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How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
4.0
This book was anticlimactic for me - the storyline was just okay.
What I enjoyed:
This was an interracial relationship and I like that Helen and Grant were in their 30s.
Also, I'm an Asian woman and Helen's relationship with her parents was actually relatable. When Helen tells Grant that she would always wait to tell her parents bad news until she had good news to help lessen the blow of the bad news, I totally felt that. I really appreciate this representation.
The spice was pretty good. It's all open door/on page description.
I loved the premise of Helen's new book at the end, those letters she wrote to her sister Michelle. I wish we got to see more, or rather read more of those letters.
What I did not enjoy:
There was not enough on-page chemistry between the couple. It was ALMOST there, like right at the tip and then fell a little flat. There was a lot of internal conflict that you can obviously tell the characters love each other.
The author is a screenwriter and you can tell by her writing style. If this were to be a movie, maybe we could've seen the tension and chemistry better?
The POV also got confusing sometimes. It would break and switch in the middle of a chapter - too fast of a switch for me maybe because of my own brain. I'm used to one POV per chapter and it being titled that character. This book does not do that and I had to often reread for my brain to catch up that it was a different character's POV.
There is a HEA with Helen and Grant, but Helen's parents remain bitter. At least, thats how I interpreted it. I was hoping she would've went no-contact or something with them. LOL! But Helen is the their only living child and going no-contact would have been cruel.
What I enjoyed:
This was an interracial relationship and I like that Helen and Grant were in their 30s.
Also, I'm an Asian woman and Helen's relationship with her parents was actually relatable. When Helen tells Grant that she would always wait to tell her parents bad news until she had good news to help lessen the blow of the bad news, I totally felt that. I really appreciate this representation.
The spice was pretty good. It's all open door/on page description.
I loved the premise of Helen's new book at the end, those letters she wrote to her sister Michelle. I wish we got to see more, or rather read more of those letters.
What I did not enjoy:
There was not enough on-page chemistry between the couple. It was ALMOST there, like right at the tip and then fell a little flat. There was a lot of internal conflict that you can obviously tell the characters love each other.
The author is a screenwriter and you can tell by her writing style. If this were to be a movie, maybe we could've seen the tension and chemistry better?
The POV also got confusing sometimes. It would break and switch in the middle of a chapter - too fast of a switch for me maybe because of my own brain. I'm used to one POV per chapter and it being titled that character. This book does not do that and I had to often reread for my brain to catch up that it was a different character's POV.
There is a HEA with Helen and Grant, but Helen's parents remain bitter. At least, thats how I interpreted it. I was hoping she would've went no-contact or something with them. LOL! But Helen is the their only living child and going no-contact would have been cruel.