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Lakeshire Park
by Megan Walker
In a way, I did think this was cute, but I also found it to be deeply underwhelming. It just kind of gave me… nothing.
I mean, I truly wanted to love it because the premise and basis of the story were right up my alley, but I just wasn’t feeling it; no emotion, no connection, and no true love.
I also had trouble connecting to, or even liking, any of the characters. I mostly struggled to even understand any of them; it seemed to me like everyone was being incredibly difficult when there was no reason to.
For example, when it was clear to Peter that Amelia returned his affections, why did he not ask for her hand? If he had been paying even the slightest bit of attention, he’d know that’s what she’d need, and yet he just didn’t.
He was supposedly pining for her the entire time as well, but a lot of his actions suggested otherwise, in my opinion. I think the book wants me to think Peter was obsessed with her in the sense of him being totally whipped and smitten, but if that were the case, he truly acted quite stupidly on multiple occasions. A lot of his actions very much did not help any kind of endeavour to make him appear more admirable in her eyes. And so, I just did not feel like he truly tried his best at all times, and he never actually seemed desperate for her approval or her affection in a way I would have expected.
I don’t know, I just found the behaviour in this dynamic hard to read. From both of them, to be honest, because she was incredibly wishy-washy with all her back-and-forth as well.
Any remotely sensible person would have understood he was interested, yet she kept on questioning that fact (which, of course, could have also been easily fixed by him simply making himself ultra clear by asking for her hand, but I digress to my earlier point with that).
Honestly, her inability to just take what she wanted confused as well as grated on me. She was playing the constant martyr to the point where it truly became annoying.
Additionally, even the side characters’ story was impossible to understand as well; why on earth did Ronald wait so long to make his intentions toward Clara clear? If he truly loved her so much, why was he still stringing Georgina along as well? Him postponing to make a choice was just weird, in my opinion, and so I felt unable to care about their romance at all, or even do something as simple as root for them.
All in all, this book could have really been something, but it just wasn’t.
I mean, I truly wanted to love it because the premise and basis of the story were right up my alley, but I just wasn’t feeling it; no emotion, no connection, and no true love.
I also had trouble connecting to, or even liking, any of the characters. I mostly struggled to even understand any of them; it seemed to me like everyone was being incredibly difficult when there was no reason to.
For example, when it was clear to Peter that Amelia returned his affections, why did he not ask for her hand? If he had been paying even the slightest bit of attention, he’d know that’s what she’d need, and yet he just didn’t.
He was supposedly pining for her the entire time as well, but a lot of his actions suggested otherwise, in my opinion. I think the book wants me to think Peter was obsessed with her in the sense of him being totally whipped and smitten, but if that were the case, he truly acted quite stupidly on multiple occasions. A lot of his actions very much did not help any kind of endeavour to make him appear more admirable in her eyes. And so, I just did not feel like he truly tried his best at all times, and he never actually seemed desperate for her approval or her affection in a way I would have expected.
I don’t know, I just found the behaviour in this dynamic hard to read. From both of them, to be honest, because she was incredibly wishy-washy with all her back-and-forth as well.
Any remotely sensible person would have understood he was interested, yet she kept on questioning that fact (which, of course, could have also been easily fixed by him simply making himself ultra clear by asking for her hand, but I digress to my earlier point with that).
Honestly, her inability to just take what she wanted confused as well as grated on me. She was playing the constant martyr to the point where it truly became annoying.
Additionally, even the side characters’ story was impossible to understand as well; why on earth did Ronald wait so long to make his intentions toward Clara clear? If he truly loved her so much, why was he still stringing Georgina along as well? Him postponing to make a choice was just weird, in my opinion, and so I felt unable to care about their romance at all, or even do something as simple as root for them.
All in all, this book could have really been something, but it just wasn’t.