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A review by synth
Breakthrough by Kris Bryant
1.0
Overall pretty bland and stereotypical, if not entirely formulaic.
Two things made me hate it with all my heart though:
- a few bits of the sex scenes wherein the LI is forceful with the MC going down on her, which she loves apparently, but read as degrading imo;
- and the completely absent commentary, let alone judgment, on the (borderline but not really) pedophilia of the LI's father.
See "She was my girlfriend and I had paraded her around our house for years in just a bikini and why wouldn’t my father be tempted?” The LI is being bitter about her family's reaction in this quote, but this is the extent of it, with zero implication of this being pedophilic and exploitative (especially since he was her coach). They were girlfriends from age 16 to 19, and it is implied the "affair" started as soon as they started university. Note that the LI is 30-something when she recounts those events and passes that judgment on her ex-girlfriend, and nothing in the writing shows any nuance regarding that topic.
Two things made me hate it with all my heart though:
- a few bits of the sex scenes wherein the LI is forceful with the MC going down on her, which she loves apparently, but read as degrading imo;
- and the completely absent commentary, let alone judgment, on the (borderline but not really) pedophilia of the LI's father.
See "She was my girlfriend and I had paraded her around our house for years in just a bikini and why wouldn’t my father be tempted?” The LI is being bitter about her family's reaction in this quote, but this is the extent of it, with zero implication of this being pedophilic and exploitative (especially since he was her coach). They were girlfriends from age 16 to 19, and it is implied the "affair" started as soon as they started university. Note that the LI is 30-something when she recounts those events and passes that judgment on her ex-girlfriend, and nothing in the writing shows any nuance regarding that topic.