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3.81 AVERAGE
I definitely need a bit of a breather before the next book! My heart will be bounding all day!
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One Big DNF Star
I have heard so many good things about this book, it's actually sad and I have got no clue why it's so loved and praised.
Let's start with the basics.
Damaged Heroine Needs Rescue
I hate weak heroines.
I don't know how other women who read this book don't get offended by how weak this heroine was. She came back to her boyfriend after he hit her, cheated on her and treated her terribly. I get that some women are in no position to leave their abusive relationship and do in fact need help, but this wasn't the case.
The Controlling, Alpha Hero
Let's just say I hated him. He was written terribly, there was nothing to swoon over.
Never Collide With Me Again
The main reason I stopped reading this book was because of the heroine and how she was written. How her abuse was portrayed. I also had issues with the writing and the boring plot, however, I'm not diving into that.
You wanna read this book and see what all the fuss is about? Go ahead, don't say I didn't warn you, though.
I have heard so many good things about this book, it's actually sad and I have got no clue why it's so loved and praised.
Let's start with the basics.
Damaged Heroine Needs Rescue
I hate weak heroines.
I don't know how other women who read this book don't get offended by how weak this heroine was. She came back to her boyfriend after he hit her, cheated on her and treated her terribly. I get that some women are in no position to leave their abusive relationship and do in fact need help, but this wasn't the case.
The Controlling, Alpha Hero
Let's just say I hated him. He was written terribly, there was nothing to swoon over.
Never Collide With Me Again
The main reason I stopped reading this book was because of the heroine and how she was written. How her abuse was portrayed. I also had issues with the writing and the boring plot, however, I'm not diving into that.
You wanna read this book and see what all the fuss is about? Go ahead, don't say I didn't warn you, though.
Hab mich darauf gefreut, aber leider wars ne Enttäuschung
I was expecting a good turn of events, didn't get that. I expected character growth, didn't get that too. The only reason I finished the book was because of a goal I have, other than that, a waste of time. Sorry but probably just not my cup of tea.
1.5 stars
F*CKING B*LLSH*T
I didn't really like this book. Just the plot basically.
Freaking! G*ds! NO!
It was stupid! I never handled drama real well, and I especially can't handle when a lot of it is because the protagonist (usually the female) making stupid decisions and being completely in denial with her feelings constantly. F*ck! 75% of the book could have been avoided if she just flippin admitted that she is in love with Gavin and then stuck with it.
I mean jiminy frackin cricket. Like, okay she's with Dillon and she loves Dillon, but then she meets Gavin, but nah she's gonna stay with Dillon because she owes him for how sweet he was to her when her mom was dying.
Alright fine whatever.
But then Dillon is becoming more and more of an ass and is becoming an abusive boyfriend, and meanwhile Gavin is standing right freaking there like literally a knight in shining armor, like he's right there with bright lights flashing towards him, like he's wearing a neon vest and there's a spotlight on him and the angels are singing "please for the love of God go to this man who loves you he is everything you deserve Emily", but nah, Emily stays with Dillon because...tbh I don't even know why.
But shit! The whole freakin entire book is like this!
Ugh
And the ending! That was a bullsh*t ending!
Here: F8cking like, everyone is at the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding, Gavin for the last time tells Emily he loves her and what she thought happened didn't happen, she believes him I think, they go back out to the party, then Gavin being a bit drunk and completely heartbroken gives a small speech about how he doesn't wish Emily and Dillon well, then freakin Dillon and Gavin go outside and Dillon suspects that Gavin and Emily had a thing (well sh*t what gave it away Dillon!) and just like
okay, Basically Gavin walks away, Dillon drags Emily back to his apartment where he asks her to "Prove that she still loves him"
and I just...
And then it isn't until Dillon is f*cking Emily that she flippin realizes, "Oh, well, I can't keep lying to myself that I can ever love Dillon again. I love Gavin. I need Gavin. F*ck I'm not marrying Dillon I need to get to Gavin immediately. Hopefully it's not too late." And freaking she sneaks out of Dillon's apartment while he's passed out AND THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS. WHAT THE CRAP IS THAT. THERE'S NO FREAKING RESOLUTION. I'M EXPECTED TO READ BOOK 2 IN THIS CRAP STORY FOR THEM TO GET TOGETHER OR WHATEVER.
