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4.19 AVERAGE
4.19 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Sur le papier, cette romance avait de quoi me plaire. Un enemies to lovers dans une ambiance sportive, une protagoniste sans filtre… Oui mais. C’était avant de déchanter.
Kulti est… vraiment pas fou. Tout sauf un potentiel book boyfriend. Il parle quasiment jamais (pas par mutisme), ce qui lui donne parfois un côté condescendant. Et Salomé était rafraîchissante au départ, j’aimais son authenticité, mais je regrette son évolution. Au fil du livre, il y a des répliques qui m’ont profondément agacée (psychophobie, slut shaming…), et ça m’a donnée envie de les secouer. Sorry not sorry.
L’intrigue de fond eh bien… existe-t-elle ? J’ai eu la sensation que l’autrice tentait quelques plots secondaires, peu exploités, un peu brouillons. Par exemple, Salomé nous soule tout le roman à dire combien elle est proche de son frère, et on ne le voit jamais. Et la plume est si répétitiiiiiive ! Je n’en peux plus des « big girl socks » et des « the german » pour designer Kulti.
La romance est hyper cringe. Vous auriez du voir mes grimaces. Pendant la première moitié on s’ennuie ferme (550 pages pour une romance comme celle-ci c’est bien trop long), et pendant la deuxième ça tombe du ciel. Ce côté « on était destinés » était un peu ahurissant vu leur passif, mais bon. Pourtant, ce livre fait partie des plus hypés de MZ, donc je commence à me demander si je suis faite pour ses romans….
Kulti est… vraiment pas fou. Tout sauf un potentiel book boyfriend. Il parle quasiment jamais (pas par mutisme), ce qui lui donne parfois un côté condescendant. Et Salomé était rafraîchissante au départ, j’aimais son authenticité, mais je regrette son évolution. Au fil du livre, il y a des répliques qui m’ont profondément agacée (psychophobie, slut shaming…), et ça m’a donnée envie de les secouer. Sorry not sorry.
L’intrigue de fond eh bien… existe-t-elle ? J’ai eu la sensation que l’autrice tentait quelques plots secondaires, peu exploités, un peu brouillons. Par exemple, Salomé nous soule tout le roman à dire combien elle est proche de son frère, et on ne le voit jamais. Et la plume est si répétitiiiiiive ! Je n’en peux plus des « big girl socks » et des « the german » pour designer Kulti.
La romance est hyper cringe. Vous auriez du voir mes grimaces. Pendant la première moitié on s’ennuie ferme (550 pages pour une romance comme celle-ci c’est bien trop long), et pendant la deuxième ça tombe du ciel. Ce côté « on était destinés » était un peu ahurissant vu leur passif, mais bon. Pourtant, ce livre fait partie des plus hypés de MZ, donc je commence à me demander si je suis faite pour ses romans….
slow-paced
slow-paced
WOW I honestly think this might be my favorite one of Mariana’s books. I have no words other than I loved this entire story and I loved Kulti even more
Mariana Zapata is the best slow burn author and I’ll die on that hill
I will be thinking of this book for the foreseeable future
Mariana Zapata is the best slow burn author and I’ll die on that hill
I will be thinking of this book for the foreseeable future
this was a good read but also i can’t help but wonder why the team’s pr hated when rumors started flying about sal and kulti when their goal in the first place for hiring the guy was more attention to the team like maybe they could’ve capitalized on that a little bit even though it’s ethically wrong LMAOOOO … but then again i could be stupid and the world is blessed to not have me as a pr manager. 4 and a little smth stars / 5!!!
Okay overall I did really enjoy this but there are a few imperfections that make this a low 4
Best parts
-Sal’s dad. I’m obsessed with him
-it was actually very funny, genuinely laughed out loud
-the German nicknames were killing me lmao
-Sal’s narrator was great, excellent and a new fav (Kyla Garcia)
-multi cultural and nice Spanish and German dialogue too
-sports romances so much better when the fmc is the athlete
Parts I didn’t like
-audiobook - kulti’s voice actor was super talented but I didn’t actually love the thick German accent so much, I think it made his voice higher pitched so sometimes threw me off
-the letter thing at the end was weird and unnecessary tbh
-this relationship felt a bit surface level like I don’t actually feel like we get to know much about kulti
-age gap was ehh, if was brought up more than I would’ve liked
Best parts
-Sal’s dad. I’m obsessed with him
-it was actually very funny, genuinely laughed out loud
-the German nicknames were killing me lmao
-Sal’s narrator was great, excellent and a new fav (Kyla Garcia)
-multi cultural and nice Spanish and German dialogue too
-sports romances so much better when the fmc is the athlete
Parts I didn’t like
-audiobook - kulti’s voice actor was super talented but I didn’t actually love the thick German accent so much, I think it made his voice higher pitched so sometimes threw me off
-the letter thing at the end was weird and unnecessary tbh
-this relationship felt a bit surface level like I don’t actually feel like we get to know much about kulti
-age gap was ehh, if was brought up more than I would’ve liked
funny
lighthearted
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:
N/A
I usually love her books and have heard a lot of good for this one but I ended up pretty disappointed by it.
The writing is good, the setting is great, our main gal is FANTASTIC but the main dude is pretty much an asshole. And even though he’s really sweet to her by the end of it he’s still an asshole to everyone else, and is pretty mean to her at numerous points during the book so I couldn’t really get into it.
They’ve got fun banter though, i’ll give them that.
The writing is good, the setting is great, our main gal is FANTASTIC but the main dude is pretty much an asshole. And even though he’s really sweet to her by the end of it he’s still an asshole to everyone else, and is pretty mean to her at numerous points during the book so I couldn’t really get into it.
They’ve got fun banter though, i’ll give them that.
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes