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mishreads_ 's review for:
The Divorce
by Nicole Strycharz
Zero stars, if it was possible - this book is that.
Now before I start ranting I would like to mention, marriage-in-crisis/second chance is literally my favorite trope in the whole wide world, and this book? It is probably the worst book I have ever read on this trope and I have read way too many.
The husband, Chris, is that husband who never deserved a second chance. No way in hell is he keeping Jenzy, what happened in this book, will happen with them five years later all over again - if they were real.
Seven years of relationship, and he treated her so shit for that two and a half years, and then the “groveling” was just as condescending and full of gaslighting as well. Somehow, he made it look like everything was her fault. His resentment, that he finally acknowledged, was also her fault, even though he miraculously decided he didn't resent her or his choice anymore after fucking everything up.
Sabotaging her dates weren't funny. Usually, I eat that up, the guy being jealous and unable to let the girl go, but here not for once it felt romantic, it felt like he was pissed she was trying to treat herself better and he “marked” her to prove she couldn't. In fact, if I was to say it right, HE NEVER REALLY FOUGHT FOR HER. The groveling as you call it was so sub par, it was almost sad.
Don't get me wrong, Not a big fan of Jenzy either, especially how she eventually never treated herself right either. "oh he is right, I suck at cooking organic food", "oh he is right, I am annoyingly positive". Girl, you are. But he knew that going into this with you. Humiliating you and embarrassing you for who you are over and over again isn't love.
Did I mention this guy didn't take her to his elite office events and lied to her about them being no spouse events, and then told his colleagues his wife would go “I want this I want that" like a child, or that the day his wife stops talking about fairytales is the day he would know she is mature enough to be a mother :)
I don't know how else to say it but Chris didn't deserve to be a husband even once, forget getting a second chance. Nothing about this book screams romance, not even the flashbacks. I feel bad for Jenzy that she almost got out of this relationship, found a much better guy only to go back to this scumbag.
Like I said earlier, this is one of those couples who will definitely file divorce five years down the line, next time with more complications, because for book worth 300 pages, I didn't feel even 10 pages worth of "love”.
Total waste of time, and my favorite tropes.
Now before I start ranting I would like to mention, marriage-in-crisis/second chance is literally my favorite trope in the whole wide world, and this book? It is probably the worst book I have ever read on this trope and I have read way too many.
The husband, Chris, is that husband who never deserved a second chance. No way in hell is he keeping Jenzy, what happened in this book, will happen with them five years later all over again - if they were real.
Seven years of relationship, and he treated her so shit for that two and a half years, and then the “groveling” was just as condescending and full of gaslighting as well. Somehow, he made it look like everything was her fault. His resentment, that he finally acknowledged, was also her fault, even though he miraculously decided he didn't resent her or his choice anymore after fucking everything up.
Sabotaging her dates weren't funny. Usually, I eat that up, the guy being jealous and unable to let the girl go, but here not for once it felt romantic, it felt like he was pissed she was trying to treat herself better and he “marked” her to prove she couldn't. In fact, if I was to say it right, HE NEVER REALLY FOUGHT FOR HER. The groveling as you call it was so sub par, it was almost sad.
Don't get me wrong, Not a big fan of Jenzy either, especially how she eventually never treated herself right either. "oh he is right, I suck at cooking organic food", "oh he is right, I am annoyingly positive". Girl, you are. But he knew that going into this with you. Humiliating you and embarrassing you for who you are over and over again isn't love.
Did I mention this guy didn't take her to his elite office events and lied to her about them being no spouse events, and then told his colleagues his wife would go “I want this I want that" like a child, or that the day his wife stops talking about fairytales is the day he would know she is mature enough to be a mother :)
I don't know how else to say it but Chris didn't deserve to be a husband even once, forget getting a second chance. Nothing about this book screams romance, not even the flashbacks. I feel bad for Jenzy that she almost got out of this relationship, found a much better guy only to go back to this scumbag.
Like I said earlier, this is one of those couples who will definitely file divorce five years down the line, next time with more complications, because for book worth 300 pages, I didn't feel even 10 pages worth of "love”.
Total waste of time, and my favorite tropes.