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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
There aren’t enough words for me to describe how much I love this book! The heroine is so relate-able. I am also that girl that struggles with my own image, so much so that I won’t even let people take my picture. I understand that you can be a strong person but can struggle with accepting what you look like and how your mind can trick you into only seeing your flaws. I loved the journey Joellen takes to realize she was a beautiful swan all along. The hero was absolutely perfect and I wouldn’t change a single thing about this book. I loved every single page. This is a top pick of 2018 and going on my all time favorites list. The audiobook was one of the best I’ve ever listened to - narration was really well done.
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
Overall it was a frustrating read, but had some cute moments. Not a fan of Joellen’s self-loathing & her desire to have this ideal “perfect” body. There were some cringe worthy body shaming moments that had my eyes rolling. When Cam’s true charming and caring demeanor started to shine it helped move the story along. And let’s not forget the he’s a Scotsman (swoon).
Random thoughts... For a book published in 2018, I found it weird that Joellen had a landline. And based on the cover, who would have thought the story is about a curvy woman embracing her beauty. *shrugs*
Random thoughts... For a book published in 2018, I found it weird that Joellen had a landline. And based on the cover, who would have thought the story is about a curvy woman embracing her beauty. *shrugs*
I loved the first book in the series so I am really sad that this one didn't work for me.
She is lusting after her married boss and he( the Hero) has sex with a woman who is not the heroine at the start of the book.
I get that in this type of troupe the heroine needs help to snag her crush/dream man that seems unattainable and the Hero helps her wishing she'd notice him or he gets to know her in the process of helping her and falls for her but in this story she is too invested in her so called unattainable man.
I also really dislike the main characters being intimate with people other than each other. The scene is there I think to prove he is a reformed man whore but it could have been done without the deets.
Slow burn is fine but this feels like a mad dash to get together in he last 90% or so.
She is lusting after her married boss and he( the Hero) has sex with a woman who is not the heroine at the start of the book.
I get that in this type of troupe the heroine needs help to snag her crush/dream man that seems unattainable and the Hero helps her wishing she'd notice him or he gets to know her in the process of helping her and falls for her but in this story she is too invested in her so called unattainable man.
I also really dislike the main characters being intimate with people other than each other. The scene is there I think to prove he is a reformed man whore but it could have been done without the deets.
Slow burn is fine but this feels like a mad dash to get together in he last 90% or so.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual assault
Minor: Infertility, Racial slurs, Suicide, Death of parent
Loved this
I have enjoyed this author’s books in the past but this one was especially good. I loved that this was more than a love story, it was a story about finally learning to love yourself and to stand up for yourself. I do wish the epilogue went a little further into the future but that’s really my only complaint.
I have enjoyed this author’s books in the past but this one was especially good. I loved that this was more than a love story, it was a story about finally learning to love yourself and to stand up for yourself. I do wish the epilogue went a little further into the future but that’s really my only complaint.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Melt For You may just seem like a reluctant romance between two unlikely people—and it felt like that for the first quarter of it—but it built such unexpected depth as the story grew that before long its complexities were blaring with vivid intensity, and with it came a powerful message wrapped inside of a beautiful love story. One with heart and passion and a wonderful slow burn that grows on you as it does them.
With a story heavy on body image and the long-lasting ramifications of perceived views of oneself, Geissinger wonderfully offset the seriousness with some much-needed brevity with the fun flirtations between the characters. Their playful dislike of one another was enjoyable from the beginning, but watching that dislike lessen with each encounter and grow into this fiery sense of foreplay was most enjoyable. Their conversations helped to not just lighten the story, but create hope and confidence in a heroine that needed it. Her inner machinations were painful to bear witness to, but most distressing was the disheartening realization of how honest of a reflection it was to how most women treat themselves on a daily basis—something we all can relate to to some degree. For as angry and frustrated as I was with her character, I couldn’t help but see the hypocrisy in my anger as well as the huge role that the people close to her played in forming this inherent idea of herself. Cameron’s pure adoration of all that made her her, though, was most inspiring and came to be something powerful all on its own, and I adored him for it. He was the kind of man everyone deserves.
There was a lot to unpack in this story once you got past the cover of their bickering and sarcastic barbs to one another. Joellen was more than what society deemed her to be, and I loved that she was written with an inner fire that never once fizzled out but instead became emboldened as she learned to love herself—and, at some point, another only when she was truly able. Melt For You was a hopelessly devastating love story; the kind that will climb into your gut and explode into a million butterflies. And once the rhythm between these two characters was found, there wasn’t a thing that could scrape me away from this book and the love that built between them.
(I am a bit disappointed the cover doesn’t reflect the heroine at all and see it as a missed opportunity to portray what is said on the inside of this book to the outside—the same things the heroine spends the novel learning herself. Unless showing the ideal body type on the cover was the intention, I don’t think it fits what Geissinger was trying to send home).
**Received an early copy; this had no bearing on my opinions**
With a story heavy on body image and the long-lasting ramifications of perceived views of oneself, Geissinger wonderfully offset the seriousness with some much-needed brevity with the fun flirtations between the characters. Their playful dislike of one another was enjoyable from the beginning, but watching that dislike lessen with each encounter and grow into this fiery sense of foreplay was most enjoyable. Their conversations helped to not just lighten the story, but create hope and confidence in a heroine that needed it. Her inner machinations were painful to bear witness to, but most distressing was the disheartening realization of how honest of a reflection it was to how most women treat themselves on a daily basis—something we all can relate to to some degree. For as angry and frustrated as I was with her character, I couldn’t help but see the hypocrisy in my anger as well as the huge role that the people close to her played in forming this inherent idea of herself. Cameron’s pure adoration of all that made her her, though, was most inspiring and came to be something powerful all on its own, and I adored him for it. He was the kind of man everyone deserves.
There was a lot to unpack in this story once you got past the cover of their bickering and sarcastic barbs to one another. Joellen was more than what society deemed her to be, and I loved that she was written with an inner fire that never once fizzled out but instead became emboldened as she learned to love herself—and, at some point, another only when she was truly able. Melt For You was a hopelessly devastating love story; the kind that will climb into your gut and explode into a million butterflies. And once the rhythm between these two characters was found, there wasn’t a thing that could scrape me away from this book and the love that built between them.
(I am a bit disappointed the cover doesn’t reflect the heroine at all and see it as a missed opportunity to portray what is said on the inside of this book to the outside—the same things the heroine spends the novel learning herself. Unless showing the ideal body type on the cover was the intention, I don’t think it fits what Geissinger was trying to send home).
**Received an early copy; this had no bearing on my opinions**