A review by tessaf
Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan

adventurous

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

In my defence I didn't realise this was the same author who wrote Hot Dog Girl. Damn she has a knack for writing horrible main characters. Fallon is a shitty person and a shitty friend and so committed to not communicating that she mentions it in her weird asides to the reader. The way she talks about Chloe honestly makes me think she doesn't respect her (and it reads like she didn't even respect her before the fallout that was very clearly not Chloe's fault). I suspect the reason I still like Chloe more is because I didn't get her POV, there's a very real chance it would have been framed in a way to make me hate her too. This book spent a lot of time just stuck in the dynamic of Fallon making it very clear she hated Chloe and not talking and Chloe trying to understand what the hell had happened. And to be clear Chloe is not perfect either, but she falls into more normal romcom levels of miscommunication (hell it might have annoyed me too if not for how dramatically over the top everything Fallon did was). This is a book that falls very clearly into the but if they had just talked there would have been no book category and the asides about how she could talk but doesn't want to are a little on the nose in reminding you of that.