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Bride or Die
by Madison Score
slow-paced
What can I say about BRIDE OR DIE? A few chapters in a character referred to a small animal as a slur that starts with M (used against Little People) and then there was an off-handed joke about a possible epileptic seizure.
I made it to around 35% when the cartoonishly one-dimensional female antagonist did a villain-esque monolog on live tv and it felt like I was reading a pre-teen soap opera script.
So I skipped forward to skim a bit and stumbled onto a scene where the heroine gets an accidental injury and is in the hospital. The doctor and nurse are repeatedly asking if she is a victim of domestic violence and the heroine keeps joking about it.
“Claire, this is a safe space. You can tell us what really happened,” the woman encouraged... “He’s never laid a hand on you?”
“I wouldn’t mind if he laid a hand on me, if you know what I mean.” Claire tried to wiggle her eyebrows.
In 2024, are authors really making light of domestic violence in their rom coms? I just couldn't keep reading after that. Reading is subjective, but i am pretty amazed at the positive reviews this book is receiving.
Because this was an ARC read, I first privately contacted the author and kindly mentioned this issue. She responded with the statement that she wrote this book ages ago and had personally grown since then. Soooo..... yeah.... that was her response.
I was excited for a rom-com/romantic suspense read, but BRIDE OR DIE did not do it for me.
DNF: 34%
CW: offensive term for little people, joke about epilepsy, women murdered by serial killer, making light of potential domestic violence
I made it to around 35% when the cartoonishly one-dimensional female antagonist did a villain-esque monolog on live tv and it felt like I was reading a pre-teen soap opera script.
So I skipped forward to skim a bit and stumbled onto a scene where the heroine gets an accidental injury and is in the hospital. The doctor and nurse are repeatedly asking if she is a victim of domestic violence and the heroine keeps joking about it.
“Claire, this is a safe space. You can tell us what really happened,” the woman encouraged... “He’s never laid a hand on you?”
“I wouldn’t mind if he laid a hand on me, if you know what I mean.” Claire tried to wiggle her eyebrows.
In 2024, are authors really making light of domestic violence in their rom coms? I just couldn't keep reading after that. Reading is subjective, but i am pretty amazed at the positive reviews this book is receiving.
Because this was an ARC read, I first privately contacted the author and kindly mentioned this issue. She responded with the statement that she wrote this book ages ago and had personally grown since then. Soooo..... yeah.... that was her response.
I was excited for a rom-com/romantic suspense read, but BRIDE OR DIE did not do it for me.
DNF: 34%
CW: offensive term for little people, joke about epilepsy, women murdered by serial killer, making light of potential domestic violence