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A review by blvelances
The Divorce by Nicole Strycharz
3.0
random thoughts and not a fully articulated review :
failing marriage (one that manages to be rebuilt eventually) has to be my favorite tropes. and an underused one because in my opinion there’s a lot that can be done with it.
i love jenzy, she’s over the top but it’s perfect. it took me a while to warm up to chris though, but i did, through their relationship and his fighting for her i ended up liking him a lot. his behavior at the beginning was just too much, though. if a person is capable of behaving this way towards someone they supposedly love and do so without realizing for two years, i wasn’t sure i wanted to see that person get a happy ending. but as i said i warmed up to him.
it’s a really realistic book in many ways. no rushing, jenzy’s boyfriend isn’t an asshole or anything, she has to make the conscious choice to leave him (their relationship did go a bit fast for me, especially for people who didn’t sleep together. i get that sex isn’t always important but it was blatantly clear the author simply didn’t want her MFC to sleep with someone else... and in that case what made sense would have been for her new relationship to not evolve this fast?)
3.5 stars, it had a lot of good but it’s not a book i will read again (or maybe i will once i forget the plot again) because it had too much of basically a love triangle (even though jenzy was always going to end up with chris) and i was frustrated at several points because the rebuilding wasn’t really starting. i feel like it dragged for a bit and then rushed towards the end.
there were also a lot of typos and grammatical errors. some mistakes on dates that didn’t make sense either.
as a whole a good story i guess, but some choices made by the author were weird to me and it had way more potential
failing marriage (one that manages to be rebuilt eventually) has to be my favorite tropes. and an underused one because in my opinion there’s a lot that can be done with it.
i love jenzy, she’s over the top but it’s perfect. it took me a while to warm up to chris though, but i did, through their relationship and his fighting for her i ended up liking him a lot. his behavior at the beginning was just too much, though. if a person is capable of behaving this way towards someone they supposedly love and do so without realizing for two years, i wasn’t sure i wanted to see that person get a happy ending. but as i said i warmed up to him.
it’s a really realistic book in many ways. no rushing, jenzy’s boyfriend isn’t an asshole or anything, she has to make the conscious choice to leave him (their relationship did go a bit fast for me, especially for people who didn’t sleep together. i get that sex isn’t always important but it was blatantly clear the author simply didn’t want her MFC to sleep with someone else... and in that case what made sense would have been for her new relationship to not evolve this fast?)
3.5 stars, it had a lot of good but it’s not a book i will read again (or maybe i will once i forget the plot again) because it had too much of basically a love triangle (even though jenzy was always going to end up with chris) and i was frustrated at several points because the rebuilding wasn’t really starting. i feel like it dragged for a bit and then rushed towards the end.
there were also a lot of typos and grammatical errors. some mistakes on dates that didn’t make sense either.
as a whole a good story i guess, but some choices made by the author were weird to me and it had way more potential