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A review by kfstoryteller
Nash by Jay Crownover
3.0
This author is a master of hooking you into wanting to read the next book, so props to her on that. I've read these out of order, and Nash was the first. I loved Nash...the character. I loved Phil, loved their relationship. I would have liked to have seen more showing than telling, especially with Rule and Shaw's wedding, and I agree with other reviewers that have said the dialogue isn't realistic for twenty somethings, but that's okay because Nash makes up for some of that.
What he can't overcome is his terrible, awful girlfriend. I can see how he's drawn to her kindness, and that the nurse/nurturing aspect of her is what he's been missing in his life from a female. But he should have cut bait and run when he found out she'd been harboring a misunderstood grudge for eight years. And when she found out it wasn't him that caused her self-esteem issues, she should have made a 90% leap to self-awareness. My biggest problem was her self-entitlement and selfishness. How many firewalks did he have to endure for her to understand that he loved her? And he had to do this while he was watching his father die. NO NO NO! Ugh. Makes me mad just thinking about it again.
So three stars for Nash and for the "family" Crownover had created in this series. I love that the misfits (although I question how misfit they are considering they are successful artists/students/career-people, all gorgeous and lusted after by everyone else, and have too many first world problems to be relatable) have banded together and become a family and are fiercely loyal to each other. That's probably my favorite aspect of these books.
I also have to add that I've listened to the audio versions of the novels and haven't "read" them. The narrators do a great job of bringing the characters to life and dealing with long passages of navel gazing and difficult to manage dialogue. I think they're a big part of why I've continued with the Marked Men series.
What he can't overcome is his terrible, awful girlfriend. I can see how he's drawn to her kindness, and that the nurse/nurturing aspect of her is what he's been missing in his life from a female. But he should have cut bait and run when he found out she'd been harboring a misunderstood grudge for eight years. And when she found out it wasn't him that caused her self-esteem issues, she should have made a 90% leap to self-awareness. My biggest problem was her self-entitlement and selfishness. How many firewalks did he have to endure for her to understand that he loved her? And he had to do this while he was watching his father die. NO NO NO! Ugh. Makes me mad just thinking about it again.
So three stars for Nash and for the "family" Crownover had created in this series. I love that the misfits (although I question how misfit they are considering they are successful artists/students/career-people, all gorgeous and lusted after by everyone else, and have too many first world problems to be relatable) have banded together and become a family and are fiercely loyal to each other. That's probably my favorite aspect of these books.
I also have to add that I've listened to the audio versions of the novels and haven't "read" them. The narrators do a great job of bringing the characters to life and dealing with long passages of navel gazing and difficult to manage dialogue. I think they're a big part of why I've continued with the Marked Men series.