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marie_mn 's review for:
The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy
by Brigitte Knightley
I went into this not knowing that it was basically published fanfiction. Wish I had..
These sorts of books rarely work for me and this was no exception. The writing was so over the top and annoying, I did not feel any connection to the main characters or any characters really and there was no world building to speak of. They mentioned London sometimes, there was magic and they belonged to these orders but nothing was explained in a satisfying way. I had no real concept of this world, its characters or the time frame it was supposed to be set in.
And that confused me sm up until I found out about the fanfiction. Then all of a sudden, it made sense. Because if you write fanfiction the world and the characters are already established. You don’t need to work on that because most people already know Hermione and Draco, you don’t have to develop these characters because they already exist. But if you take the fanfic out of its natural habitat then that background information falls away, and you do need to work on characterisation and world building to create a new story that can stand on its own. And that just didn’t happen here imo.
All the above is obviously enough to make me dislike the book but to top it all off there were these weird immature dick jokes everywhere. Idk if I even want to call them jokes because I didn't find it funny, but other people seemingly did so take that as you will.
Saved my personal highlight for last: there was this scene in which the mmc woke up in the middle of the night and just decided to masturbate (while fantasising about the fmc) while said fmc is asleep on the sofa right next to him. Like this dude just whipped out his dick and jerked off while she was sleeping. That's so fucking creepy. And it’s not like they’re together or anything at that point, also wouldn’t have made a difference to me.
I mean, wtf?! I already didn’t like him, you didn’t have to try so hard to make him even creepier.
So yeah, read at your own risk, I guess.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in exchange for an honest review.
These sorts of books rarely work for me and this was no exception. The writing was so over the top and annoying, I did not feel any connection to the main characters or any characters really and there was no world building to speak of. They mentioned London sometimes, there was magic and they belonged to these orders but nothing was explained in a satisfying way. I had no real concept of this world, its characters or the time frame it was supposed to be set in.
And that confused me sm up until I found out about the fanfiction. Then all of a sudden, it made sense. Because if you write fanfiction the world and the characters are already established. You don’t need to work on that because most people already know Hermione and Draco, you don’t have to develop these characters because they already exist. But if you take the fanfic out of its natural habitat then that background information falls away, and you do need to work on characterisation and world building to create a new story that can stand on its own. And that just didn’t happen here imo.
All the above is obviously enough to make me dislike the book but to top it all off there were these weird immature dick jokes everywhere. Idk if I even want to call them jokes because I didn't find it funny, but other people seemingly did so take that as you will.
Saved my personal highlight for last: there was this scene in which the mmc woke up in the middle of the night and just decided to masturbate (while fantasising about the fmc) while said fmc is asleep on the sofa right next to him. Like this dude just whipped out his dick and jerked off while she was sleeping. That's so fucking creepy. And it’s not like they’re together or anything at that point, also wouldn’t have made a difference to me.
I mean, wtf?! I already didn’t like him, you didn’t have to try so hard to make him even creepier.
So yeah, read at your own risk, I guess.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc in exchange for an honest review.