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A review by falulatonks
Pretty Face by Lucy Parker
5.0
For the first 70% of this I thought, I fucking love this book. From 70-75% I was like, hmm, maybe I should not've gotten so into it, I don't know if they'll do right by me. And then I had to take that back, because the rest of the book just rammed my initial feelings home - I'm in love with this. IN. LOVE with this.
This is the most I've felt for a romance in ages, and my throat hurts a little bit right now because I've been holding back tears? And that last bit's the most bewildering thing to me, because it's not a sad book; it doesn't try to evoke anything in you, it doesn't at all feel manipulative to me (and I'm usually hypersensitive to that). And I know that I may end up overselling it, so please go in with caution yourself. Just...every bit of this clicked for me in a way that simultaneously charmed my socks off and made my heart clench. And it's a bunch of things I didn't even know I would love - maybe it just had to be written exactly like this.
I can't explain everything about it that I did love, because it's really late (this book made me stay up way past my bedtime on a work night - which, again, hasn't happened IN AGES for me), but ultimately, I just adored these people. I'm very emotionally satisfied. 5/5.
maybe a more detailed review after my inevitable reread.
This is the most I've felt for a romance in ages, and my throat hurts a little bit right now because I've been holding back tears? And that last bit's the most bewildering thing to me, because it's not a sad book; it doesn't try to evoke anything in you, it doesn't at all feel manipulative to me (and I'm usually hypersensitive to that). And I know that I may end up overselling it, so please go in with caution yourself. Just...every bit of this clicked for me in a way that simultaneously charmed my socks off and made my heart clench. And it's a bunch of things I didn't even know I would love - maybe it just had to be written exactly like this.
I can't explain everything about it that I did love, because it's really late (this book made me stay up way past my bedtime on a work night - which, again, hasn't happened IN AGES for me), but ultimately, I just adored these people. I'm very emotionally satisfied. 5/5.
maybe a more detailed review after my inevitable reread.