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Say I Do
by Brea Alepoú, Skyler Snow
2.5⭐️ stopped at 40%, skimmed the rest.
Listen, I get why this works for some people. It’s just not for me. Too many things irked me.
I absolutely loved the first 2 books in this series and was super excited for Benito’s story. But I can’t connect to Benito in this one at all. His personality is super vague and his voice/actions don’t make any sense… he swears he’s straight the whole time even though he was in a long-term relationship with a man in the past? What? And then he keeps telling Harlow that he’s pictured him as a woman. What?
• I don’t want to read an MC imagining the other MC is female. That’s gross and offensive and blatantly homophobic.
• Yes, the spice is hot. But constant sex with no romantic feelings or emotional dialogue is boring. The MM genre is starting to slide into erotica. Like a contest to see who can add the most smut to their book. It just cheapens it. I need emotion, angst, pining, longing, PLOT!!
• Insisting you’re “straight” despite several clear same-sex relationships - yuck.
• Pining over a dead ex for most of the book, that only cheated on you and completely screwed you over - no.
• And then… the surprise baby element - another huge pet peeve of mine and a big reason why I stopped reading MF. So yeah, no.
Listen, I get why this works for some people. It’s just not for me. Too many things irked me.
I absolutely loved the first 2 books in this series and was super excited for Benito’s story. But I can’t connect to Benito in this one at all. His personality is super vague and his voice/actions don’t make any sense… he swears he’s straight the whole time even though he was in a long-term relationship with a man in the past? What? And then he keeps telling Harlow that he’s pictured him as a woman. What?
• I don’t want to read an MC imagining the other MC is female. That’s gross and offensive and blatantly homophobic.
• Yes, the spice is hot. But constant sex with no romantic feelings or emotional dialogue is boring. The MM genre is starting to slide into erotica. Like a contest to see who can add the most smut to their book. It just cheapens it. I need emotion, angst, pining, longing, PLOT!!
• Insisting you’re “straight” despite several clear same-sex relationships - yuck.
• Pining over a dead ex for most of the book, that only cheated on you and completely screwed you over - no.
• And then… the surprise baby element - another huge pet peeve of mine and a big reason why I stopped reading MF. So yeah, no.