Ah!
Jesus.
Dillon is abusive. I know the signs and he was giving off plenty of red flags. And she...she kept making excuses and believing it was her fault.
Then Gavin, sweet Gavin, he would be shocked by this and try to convince her that it was absolutely not her fault for things.
Emily was constantly confused by her feelings.
One thing that got kind of boring, well a few things actually. Gavin's emotions were constantly described. Or more specifically, every time Gavin and Emily would lay eyes on each other, they would each have a paragraph about how they each took each other in and how they looked beautiful to each other and how much Gavin knew he was made for her and eh.
And, What was different about this book was that there was no set perspective. It would switch like every paragraph what both Emily and Gavin are thinking. It was never confusing but just weird. Like, if they switched off chapters fine, but every paragraph was a bit annoying.
This book was just really frustrating.
And Gavin, I don't blame him for anything. He tried everything he could. He really did, and idk I guess not of it was enough for Emily.
G*dammit.
And I look back on all the other romances I've read, and jeez. I suddenly have much more appreciation for those books. (The Reckless trilogy, Beautiful Disaster, This Lullaby etc)
I kept reading this book hoping it would get better. It didn't. I had hope. And there was a point. There was a point where Emily is staying at Gavin's place, and like, they're having the best time, both proclaiming their love for each other, having lots of sex, and for them it's perfect and it's great and cool
but like, nooo
just nooooo
She goes home. Then Gavin's ex fiancee knocks on his door and she basically passes out on his couch before he can kick her out. Then Emily knocks on his door the next morning, seeing Gina in her red panties while Gavin is in the shower and of course, of flippin course Emily is convinced that Gavin just used her and that he still likes Gina or whatever crap.
And the real bullsh*t is that when Gavin honestly proclaims his innocence, she doesn't believe him but oh she always believes when Dillon stays out late 90% of the week because of "work". And so that's why she takes Dillon back and carries on with the wedding plans.
This book was stupid. Terrible. F*ck this book. G*dammit.
F*CKING B*LLSH*T
I didn't really like this book. Just the plot basically.
Freaking! G*ds! NO!
It was stupid! I never handled drama real well, and I especially can't handle when a lot of it is because the protagonist (usually the female) making stupid decisions and being completely in denial with her feelings constantly. F*ck! 75% of the book could have been avoided if she just flippin admitted that she is in love with Gavin and then stuck with it.
I mean jiminy frackin cricket. Like, okay she's with Dillon and she loves Dillon, but then she meets Gavin, but nah she's gonna stay with Dillon because she owes him for how sweet he was to her when her mom was dying.
Alright fine whatever.
But then Dillon is becoming more and more of an ass and is becoming an abusive boyfriend, and meanwhile Gavin is standing right freaking there like literally a knight in shining armor, like he's right there with bright lights flashing towards him, like he's wearing a neon vest and there's a spotlight on him and the angels are singing "please for the love of God go to this man who loves you he is everything you deserve Emily", but nah, Emily stays with Dillon because...tbh I don't even know why.
But shit! The whole freakin entire book is like this!
Ugh
And the ending! That was a bullsh*t ending!
Here: F8cking like, everyone is at the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding, Gavin for the last time tells Emily he loves her and what she thought happened didn't happen, she believes him I think, they go back out to the party, then Gavin being a bit drunk and completely heartbroken gives a small speech about how he doesn't wish Emily and Dillon well, then freakin Dillon and Gavin go outside and Dillon suspects that Gavin and Emily had a thing (well sh*t what gave it away Dillon!) and just like
okay, Basically Gavin walks away, Dillon drags Emily back to his apartment where he asks her to "Prove that she still loves him"
and I just...
And then it isn't until Dillon is f*cking Emily that she flippin realizes, "Oh, well, I can't keep lying to myself that I can ever love Dillon again. I love Gavin. I need Gavin. F*ck I'm not marrying Dillon I need to get to Gavin immediately. Hopefully it's not too late." And freaking she sneaks out of Dillon's apartment while he's passed out AND THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS. WHAT THE CRAP IS THAT. THERE'S NO FREAKING RESOLUTION. I'M EXPECTED TO READ BOOK 2 IN THIS CRAP STORY FOR THEM TO GET TOGETHER OR WHATEVER.
