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A review by crispycritter
Unloved by Katy Regnery
1.0
Regnery referred to the clitoris as a “turgid bud.”
Regnery totally left us in suspense on whether someone took care of Brynn’s cat. Oh you meant to be gone for two days then went missing for a month? You were a hermit with no family or friends locally????!!! Ya gotta tell us the cat is okay, lady.
Brynn should get her st-st-st-stutter looked at. I know you’re thinking I sound like a jerk who makes fun of characters with a stutter. I’m not. Brynn did not have a stutter. Regnery just can’t write dialogue and kept making Brynn stumble over her words in front of the big handsome mountain man teeheehee. Stop it!
Kate Regnery is not familiar with the concept of nuance. Like the red pill movement, she is a disciple of the cult of nature - people are the way that they are due to biology and nothing can really influence that. Nurturing does not impact behavior. For Regnery, people are just born evil. If your pawpaw was a killer, you’re gonna grow up to be a killer, too. Thank God with a capital G that our hero was switched at birth with the serial killer’s real son, who is actually the evil one! Our poor righteous hero - secretly the pastor’s son - “innocent” (yes, the author’s actual words) the whole time. Exsqueeze me, what???
The resolution of the primary conflict was done in such an unsatisfying, hamfisted way. There were so many permutations of how this could have gone down that would have been better and MORE ROMANTIC. You wanna know what’s more romantic than telling our heroine you can’t be with her because of your evil genes? Just saying FUCK IT and trying to be a good man regardless of who your pappy was. Cause love conquers all?!?! Love didn’t conquer anything here. There was a convenient turn of events which paved the way for love to have a bit of an easier time. Is this romance?!?! Didn’t really feel like it at the end.
Brotato drugs her and leaves her unconscious outside a police station. This is not supposed to be a dark romance. This is some mafia bullshit I will not accept from contemporary romance. Reconsider your life choices, Kate Regnery.
I fear Regnery did not do ANY research on how police investigate crime. My goodness this small town police station has the world’s fastest DNA processing time and good for them for closing a suspicious death /missing person case before they found the missing person.
There was a massive lack of clarity when it came to expressing characters’ dialects. These folks are Mainers. In dialogue everyone kept saying “yore.” It’s considered “better” writing to write dialogue plainly and to imply dialect or accent. And then when they said words like “here” it was written out plainly but then Brynn’s internal thought would repeat “hee-ah.” Not only is this inconsistent. But I kept imagining these Mainers sounding like fancy Tennessee Williams southerners. Words like “here” are not super New Englandy sounding words. Ya know what words ARE? Coffee. A cop offers Brynn coffee at one point. I relentlessly make fun of the way my partner, a New Englander, says this word. You’re picking the wrong emphasis words to hear that dialect.
Perhaps I’ll write more behind a spoiler tag later. But for now - da fuq?
Regnery totally left us in suspense on whether someone took care of Brynn’s cat. Oh you meant to be gone for two days then went missing for a month? You were a hermit with no family or friends locally????!!! Ya gotta tell us the cat is okay, lady.
Brynn should get her st-st-st-stutter looked at. I know you’re thinking I sound like a jerk who makes fun of characters with a stutter. I’m not. Brynn did not have a stutter. Regnery just can’t write dialogue and kept making Brynn stumble over her words in front of the big handsome mountain man teeheehee. Stop it!
Kate Regnery is not familiar with the concept of nuance. Like the red pill movement, she is a disciple of the cult of nature - people are the way that they are due to biology and nothing can really influence that. Nurturing does not impact behavior. For Regnery, people are just born evil. If your pawpaw was a killer, you’re gonna grow up to be a killer, too. Thank God with a capital G that our hero was switched at birth with the serial killer’s real son, who is actually the evil one! Our poor righteous hero - secretly the pastor’s son - “innocent” (yes, the author’s actual words) the whole time. Exsqueeze me, what???
The resolution of the primary conflict was done in such an unsatisfying, hamfisted way. There were so many permutations of how this could have gone down that would have been better and MORE ROMANTIC. You wanna know what’s more romantic than telling our heroine you can’t be with her because of your evil genes? Just saying FUCK IT and trying to be a good man regardless of who your pappy was. Cause love conquers all?!?! Love didn’t conquer anything here. There was a convenient turn of events which paved the way for love to have a bit of an easier time. Is this romance?!?! Didn’t really feel like it at the end.
Brotato drugs her and leaves her unconscious outside a police station. This is not supposed to be a dark romance. This is some mafia bullshit I will not accept from contemporary romance. Reconsider your life choices, Kate Regnery.
I fear Regnery did not do ANY research on how police investigate crime. My goodness this small town police station has the world’s fastest DNA processing time and good for them for closing a suspicious death /missing person case before they found the missing person.
There was a massive lack of clarity when it came to expressing characters’ dialects. These folks are Mainers. In dialogue everyone kept saying “yore.” It’s considered “better” writing to write dialogue plainly and to imply dialect or accent. And then when they said words like “here” it was written out plainly but then Brynn’s internal thought would repeat “hee-ah.” Not only is this inconsistent. But I kept imagining these Mainers sounding like fancy Tennessee Williams southerners. Words like “here” are not super New Englandy sounding words. Ya know what words ARE? Coffee. A cop offers Brynn coffee at one point. I relentlessly make fun of the way my partner, a New Englander, says this word. You’re picking the wrong emphasis words to hear that dialect.
Perhaps I’ll write more behind a spoiler tag later. But for now - da fuq?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail