kaatelin 's review for:

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

2.5

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This story tries to do a lot with a short page count, but it felt like the focus laid in the wrong areas. I was excited to read a t4t4t romance, but the relationships and attraction developed extremely quickly, and it was hard to actually imagine the connection between the characters.

This was especially the case for Audrey and Victor, who we got a few kind of awkward interactions and one monologue about their past as exes, but it didn't seem to have the development of relationship to see how they could get back together.

It was interesting to see the characters navigate a different relationship structure,

and I liked the initial conversations of navigating spending different time with Victor and Audrey, but their true throuple status kind of starts and ends with their threesome, and we don't see it develop any further.

Other reviews are spot on when they point out how much more attention to detail the food in the novel rather than the relationships.