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A review by jg93
From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata
Did not finish book. Stopped at 50%.
Potentially a soft DNF, but I'm just finding this is becoming somewhat of a chore to get through, and I'd rather pick up something more compelling, rather than skimming large chunks of this. MZ books tend to either really work for me, or be wayyy too slow-paced, heavy on the inner monologue, and needlessly wordy, and this is starting to feel like it may fall into the latter category.
I've run into a distracting amount of editing/grammatical errors, to the point where I've had to re-read several sentences multiple times over just to make sense of what she's actually trying to say. She also REFUSES to repeat character names throughout conversations, so rather than just saying "my mom said..." more than once in an exchange, she'll say something like "the woman who had virtually raised me and my four siblings all alone..."
Another issue I've been having is that I just haven't felt that connected to Jasmine, which hinders the experience in a single POV 500+ page romance.
Last - I'm really not a fan of Ivan using the nickname "meatball" towards Jasmine, especially coupled with all of the talk of her being on the larger side, body-wise, for a figure skater.
I've run into a distracting amount of editing/grammatical errors, to the point where I've had to re-read several sentences multiple times over just to make sense of what she's actually trying to say. She also REFUSES to repeat character names throughout conversations, so rather than just saying "my mom said..." more than once in an exchange, she'll say something like "the woman who had virtually raised me and my four siblings all alone..."
Another issue I've been having is that I just haven't felt that connected to Jasmine, which hinders the experience in a single POV 500+ page romance.
Last - I'm really not a fan of Ivan using the nickname "meatball" towards Jasmine, especially coupled with all of the talk of her being on the larger side, body-wise, for a figure skater.