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A review by jugglingpup
Abroad: Book Two by Liz Jacobs
3.0
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The first book in this duology might just be the best thing I had read all year. This one was meh. This book picks up seconds after the last one ended. If I had read them back to back then I would probably like this one so much more than I did.
My main issue came down to this book was pretty much all about sex. I was bored. I didn’t care about Dex and Nick anymore because pretty much every time they had a chapter there was a sex scene. I can get where those scenes were important buy 100% didn’t care after the first two. It just felt excessive and annoying. If I had read this directly after the other one then I probably would have made it through a few more sex scenes before I was annoyed, because the emotions would have been heightened and it wouldn’t have felt like I was reading an erotica featuring mild plot of another character.
Izzy’s plot was annoying too. So in the last book Izzy comes out as bisexual after having a one night stand with a woman. Cool. I can get behind that and I was loving that she was discovering more about herself, but the issue wasn’t that she was bisexual since she was cool with it. The fact that she was bisexual was a non-issue and it was so damn refreshing. And then, spoiler, she ends up with a man anyway. Some of the other characters ever commented that they expected her to at least be around more women after she came out, instead she got with the guy that had been around the whole time, but had so very little character development in the first book. I was annoyed. I wanted Izzy’s plot to have more women. I wanted there to be more emotions. I wanted anything, but straight sex with inconsistent condom usage.
So another issue I had was the condom usage. I know, I know. This is always an issue for me. There were no condoms at all for oral sex and there was even a scene were one character fed the other his cum. There was oral sex on a woman without a barrier. So constant fluid exchanges. Yet, for any form of anal or vaginal penetration condoms were there. It just annoys me to no end. In the straight sex scene there was even a moment where Izzy goes “well I am on birth control but better safe than sorry”. So the ONLY reason for condom usage is pregnancy in her mind, which doesn’t seem like what she would be thinking or doing. I am just so tired of reading boring sex scenes that are dangerous.
So the moral of this is: if you are going to read the series read the books back to back. It will keep the emotions ramped up and make the second book so much better.
The first book in this duology might just be the best thing I had read all year. This one was meh. This book picks up seconds after the last one ended. If I had read them back to back then I would probably like this one so much more than I did.
My main issue came down to this book was pretty much all about sex. I was bored. I didn’t care about Dex and Nick anymore because pretty much every time they had a chapter there was a sex scene. I can get where those scenes were important buy 100% didn’t care after the first two. It just felt excessive and annoying. If I had read this directly after the other one then I probably would have made it through a few more sex scenes before I was annoyed, because the emotions would have been heightened and it wouldn’t have felt like I was reading an erotica featuring mild plot of another character.
Izzy’s plot was annoying too. So in the last book Izzy comes out as bisexual after having a one night stand with a woman. Cool. I can get behind that and I was loving that she was discovering more about herself, but the issue wasn’t that she was bisexual since she was cool with it. The fact that she was bisexual was a non-issue and it was so damn refreshing. And then, spoiler, she ends up with a man anyway. Some of the other characters ever commented that they expected her to at least be around more women after she came out, instead she got with the guy that had been around the whole time, but had so very little character development in the first book. I was annoyed. I wanted Izzy’s plot to have more women. I wanted there to be more emotions. I wanted anything, but straight sex with inconsistent condom usage.
So another issue I had was the condom usage. I know, I know. This is always an issue for me. There were no condoms at all for oral sex and there was even a scene were one character fed the other his cum. There was oral sex on a woman without a barrier. So constant fluid exchanges. Yet, for any form of anal or vaginal penetration condoms were there. It just annoys me to no end. In the straight sex scene there was even a moment where Izzy goes “well I am on birth control but better safe than sorry”. So the ONLY reason for condom usage is pregnancy in her mind, which doesn’t seem like what she would be thinking or doing. I am just so tired of reading boring sex scenes that are dangerous.
So the moral of this is: if you are going to read the series read the books back to back. It will keep the emotions ramped up and make the second book so much better.