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Double Shifting
by Michaela Grey
This book kind of... pissed me off.
The couple, as always, was cute, but it was overshadowed by so many nonsensical plot decisions and forced misunderstandings. Dima gets seriously hurt on ice, and Rory, who's loved him for years, tells the medical staff he is the husband to be allowed to stay by Dima's side. When the nurses tell Dima he is married, Rory doesn't correct it, just goes with it and even if he explains that he can't shock an amnesic Dima, it just feels so odd.
Everything feels like it's moving unnaturally, to fit the tropes instead of trying to expand into its own story.
We get introduced right off the bat to a group of players the book seems to convince the reader they are familiar with, and I swear I haven't heard of any of these guys before and I've been reading all the books of this universe. That was so confusing. All the supporting cast was barely touched upon, from Dima's family to Rory's to their teammates?
As much as I'm not fond of the amnesia trope, I don't mind it tooo much, especially that Rory came clean about their absence of marriage quite early on in the story. However, their GM pushing them to keep up the pretence to make his dying son happy felt, again, weird. It's dumb and not something you'd push onto two random people, especially when you're their BOSS and have the power to fire them? Especially when one of the two people has suffered a serious injury and has NO MEMORY of the past 8 years. You just... you don't do that.It also felt like Rory was the only one who treated Dima like he was injured. The rest of the peeps were just like "man, of course you would have done the same for him, y'all tight, what are you doing", as if he wasn't AMNESIC.
And the romance was a little predictable, another layer of miscommunication and useless quiproqo.
That was so strange. I wanted to like it! And I'm sad I didn't!! So yep, not a favourite at all.
The couple, as always, was cute, but it was overshadowed by so many nonsensical plot decisions and forced misunderstandings. Dima gets seriously hurt on ice, and Rory, who's loved him for years, tells the medical staff he is the husband to be allowed to stay by Dima's side. When the nurses tell Dima he is married, Rory doesn't correct it, just goes with it and even if he explains that he can't shock an amnesic Dima, it just feels so odd.
Everything feels like it's moving unnaturally, to fit the tropes instead of trying to expand into its own story.
We get introduced right off the bat to a group of players the book seems to convince the reader they are familiar with, and I swear I haven't heard of any of these guys before and I've been reading all the books of this universe. That was so confusing. All the supporting cast was barely touched upon, from Dima's family to Rory's to their teammates?
As much as I'm not fond of the amnesia trope, I don't mind it tooo much, especially that Rory came clean about their absence of marriage quite early on in the story. However, their GM pushing them to keep up the pretence to make his dying son happy felt, again, weird. It's dumb and not something you'd push onto two random people, especially when you're their BOSS and have the power to fire them? Especially when one of the two people has suffered a serious injury and has NO MEMORY of the past 8 years. You just... you don't do that.It also felt like Rory was the only one who treated Dima like he was injured. The rest of the peeps were just like "man, of course you would have done the same for him, y'all tight, what are you doing", as if he wasn't AMNESIC.
And the romance was a little predictable, another layer of miscommunication and useless quiproqo.
That was so strange. I wanted to like it! And I'm sad I didn't!! So yep, not a favourite at all.