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eknox93 's review for:
The Fallback
by Eleanor Goymer
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I really wanted to like this book. The premise is everything I enjoy, women in stem, romance, best friends to lovers. It should check all the boxes. However the rambling inner monologue and too much dialogue had this book dragging for me.
I loved the idea of Rosie, however Rosie fell flat to me. How could this confident woman with a PhD butcher two weeks worth of data? How does she not notice what email she forwarded? Then how does she just sit around refusing to fix it? She makes a feeble attempt with the data but she chooses lunch with her mom, and a drink with Ben? Overall I was very disappointed in her character.
For a leading man, Mitch was very much absent.
I feel like a dual POV would have been beneficial to this story. Having Mitch confront his feelings about Rosie through a dating discovery with the other women would have been a more compelling story than Rosie’s rambling doubt stricken inner monologue.
I loved the idea of Rosie, however Rosie fell flat to me. How could this confident woman with a PhD butcher two weeks worth of data? How does she not notice what email she forwarded? Then how does she just sit around refusing to fix it? She makes a feeble attempt with the data but she chooses lunch with her mom, and a drink with Ben? Overall I was very disappointed in her character.
For a leading man, Mitch was very much absent.
I feel like a dual POV would have been beneficial to this story. Having Mitch confront his feelings about Rosie through a dating discovery with the other women would have been a more compelling story than Rosie’s rambling doubt stricken inner monologue.