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asryne 's review for:
The Bourbon Kings
by J.R. Ward
Three stars because I read it with a bit of fascination and didn't really want to put it down. I had many problems with the plot and the characters and the writing. Probably should have gone for two stars but I always round up.
This is so very jetsetting Dyansty Danielle Steele rich people drama. This is not reality. I don't particularly like books like this usually but again, I felt compelled to find out what happened next (much of which I did predict) so there's that. I didn't get our heroine, Lizzie King, or why the hero was in love with her, and I especially didn't get what she saw in Lane because he's mostly a self-absorbed jerk. He did experience personal growth throughout the book, and that helped. The conflict between the two, while dramatic, was rather too easily explained to really be responsible for keeping him apart. Here's the thing. Once they get back together, Lizzie shouldn't have wanted to leave him because she hears that he beat his ex-wife, who is pregnant with his child again. She should have not believed this, because it was vaguely idiotic that anyone would have thought this was true, but she SHOULD have been really pissed at him for finding out this information and not TELLING HER. This man will never treat you as an equal in your relationship, Lizzie.
Why did we need to rename Louisville "Charlemont"? Being from Kentucky, there are some things she did right. The basketball divide between the red and the blue... I don't entirely get it but it's a thing. I don't understand why she renamed the universities and the mascots from cardinals to eagles, and wildcats to tigers. It's just weird. She talked about the real Derby and other races, but fictionalized the rest of it. The Charlemont Courier Journal. REALLY?
I have literally never, in nearly forty years of living in Kentucky, heard anyone use the word "y'all" in reference to only one person. Y'all is a plural word, always, in my experience, referring to the group of people you're talking to, or the person and whatever group/family he or she belongs to. She has people walking up to one person and calling him/her "y'all". It made me cringey.
This is so very jetsetting Dyansty Danielle Steele rich people drama. This is not reality. I don't particularly like books like this usually but again, I felt compelled to find out what happened next (much of which I did predict) so there's that. I didn't get our heroine, Lizzie King, or why the hero was in love with her, and I especially didn't get what she saw in Lane because he's mostly a self-absorbed jerk. He did experience personal growth throughout the book, and that helped. The conflict between the two, while dramatic, was rather too easily explained to really be responsible for keeping him apart. Here's the thing. Once they get back together, Lizzie shouldn't have wanted to leave him because she hears that he beat his ex-wife, who is pregnant with his child again. She should have not believed this, because it was vaguely idiotic that anyone would have thought this was true, but she SHOULD have been really pissed at him for finding out this information and not TELLING HER. This man will never treat you as an equal in your relationship, Lizzie.
Why did we need to rename Louisville "Charlemont"? Being from Kentucky, there are some things she did right. The basketball divide between the red and the blue... I don't entirely get it but it's a thing. I don't understand why she renamed the universities and the mascots from cardinals to eagles, and wildcats to tigers. It's just weird. She talked about the real Derby and other races, but fictionalized the rest of it. The Charlemont Courier Journal. REALLY?
I have literally never, in nearly forty years of living in Kentucky, heard anyone use the word "y'all" in reference to only one person. Y'all is a plural word, always, in my experience, referring to the group of people you're talking to, or the person and whatever group/family he or she belongs to. She has people walking up to one person and calling him/her "y'all". It made me cringey.