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The Divorce

Nicole Strycharz

3.25 AVERAGE


What an awful book to finish the year with
I was planning for this to be my last read of 2022 but i simply cannot end my year with this trash of a book and even trash characters aka chris the MMC
I have to cleanse my palet with a good book and a good MMC who isn't an immature condescending asshole to his wife to erase this atrocity .

Dead Nicole there is a a very thick obvious range of mountains between groveling and being a childish petty manchild and sabotage all his wife's attempts to move on and be happy and convince her to settle for his douchbag self , guess which one was chris ??

Another author who makes her fmc goes back to her abusive absent childish manipulative gaslighting ex instead of moving on with the supportive amazing awsome gentle new man, smh

I just ADORE books where the male lead has done something wrong and spends the majority of the book trying to grovel and win her back!

I liked Jenzy to bits, loved her flightiness, loved her clumsiness and that she was so undomesticated. But most of all loved her confidence and self belief and even though she loved her husband she knew when to call it quits.

Chris is desperately trying to win his wife back while they both try to understand what went wrong. The story is a mixture of hilarious moments of blue-balls and heart-wrenching revelations.

The way the book was written, I thought Chris and Jenzy were not going to end up together but they did. Love the last 20% of book, I seriously had tears in my eyes.

‼️ SAFETY ‼️
•no cheating
•no OW drama
•there is OM drama (the heroine kissed the OM, went on date with him and stuff)

DNF

The whole "twist" was too much, and not good enough to keep reading.

SPOILER:





RAPE.

I found this book looking for angsty romance books and it did not disappoint. I cried a lot. 4 stars for the delivery and the HEA.

Jenzy y Cris son un matrimonio de 7 años, que en los últimos 2 hay sufrido un distanciamiento por parte de el, que lleva a Jenzy hacer lo que sea para captar su atención sin éxito, cuando ella tubo suficiente solicita el divorcio. Es entonces cuando Cris le cae un valdazo de agua fría ya que el no veía que estaba mal su matrimonio.
Me gusto mucho el proceso que tienen por separada y también el hecho que si hay un verdadero arrastre por el perdón de ella.

4.5/5
challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

DNF 86%

qué hueva

meh. I think this author just isn't my cup of tea.
Jenzy the twit and Chris the man with split personalities... and Moses, Jenzies boyfriend.

Chris has been taking Jenzy for granted and pretty much ignoring her for 2 years. Now she's fed up and asks for a divorce and moves out.
Chris has a history of being afraid of commitment. Which seems odd that it's still an issue when he married her quite young.
Jenzy is a crystal gazing, zodiac memorizing doormat. It kinda pissed me off because she wants to be a doula and is interested in holistic medicine too. SO is the author saying that all people interested in midwives and alternative medicine also believe their birthdate regulates their life and rocks conduct the ambient energy of the universe??

Anyways, after 2 years of being a neglected doormat, she finds her backbone. Chris realizes he loves his wife and wants to fight for her. But in the mean time she almost immediately starts dating Moses. Moses the man with no personality who serves as the adult version of a plot moppet. A plot stud muffin??

The story is overly long and frustrating. I just couldn't believe that Chris could treat her so shabbily for 2 years but still be so devoted to her. I mean, they didn't have sex for 2 years and he never noticed anything was wrong till she asks for a divorce??

SO I guess I found the reasoning and 'reasons' that the author chose, hard to believe.
By the end the author has painted Chris out to be a totally ungrateful douche canoe that I really didn't understand why Jenzy took him back. Not that I cared. By then I was in full skimming ahead mode.

Jenzy comes across as a total ditz stringing along two men. I might have liked Moses if he had seemed at all like a real person, instead of being painted as as completely ideal mate for Jenzy's personality. Because this is an opposites attract story, I guess the author felt that the OM must be like the masculine version of Jenzy.

I did like that the H wasn't cheating, and that it was the h who was dallying with another for a change. Yet somehow it still wasn't satisfying at all.

took me a while to finish.

safety is Ok I guess...
SpoilerChris goes for 3 years (2 years of ignoring Jenzy and one of trying to win her back) being celibate. Jenzy plans to move in with Moses and have sex with him but circumstances (Chris) keep making it impossible.