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1593624687l/54352700._SY75_.jpg|27474852] pensando que me entregaria as mesmas emoções mas não foi 1% do que a trilogia foi. Tudo acontece muito rápido, ela ama o marido mas trai o marido em uma facilidade absurda e o outro cara se demonstra obcecado por ela em tão pouco tempo. Uma chatice, sinceramente. Fez pleno sentido ela terminar o livro com o marido mas na realidade acho que não mereceria ele não. 2 estrelas pois gosto da escrita da autora e ainda estou tentando achar livros delas que eu goste tanto quanto Cityscape Affair e White Monarch.
This was my fourth book I have read by Jessica and this one didnt disappoint either. I really enjoyed this story and it was just what I needed for a good romance emotional read. It had just enough steam to it and kept my attention throughout the whole book. I felt bad for Sadie and what she was going through with her relationship with Nathan. I really felt like he didnt care for her and just kept shutting her out. I could see why she turned to Finn to make her feel better and to feel wanted. They both needed it. The ending was okay. I was shocked to see what Sadie ended up choosing in the end and am curious to the man she didnt choose did with the rest of his life.. overall good read and I recommend reading her books! I definitely will be checking out the others in this series.
I absolutely LOVE this story! I couldn't put it down! It gutted me in the best way possible! What a read! This is my first Jessica Hawkins book and I can't wait to pick up another!
At about chapter three, I decided to check out some reviews on this book. The major consensus was (with all of the 4 and 5 star ratings) that Sadie is the worst! Pretty much everyone loved both Nathan and Finn, but they HATED Sadie. I constantly get annoyed with female main characters because of various reasons, but I am surprised to say that I really liked Sadie. I get 100% why most people felt badly towards her: she was selfish, cold, a cheater, etc... But, you know what I took away from her character???? She was HUMAN! I could relate to her in a lot of ways and I know that I am not a cold, selfish bitch. She was real and she had flaws and I loved it! I didn't always agree with her choices and actions, but deep down, she was just a person reacting to her surroundings and living her life in the only way that she could. There was something so touching about that to me.
This book hit a serious note with me on such a personal level. I got married at 18 and have been married for almost 13 years. We have watched couples around us crumble and fall apart and we are still standing strong. We hear from people that we are the couple that they want to be and we bask in that quite selfishly (I know I definitely do), but what people don't see are all the imperfections. They don't see the arguments and bad times. Sadie wanted people to think that their relationship was perfect. I think that she even wanted so badly to think that it was perfect that she stopped trying. She just went along in her daily life and let the current just take her. That's REAL. It happens. I don't condone cheating, but since this was a fictional book, I will admit that there was something about this affair, and everyone that it touched, that was incredibly sexy. Throughout the entirety of this book, she always maintained that her husband was the one she wanted. She just got a little lost.
While reading through the reviews, I saw that a lot of people were either upset with the ending or felt it was rushed. I, on the other hand, felt it was perfect. I think that I would have finished this book with a bad taste in my mouth if she hadn't chosen to stay with Nathan. And I have to say that while I liked Finn, I didn't like him nearly as much as Nathan. Maybe it is because I adore the institution of marriage, while at the same time, understanding that people are human beings with a normality to wandering eyes. Maybe its BECAUSE it is fiction that I can console myself with LOVING this book so much BECAUSE she stays with Nathan in the end.
Before I end my ramblings, I have to say that the sex in this book was super hot. It was definitely different than most stuff I read. The tension and the angst; the build up... it is what I live for. This book didn't disappoint. This is the first of Jessica Hawkins that I have ever read and I will be a fan for life.
Last thoughts:
* Sadie was just being her flawed but human self and while her choices weren't commendable, they were somewhat realistic. What would you do if the man you loved stopped being present in your marriage and wouldn't tell you why?
* Finn was so sweet and super sexy. I feel bad that in his mind, he was supposed to be the one who got the girl. He met her fist and he always had her in the back of his mind. But, unfortunately, fate wasn't on his side when it came to Sadie. The one thing that made me not like him as much was the fact that he did not really seem like a father or husband, and while he talked about his family a lot, it felt to me sort of like and out of sight out of mind thing.
* Nathan was it for me, really. Why is it that when the one we want pushes us away, we want them even more. In the parts where Sadie could see that he wasn't even really there even though he was right in front of her, AND that in his eyes she could tell he still wanted her sexually, that, to me, was simultaneously the sexiest and saddest thing. He needed better communication skills there for a while, but when he found out that she was having an affair, he maybe got a little taste of that same feeling he was putting her through... That fear of being dismissed by the one you love.
I feel better after getting this all out :)
This book hit a serious note with me on such a personal level. I got married at 18 and have been married for almost 13 years. We have watched couples around us crumble and fall apart and we are still standing strong. We hear from people that we are the couple that they want to be and we bask in that quite selfishly (I know I definitely do), but what people don't see are all the imperfections. They don't see the arguments and bad times. Sadie wanted people to think that their relationship was perfect. I think that she even wanted so badly to think that it was perfect that she stopped trying. She just went along in her daily life and let the current just take her. That's REAL. It happens. I don't condone cheating, but since this was a fictional book, I will admit that there was something about this affair, and everyone that it touched, that was incredibly sexy. Throughout the entirety of this book, she always maintained that her husband was the one she wanted. She just got a little lost.
While reading through the reviews, I saw that a lot of people were either upset with the ending or felt it was rushed. I, on the other hand, felt it was perfect. I think that I would have finished this book with a bad taste in my mouth if she hadn't chosen to stay with Nathan. And I have to say that while I liked Finn, I didn't like him nearly as much as Nathan. Maybe it is because I adore the institution of marriage, while at the same time, understanding that people are human beings with a normality to wandering eyes. Maybe its BECAUSE it is fiction that I can console myself with LOVING this book so much BECAUSE she stays with Nathan in the end.
