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bookishxblondie 's review for:
His Unlikely Lover
by Natasha Anders
This book ended up being a big, fat nope for me because of Gabe.
Gabe is atrocious. He 100% used Bobbi for sex because she made it clear she was into him and wanted sex. He spent most of the novel in his head ripping apart her body and her looks. Then when he sighed and resigned himself to the fate that his dick could work apart from the fact that he didn't like her body, he spent the rest of the book both internally and to her face making fun of who she was as a person, how she dressed, the fact that she wasn't a girly, super feminine woman, and even verbalizes this to her face, NEAR THE END OF THE BOOK and Bobbi forgives him and gives him like his fourteenth chance.
Absolutely, fucking not. NOPE. I was so angry at this book and how the heroine subjected herself to abuse at the hands of this man, because she was so in love with him for years and just had to brush it aside to keep him. GOD DAMNIT. I HATE THIS TROPE IN FICTION SO MUCH. How hard is it to write healthy relationships and self esteem? Bobbi deserved SOOOOOOOOOOO much better than Gabe. She deserved a man who loved her for her body, for who she was deep down, not someone who just sighed and accepted that was unfortunately attracted to his friend.
I am so disappointed in this novel after loving the first one, and tolerating the second one. This one is really, really unforgivably awful in how it treats the heroine.
Gabe is atrocious. He 100% used Bobbi for sex because she made it clear she was into him and wanted sex. He spent most of the novel in his head ripping apart her body and her looks. Then when he sighed and resigned himself to the fate that his dick could work apart from the fact that he didn't like her body, he spent the rest of the book both internally and to her face making fun of who she was as a person, how she dressed, the fact that she wasn't a girly, super feminine woman, and even verbalizes this to her face, NEAR THE END OF THE BOOK and Bobbi forgives him and gives him like his fourteenth chance.
Absolutely, fucking not. NOPE. I was so angry at this book and how the heroine subjected herself to abuse at the hands of this man, because she was so in love with him for years and just had to brush it aside to keep him. GOD DAMNIT. I HATE THIS TROPE IN FICTION SO MUCH. How hard is it to write healthy relationships and self esteem? Bobbi deserved SOOOOOOOOOOO much better than Gabe. She deserved a man who loved her for her body, for who she was deep down, not someone who just sighed and accepted that was unfortunately attracted to his friend.
I am so disappointed in this novel after loving the first one, and tolerating the second one. This one is really, really unforgivably awful in how it treats the heroine.