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3.71 AVERAGE
3 stars!
one thing about me is that the cheating trope is gonna annoy me every single time!!! I know people love this book but me personally I found myself putting it down several times because of the amount of red flags….
magnolia & bj have so many issues and both need therapy!
one thing about me is that the cheating trope is gonna annoy me every single time!!! I know people love this book but me personally I found myself putting it down several times because of the amount of red flags….
magnolia & bj have so many issues and both need therapy!
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Take a shot every time the MCs ask “how many loves do you get in a lifetime?” and you’ll end up just as fucked up as BJ on a night out.
God this book was repetitive, messy and insufferable. Will I continue this series? You know it
God this book was repetitive, messy and insufferable. Will I continue this series? You know it
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Could not get into this at all - characters had no personalities beyond their borderline abusive relationship, writing was awful and made worse upon finding out about the author defending the use of AI in writing.
Magnolia parks - Jesse Hastings
This book is full of red flags… if you want to see what a relationship shouldn’t be then this is it.
Will I read the next book… probably. Not right now but in the future I will continue this series.
Gossip girl mixed with Geordie shore that’s what this book is. The only part that resembles gossip girl is that they are all rich kids who do what they want. BJ and magnolia remind me a bit of Gaz and Charlotte in Geordie shore, always going back to each other but destroying each other at the same time, when you finally think they have figured it out one of them does something and messes it up.
I want magnolia happy, she deserves a Tom England and Tom England deserves the WORLD. TOM ENGLAND IS A KING. He was trying to help, fell in love and was the perfect boyfriend.
This book is full of red flags… if you want to see what a relationship shouldn’t be then this is it.
Will I read the next book… probably. Not right now but in the future I will continue this series.
Gossip girl mixed with Geordie shore that’s what this book is. The only part that resembles gossip girl is that they are all rich kids who do what they want. BJ and magnolia remind me a bit of Gaz and Charlotte in Geordie shore, always going back to each other but destroying each other at the same time, when you finally think they have figured it out one of them does something and messes it up.
I want magnolia happy, she deserves a Tom England and Tom England deserves the WORLD. TOM ENGLAND IS A KING. He was trying to help, fell in love and was the perfect boyfriend.
The first time I read this, a year ago exactly funny enough, I wasn’t a big fan of it. At the time, I was primarily reading the same type of romance book over and over. They were copy paste with different names over and over and over.
Now, I’ve made it a point to rotten my reading, and I think it has made all the difference in reading this story again. This time, I felt so immersed in the words I was reading, that I was able to understand every feeling that the characters were expressing.
I think it’s also fun to go back and reread this having the knowledge of how the series plays out, and being able to pick up and know what all of these little references place about are to.
Heading into it, the story is like love Island on steroids. So if you don’t like the drama that comes with watching shows like love Island, you are not going to like this book at all, and that’s the truth of it. I however love, love Island, so this is right up my alley haha.
There’s so much complexity within Beej and Magnolias history and relationship, that I understand why it is so hard for the two of them to not be in one. They were very young when they got together, so the two of them always need this time apart to grow as their own people, and to understand more about themselves before they can be the right person for each other.
With full transparency, I used to think it was so annoying when authors would write books that made you angry, but now, I’m realizing how impressive it is that somebody can make you feel this way with words on paper.
I’m attaching below some of my favorite quotes from the book because I read them and was completely gagged:
“So, it doesn’t matter if I love him—which I don’t—but if I did, it doesn’t matter, even now. Because loving him is the same thing as tossing the keys to my heart to a valet without a driver’s license. He’ll drive me off a cliff.”
“There are all sorts of loves in this world, I know that now. I don’t know it completely—it’s not a full moon of knowing just yet, maybe at best I’m at the waxing crescent of understanding what I can about love. They say it conquers all, but does it? Can it even? All is so vast.”
“Can you die from a broken heart, do you know? And if I did and they cut me wide open, would I bleed loving him? When they lift my heart out of my chest cavity to weigh it, does it weigh the same as his top lip? Is his name carved into my third rib to the left? Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. He’s killing me. Loving him is killing me too, and I’m afraid because how many loves really, do you get in a lifetime? How many chances do you give it before you let it go? I’m letting it go.”
Now, I’ve made it a point to rotten my reading, and I think it has made all the difference in reading this story again. This time, I felt so immersed in the words I was reading, that I was able to understand every feeling that the characters were expressing.
I think it’s also fun to go back and reread this having the knowledge of how the series plays out, and being able to pick up and know what all of these little references place about are to.
Heading into it, the story is like love Island on steroids. So if you don’t like the drama that comes with watching shows like love Island, you are not going to like this book at all, and that’s the truth of it. I however love, love Island, so this is right up my alley haha.
There’s so much complexity within Beej and Magnolias history and relationship, that I understand why it is so hard for the two of them to not be in one. They were very young when they got together, so the two of them always need this time apart to grow as their own people, and to understand more about themselves before they can be the right person for each other.
With full transparency, I used to think it was so annoying when authors would write books that made you angry, but now, I’m realizing how impressive it is that somebody can make you feel this way with words on paper.
I’m attaching below some of my favorite quotes from the book because I read them and was completely gagged:
“So, it doesn’t matter if I love him—which I don’t—but if I did, it doesn’t matter, even now. Because loving him is the same thing as tossing the keys to my heart to a valet without a driver’s license. He’ll drive me off a cliff.”
“There are all sorts of loves in this world, I know that now. I don’t know it completely—it’s not a full moon of knowing just yet, maybe at best I’m at the waxing crescent of understanding what I can about love. They say it conquers all, but does it? Can it even? All is so vast.”
“Can you die from a broken heart, do you know? And if I did and they cut me wide open, would I bleed loving him? When they lift my heart out of my chest cavity to weigh it, does it weigh the same as his top lip? Is his name carved into my third rib to the left? Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. He’s killing me. Loving him is killing me too, and I’m afraid because how many loves really, do you get in a lifetime? How many chances do you give it before you let it go? I’m letting it go.”