Before I end my ramblings, I have to say that the sex in this book was super hot. It was definitely different than most stuff I read. The tension and the angst; the build up... it is what I live for. This book didn't disappoint. This is the first of Jessica Hawkins that I have ever read and I will be a fan for life.
Last thoughts:
* Sadie was just being her flawed but human self and while her choices weren't commendable, they were somewhat realistic. What would you do if the man you loved stopped being present in your marriage and wouldn't tell you why?
* Finn was so sweet and super sexy. I feel bad that in his mind, he was supposed to be the one who got the girl. He met her fist and he always had her in the back of his mind. But, unfortunately, fate wasn't on his side when it came to Sadie. The one thing that made me not like him as much was the fact that he did not really seem like a father or husband, and while he talked about his family a lot, it felt to me sort of like and out of sight out of mind thing.
* Nathan was it for me, really. Why is it that when the one we want pushes us away, we want them even more. In the parts where Sadie could see that he wasn't even really there even though he was right in front of her, AND that in his eyes she could tell he still wanted her sexually, that, to me, was simultaneously the sexiest and saddest thing. He needed better communication skills there for a while, but when he found out that she was having an affair, he maybe got a little taste of that same feeling he was putting her through... That fear of being dismissed by the one you love.
I feel better after getting this all out :)
So good!
I absolutely loved this story. After reading the reviews I thought I was going to be team Finn. But really throughout the story all I could do was root for Nathan and Sadie. They were perfect together and have an epic love story.
I absolutely loved this story. After reading the reviews I thought I was going to be team Finn. But really throughout the story all I could do was root for Nathan and Sadie. They were perfect together and have an epic love story.
Trigger warning: infidelity
I really liked Sadie in the beginning. As the story went on, she became more and more annoying. But there was a part of me that kept holding on!
There was so much angst and so much back and forth.
I definitely had a dude I was rooting for...Team Nathan!
****SPOILER ALERT****
The part of this story that REALLY irked me was how easily Nathan took her back. I get it, I really wanted them to work out. But everything happened way too easily for Sadie and I wish she would've suffered more consequences for her actions. In my opinion, the reason for her infidelity in no way justifies her actions (not that there is really ever a good reason to cheat).
I really liked Sadie in the beginning. As the story went on, she became more and more annoying. But there was a part of me that kept holding on!
There was so much angst and so much back and forth.
I definitely had a dude I was rooting for...Team Nathan!
****SPOILER ALERT****
The part of this story that REALLY irked me was how easily Nathan took her back. I get it, I really wanted them to work out. But everything happened way too easily for Sadie and I wish she would've suffered more consequences for her actions. In my opinion, the reason for her infidelity in no way justifies her actions (not that there is really ever a good reason to cheat).
There are sort of spoilers, but if you're on the fence about this book because of the love triangle, definitely read it anyway. I feel its redeemable by the end :) great writing, great story!
So I was a bit pessimistic about this book, mainly because I read a couple of reviews that weren't loving it because of the triangle. Let me just admit fully that all three main characters annoyed the cheez-it's out of me for MOST of the book. That being said I also loved that they were all real flawed humans, and not just perfect and movie star hot people with perfect personalities.
Sadie - the most selfish and dim witted person ever. Seriously how do you not just ASK your husband if he is cheating??? If I thought my husband was cheating I would yes look for clues first, but after the bowling alley she should have asked. Come on!!!! Luckily she semi redeems herself by the end. KIND OF!
Nate - the most passive aggressive idiot ever. Ok I wish I had written more horrible things about him before the end, because I really hated him until he said the whole "I will fight for you...." Whatever speak, because I literally cried because forgiveness when you're in love is my weak spot.
Finn - he's like a big ass creepy lurker. Ok maybe not. He has good intentions and he's just in an unhappy place and trying to prevent sadie from having to experience that bad place too. Is he selfish, YES! But he and Sadie are clearly the same person in their relationships. Finn just got stuck in his where as Sadie eliminated her "stickiness" and her relationship really was out of love not obligation.
Ok so none of that probably makes sense, but I hated everyone until about 84% in and then I started crying during half of the dialogue. By the end I decided that I want to marry Nathan so hopefully they do get a divorce.... But not really because I'm so happy and hope they get their baby :)
So I was a bit pessimistic about this book, mainly because I read a couple of reviews that weren't loving it because of the triangle. Let me just admit fully that all three main characters annoyed the cheez-it's out of me for MOST of the book. That being said I also loved that they were all real flawed humans, and not just perfect and movie star hot people with perfect personalities.
Sadie - the most selfish and dim witted person ever. Seriously how do you not just ASK your husband if he is cheating??? If I thought my husband was cheating I would yes look for clues first, but after the bowling alley she should have asked. Come on!!!! Luckily she semi redeems herself by the end. KIND OF!
Nate - the most passive aggressive idiot ever. Ok I wish I had written more horrible things about him before the end, because I really hated him until he said the whole "I will fight for you...." Whatever speak, because I literally cried because forgiveness when you're in love is my weak spot.
Finn - he's like a big ass creepy lurker. Ok maybe not. He has good intentions and he's just in an unhappy place and trying to prevent sadie from having to experience that bad place too. Is he selfish, YES! But he and Sadie are clearly the same person in their relationships. Finn just got stuck in his where as Sadie eliminated her "stickiness" and her relationship really was out of love not obligation.
Ok so none of that probably makes sense, but I hated everyone until about 84% in and then I started crying during half of the dialogue. By the end I decided that I want to marry Nathan so hopefully they do get a divorce.... But not really because I'm so happy and hope they get their baby :)
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes