Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
DO NOT READ!! If I could have put 0 stars i would have!!! This book will break your heart!!
I really liked this book but felt it could have ended 100 pages early. I don't think book two is necessary and don't plan to read it.
emotional
hopeful
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Should have DNFd. Kept hoping for Dallas style JR waking from a dream type ending.
Wow...like, I totally get the whole fiction is not reality and thing that don't happen in real life can happen in romance books, but this was just too much.
while reading this book I just found myself cringing so much I'm pretty sure my face is going to get stuck like that. And besides the painful predictability of the action and the incredibly undeveloped characters, especially the main character, she was just awful, really, it was really the book, as a whole that just really sucked.
I reckon I should use words that are more appropriate for a book review, but really, there's no need for that when it comes to this book.
I do hope other Molly McAdams' books won't be this much of a disappointment.
while reading this book I just found myself cringing so much I'm pretty sure my face is going to get stuck like that. And besides the painful predictability of the action and the incredibly undeveloped characters, especially the main character, she was just awful, really, it was really the book, as a whole that just really sucked.
I reckon I should use words that are more appropriate for a book review, but really, there's no need for that when it comes to this book.
I do hope other Molly McAdams' books won't be this much of a disappointment.
When I don't like a book, I usually resort to sticking to the word dislike, but the magnitude of my dislike for this book makes the use of the word hate okay.
I don't even know why I started this book. Honestly. I have been in a big af new adult mood and I have had the good fortune of all the new adult I have read being amazing. So this came up on my feed and I said, why not?
Let me tell you why not.
This story is basically about:
1. The most annoying and unrelatable protagonist you will ever come across.
2. Cliches. And trust me when I say they're not the good kind.
3. Close to a million 'I love you's. All of them able to stir up about zero emotion in me.
4. A completely useless love triangle.
5. An unfathomably unnecessary plot twist.
Okay so real synopsis. This is about a girl named Harper who has had a particularly conservative upbringing who turns into #partygirlno.1 after about two days in college. She bumps into an asshole in a party (#rebellife) and SHOCKER she has these unexplainable feelings. But he's an asshole. So he doesn't become important until later, when she has a boyfriend.
Chase, being guy number 1, is a character I couldn't get myself to like. Some authors have the ability to make us have love/hate relationships with characters but oh my god did I fell like throwing the book across a room every time he showed up. He fell in love with our dear old harper after seeing her like twice. Not to mention he lacks control and morals.
Brandon one of the only characters I actually like. In fact the two stars are only for him. One because I love him and the other because I feel so fucking sorry for him, it's not even funny. He is the perfect guy. So perfect that for half the book I expected him to reveal/do something that would make me hate him. But that didn't happen. harper never deserved him.
Now we come to Harper. Ah. My favourite. Quite like Chase, she seemed to have left her sense of morality back at her dad's house. I get that no one taught her how to do her nails and brush her hair but goddammit she lived with a bunch of Marines her whole life, the least she could have done was learn how to be fucking responsible. I know. This isn't the first time someone's cheated in a book, and it definitely isn't the last. But something about Harper just ticked me off. She was aware of everything. She literally said stuff like 'I know if I go there I wont be able to stop myself' THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO THERE.
Aside from the characters, the writing was a mess. She just joined college and not ONCE did she study. Brandon's eye colour changed from hazel to green to grey (wtf). People who were supposed to be pissed af at Harper were nicer to her than anyone I have ever seen, just because she's the protagonist. Characters were introduced with no real purpose. The fake cheating scam (you know the one where a girl pretends to have slept with the protagonist's boyfriend) happened TWICE, and Harper still couldn't figure it out the second time. Lastly, how am I supposed to like a protagonist who jumps from one guy to another not one but has no actual ambition in life, and to be honest, is pretty damn selfish.
I finished this book in two days, only because I was in such a fucking hurry to get it over with.
Before ending this I would like to answer a question Harper asked,
Do you think I'm a horrible person?
Yes Harper, yes I do.
I don't even know why I started this book. Honestly. I have been in a big af new adult mood and I have had the good fortune of all the new adult I have read being amazing. So this came up on my feed and I said, why not?
Let me tell you why not.
This story is basically about:
1. The most annoying and unrelatable protagonist you will ever come across.
2. Cliches. And trust me when I say they're not the good kind.
3. Close to a million 'I love you's. All of them able to stir up about zero emotion in me.
4. A completely useless love triangle.
5. An unfathomably unnecessary plot twist.
Okay so real synopsis. This is about a girl named Harper who has had a particularly conservative upbringing who turns into #partygirlno.1 after about two days in college. She bumps into an asshole in a party (#rebellife) and SHOCKER she has these unexplainable feelings. But he's an asshole. So he doesn't become important until later, when she has a boyfriend.
Chase, being guy number 1, is a character I couldn't get myself to like. Some authors have the ability to make us have love/hate relationships with characters but oh my god did I fell like throwing the book across a room every time he showed up. He fell in love with our dear old harper after seeing her like twice. Not to mention he lacks control and morals.
Brandon one of the only characters I actually like. In fact the two stars are only for him. One because I love him and the other because I feel so fucking sorry for him, it's not even funny. He is the perfect guy. So perfect that for half the book I expected him to reveal/do something that would make me hate him. But that didn't happen. harper never deserved him.
