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A review by bookish_kristina
Running into Love by Aurora Rose Reynolds
2.0
This book was problematic a.f.
It was a trite pile of literary stereotypes and read like a high school writing assignment. First off we have the hero Levi who is the broody cop, he is as condescending a hero as AAR has written, and she writes some arrogant men. So Levi really likes dumb women. He’s all about the manic pixie dream girl - you know the one - she walks around in a fog of pixie dust, not knowing how great she is, tripping over her own feet waiting to be rescued by her big strong hero. That is Fawn to a T, a better named character I have yet to read, this wide eyed baby deer of a woman starts off their romance by running with her eyes closed in Central Park. Yes folks, that’s how they meet, we don’t ever know why, but brainless Fawn crashes into Levi on a morning jog/sleep.
Everything that happens afterwards is pretty much a repeat of every other AAR book I’ve ever read. They are neighbours, of course, there is a dog that gets overly attached to the hero or heroine (in this case hero), meddling family, condescending conversations, the heroine gets misty eyed and cries over every little thing the hero says, they fuck, they order take out, they fuck some more, they get married. The end.
So of course to make it even more clichéd we have unnecessary ow drama that happens for about a half second at the 96% mark, a mean girl character of the sister in law who is a bitch for no known reason other than that the author hates women and has to show that Fawn is the only decent human female ever born, and we have the first POCs I have ever seen in an AAR book in the form of a prostitute and a pimp. Nice one... Aurora if you want to diversify your character mix, I advise you not to make the only criminal element be the African American or Latinx persons whilst the white folks in your story are the cop investigating the POC and the teacher who rescues their poor orphaned child. Just yuk. Writers, authors, would be fiction creators, read this book as a cautionary tale on how not to write characters.
Booooooo Ms. Reynolds, booooo. This was badly badly done.
It was a trite pile of literary stereotypes and read like a high school writing assignment. First off we have the hero Levi who is the broody cop, he is as condescending a hero as AAR has written, and she writes some arrogant men. So Levi really likes dumb women. He’s all about the manic pixie dream girl - you know the one - she walks around in a fog of pixie dust, not knowing how great she is, tripping over her own feet waiting to be rescued by her big strong hero. That is Fawn to a T, a better named character I have yet to read, this wide eyed baby deer of a woman starts off their romance by running with her eyes closed in Central Park. Yes folks, that’s how they meet, we don’t ever know why, but brainless Fawn crashes into Levi on a morning jog/sleep.
Everything that happens afterwards is pretty much a repeat of every other AAR book I’ve ever read. They are neighbours, of course, there is a dog that gets overly attached to the hero or heroine (in this case hero), meddling family, condescending conversations, the heroine gets misty eyed and cries over every little thing the hero says, they fuck, they order take out, they fuck some more, they get married. The end.
So of course to make it even more clichéd we have unnecessary ow drama that happens for about a half second at the 96% mark, a mean girl character of the sister in law who is a bitch for no known reason other than that the author hates women and has to show that Fawn is the only decent human female ever born, and we have the first POCs I have ever seen in an AAR book in the form of a prostitute and a pimp. Nice one... Aurora if you want to diversify your character mix, I advise you not to make the only criminal element be the African American or Latinx persons whilst the white folks in your story are the cop investigating the POC and the teacher who rescues their poor orphaned child. Just yuk. Writers, authors, would be fiction creators, read this book as a cautionary tale on how not to write characters.
Booooooo Ms. Reynolds, booooo. This was badly badly done.