Ah!
Jesus.
Dillon is abusive. I know the signs and he was giving off plenty of red flags. And she...she kept making excuses and believing it was her fault.
Then Gavin, sweet Gavin, he would be shocked by this and try to convince her that it was absolutely not her fault for things.
Emily was constantly confused by her feelings.
One thing that got kind of boring, well a few things actually. Gavin's emotions were constantly described. Or more specifically, every time Gavin and Emily would lay eyes on each other, they would each have a paragraph about how they each took each other in and how they looked beautiful to each other and how much Gavin knew he was made for her and eh.
And, What was different about this book was that there was no set perspective. It would switch like every paragraph what both Emily and Gavin are thinking. It was never confusing but just weird. Like, if they switched off chapters fine, but every paragraph was a bit annoying.
This book was just really frustrating.
And Gavin, I don't blame him for anything. He tried everything he could. He really did, and idk I guess not of it was enough for Emily.
G*dammit.
And I look back on all the other romances I've read, and jeez. I suddenly have much more appreciation for those books. (The Reckless trilogy, Beautiful Disaster, This Lullaby etc)
I kept reading this book hoping it would get better. It didn't. I had hope. And there was a point. There was a point where Emily is staying at Gavin's place, and like, they're having the best time, both proclaiming their love for each other, having lots of sex, and for them it's perfect and it's great and cool
but like, nooo
just nooooo
She goes home. Then Gavin's ex fiancee knocks on his door and she basically passes out on his couch before he can kick her out. Then Emily knocks on his door the next morning, seeing Gina in her red panties while Gavin is in the shower and of course, of flippin course Emily is convinced that Gavin just used her and that he still likes Gina or whatever crap.
And the real bullsh*t is that when Gavin honestly proclaims his innocence, she doesn't believe him but oh she always believes when Dillon stays out late 90% of the week because of "work". And so that's why she takes Dillon back and carries on with the wedding plans.
This book was stupid. Terrible. F*ck this book. G*dammit.
As much as i was pissed with this book , the sequel made up for it tenfold !!!.
Girl with boyfriend moves to boyfriend's city. Girl meet boyfriend's best friend, one of the most sought after bachelors in New York City. Girl falls in love with said best friend. Girl can't make up her mind, cheating on both of them in her adventure toward deciding who to stay with. Girl continues to be unable to make up her mind.
I must say, I might be stretching it by saying that description would fit into Thoughtless when in reality, this would match with almost any romance story with a love-triangle. Nevertheless, having read Thoughtless and this, Collide, I can't help but compare the two. It's been a while since I read Thoughtless and I'm sure that if I read it now I would probably give it two stars rather than three. The problem with Thoughtless, for me, was how much it dragged on and that Keira couldn't make up her mind. But at least I believed her. I believed her reasons for staying with her boyfriend, and why she was so confused.
I do not for a second buy that Emily, our heroine in this one, had any reason to stay with her boyfriend. These stories are strikingly similar: both deals with a young woman moving to a new city while trying to stay with her boyfriend, but finds herself drawn to the boyfriend's friend, because, you know, he's hot. And they also happen to share similar pasts regarding their families. Where Thoughtless drove me insane for Keira's selfishness by lying to both her love interests, Emily was plain dumb. Even when her current boyfriend, Dillon, treats her like crap, she makes excuses. Even when it's obvious he's cheating, she stays with him. Even when he physically hurt her, she stays with him. Whereas her new interest, Gavin, is nothing but kind and loving toward her.
Fine, abusive relationship, it's not that uncommon. The thing is though, that he wasn't, or so I believe, quite this bad before the beginning of the book. Then he was normal, with the problem of being a cheater, but still. Emily loved him for some reason. A reason the reader never understand. The moment when I was supposed to understand, oh, that's why she loves him never appeared. It was glaringly missing. Why Emily then chose to stay with him, even when he treated her like shit, when her friends warned her off, when every details screamed at her to leave him, she stayed.
I'm not opposed to unlikable characters. Gone Girl, anyone? I don't need characters to like to like a book, but I want to understand them. Given that Dillon, the anti-hero, was the only character with explainable emotions didn't help things. And, in a close to 400 pages story (according to GoodReads), there's a point when I simply don't give a damn anymore if the heroine is that stupid. Never once did she have a real reason to stay with Dillon, because while she proclaimed her love for him, it was never shown through actions nor words.
You know, I mentioned how this could be any story with a love-triangle. Change that to any romance story, movie or book, because this one had all clichés. They even kissed in the rain at one point! Besides that, these people never spoke to each other. They laughed. They chuckled. They whispered. But forbid they'd ever speak to each other. And really, none of the characters were funny. At one point I wondered if someone might have hit them on the head, or was high, considered the terrible things they laughed at. And some of the writing. Well... I'll just leave this here:
Evaporate, really?
Syrupy? That might just be more cringeworthy than some scenes in FSoG.
Sorry, I had to comment on those lines. Maybe I'm unfair, it wasn't that bad all the time. At least it didn't abuse the ellipses the way Thoughtless did, and overall it might have been decent. It's definitely better written than FSoG, and maybe Thoughtless, or at least in the same level. But there comes a point when I don't care anymore about characters such as Emily.
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I must say, I might be stretching it by saying that description would fit into Thoughtless when in reality, this would match with almost any romance story with a love-triangle. Nevertheless, having read Thoughtless and this, Collide, I can't help but compare the two. It's been a while since I read Thoughtless and I'm sure that if I read it now I would probably give it two stars rather than three. The problem with Thoughtless, for me, was how much it dragged on and that Keira couldn't make up her mind. But at least I believed her. I believed her reasons for staying with her boyfriend, and why she was so confused.
I do not for a second buy that Emily, our heroine in this one, had any reason to stay with her boyfriend. These stories are strikingly similar: both deals with a young woman moving to a new city while trying to stay with her boyfriend, but finds herself drawn to the boyfriend's friend, because, you know, he's hot. And they also happen to share similar pasts regarding their families. Where Thoughtless drove me insane for Keira's selfishness by lying to both her love interests, Emily was plain dumb. Even when her current boyfriend, Dillon, treats her like crap, she makes excuses. Even when it's obvious he's cheating, she stays with him. Even when he physically hurt her, she stays with him. Whereas her new interest, Gavin, is nothing but kind and loving toward her.
Fine, abusive relationship, it's not that uncommon. The thing is though, that he wasn't, or so I believe, quite this bad before the beginning of the book. Then he was normal, with the problem of being a cheater, but still. Emily loved him for some reason. A reason the reader never understand. The moment when I was supposed to understand, oh, that's why she loves him never appeared. It was glaringly missing. Why Emily then chose to stay with him, even when he treated her like shit, when her friends warned her off, when every details screamed at her to leave him, she stayed.
I'm not opposed to unlikable characters. Gone Girl, anyone? I don't need characters to like to like a book, but I want to understand them. Given that Dillon, the anti-hero, was the only character with explainable emotions didn't help things. And, in a close to 400 pages story (according to GoodReads), there's a point when I simply don't give a damn anymore if the heroine is that stupid. Never once did she have a real reason to stay with Dillon, because while she proclaimed her love for him, it was never shown through actions nor words.
You know, I mentioned how this could be any story with a love-triangle. Change that to any romance story, movie or book, because this one had all clichés. They even kissed in the rain at one point! Besides that, these people never spoke to each other. They laughed. They chuckled. They whispered. But forbid they'd ever speak to each other. And really, none of the characters were funny. At one point I wondered if someone might have hit them on the head, or was high, considered the terrible things they laughed at. And some of the writing. Well... I'll just leave this here:
Her own indiscretions with Gavin tore through her as she looked into Dillon’s brown eyes, oxygen seeming to evaporate from her lungs.
Evaporate, really?
He slid two fingers into her syrupy wetness as his thumb circled her clit.
Syrupy? That might just be more cringeworthy than some scenes in FSoG.
Sorry, I had to comment on those lines. Maybe I'm unfair, it wasn't that bad all the time. At least it didn't abuse the ellipses the way Thoughtless did, and overall it might have been decent. It's definitely better written than FSoG, and maybe Thoughtless, or at least in the same level. But there comes a point when I don't care anymore about characters such as Emily.
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Lawd I skimmed this at times too damn long chapters and I hate changing POV