Now we come to Harper. Ah. My favourite. Quite like Chase, she seemed to have left her sense of morality back at her dad's house. I get that no one taught her how to do her nails and brush her hair but goddammit she lived with a bunch of Marines her whole life, the least she could have done was learn how to be fucking responsible. I know. This isn't the first time someone's cheated in a book, and it definitely isn't the last. But something about Harper just ticked me off. She was aware of everything. She literally said stuff like 'I know if I go there I wont be able to stop myself' THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GO THERE.
Aside from the characters, the writing was a mess. She just joined college and not ONCE did she study. Brandon's eye colour changed from hazel to green to grey (wtf). People who were supposed to be pissed af at Harper were nicer to her than anyone I have ever seen, just because she's the protagonist. Characters were introduced with no real purpose. The fake cheating scam (you know the one where a girl pretends to have slept with the protagonist's boyfriend) happened TWICE, and Harper still couldn't figure it out the second time. Lastly, how am I supposed to like a protagonist who jumps from one guy to another not one but has no actual ambition in life, and to be honest, is pretty damn selfish.
I finished this book in two days, only because I was in such a fucking hurry to get it over with.
Before ending this I would like to answer a question Harper asked,
Do you think I'm a horrible person?
Yes Harper, yes I do.
You can see this review in Chocolate Dump
I didn't like this book. Seriously. I with all of the reviews here, I thought this would be like Beautiful Disaster and hoping it would be better
At first, it was ok and I was thinking of giving it a 3 star rating even if it reminded me so much of Beautiful Disaster but I still continued to read that the author might include a twist or two. But as I turn each page, it just became too draggy. The rating just went downhill from there. It just did not get my attention. In the middle of the book, I just skimmed and scanned most of the story hurrying to finish it. I felt like I wasted my time reading this book.
Generally , I did not like it because:
1. The characters are too perfect. There were no flaws. No secrets. I did not feel connected with any of them. The flow of the story was too straight.
2. I felt like the author was too much hung up with Beautiful Disaster story plot. I felt she tried to recreate it and lengthen the story the way she would have like it to end. Where is the originality?
3. There were no character build up. I did not get to know the characters. There was no individuality. Were some of them bubbly? Angsty? Indifferent? All I know they were too love crazed to be anything else. Where were their individual personality?
I really would not recommend you to read this if you:
1. Liked Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.
2. Did not like Thoughtless by S.C. Stephen
I didn't like this book. Seriously. I with all of the reviews here, I thought this would be like Beautiful Disaster and hoping it would be better
At first, it was ok and I was thinking of giving it a 3 star rating even if it reminded me so much of Beautiful Disaster but I still continued to read that the author might include a twist or two. But as I turn each page, it just became too draggy. The rating just went downhill from there. It just did not get my attention. In the middle of the book, I just skimmed and scanned most of the story hurrying to finish it. I felt like I wasted my time reading this book.
Generally , I did not like it because:
1. The characters are too perfect. There were no flaws. No secrets. I did not feel connected with any of them. The flow of the story was too straight.
2. I felt like the author was too much hung up with Beautiful Disaster story plot. I felt she tried to recreate it and lengthen the story the way she would have like it to end. Where is the originality?
3. There were no character build up. I did not get to know the characters. There was no individuality. Were some of them bubbly? Angsty? Indifferent? All I know they were too love crazed to be anything else. Where were their individual personality?
I really would not recommend you to read this if you:
1. Liked Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire.
2. Did not like Thoughtless by S.C. Stephen
Rounded up to 2 stars. This book is the poorly written cousin of Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens and Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire. There was no real character development at all and the only real turning point in the book was a complete cop out.
Harper, Brandon, and Chase... Okay, so take a girl raised in the military with no mom and she runs as far away as possible from a father who she called sir. She felt unloved and unwanted. No experience with boys and literally thought of boys as brothers/friends until she got to college. In like a nanosecond at college she meets two guys that would become very important to her. First she meets the irritating older brother of her roommate then she meets the other guy who gives her her very first kiss. Although she spends three nights a week with one... she spends one day a week with the other and his family.
Not only does she fall in love with both, but the one she sleeps with is not the one you would expect at first. She ends up pregnant after that weekend but doesn't tell the father-to-be and breaks the other one's heart when she tells him she slept with the other and is now pregnant.
She learns about love, loss, friendship, and family in this very moving and touching story. I sobbed through half the book. But I also laughed and was frustrated and angry and sappy to boot.
I love when a book gets to me like that and I'm really glad I got to read this book.
Not only does she fall in love with both, but the one she sleeps with is not the one you would expect at first. She ends up pregnant after that weekend but doesn't tell the father-to-be and breaks the other one's heart when she tells him she slept with the other and is now pregnant.
She learns about love, loss, friendship, and family in this very moving and touching story. I sobbed through half the book. But I also laughed and was frustrated and angry and sappy to boot.
I love when a book gets to me like that and I'm really glad I got to read this book.
Nope, sorry. So bad within the first 50 pages that I don't even want to waste my time reading the rest of it.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes