A review by fischers_reads
Older by Jennifer Hartmann

slow-paced

2.5

Man I really wanted to binge this book in one sitting. Sadly it took me a little over a week to read it. Halley’s story was so heartbreaking and it was super depressing to read about. Being that I’m a mood reader I only picked it up when I felt like being sad. Reed’s character was hard to read (see what I did there 🤣) throughout the whole book. He was the most wishy washy MMC ever. I also didn’t start believing that he loved her until about 42% in. The feelings just felt very flat to me and almost like he was just there to fuck with her emotions. I also didn’t feel like he read like he was a man in his 30’s. If it didn’t keep getting brought up I would have forgotten entirely. The back and forth was exhausting. He would touch her face and then step back and be like “no, I can’t”. Then he would give her a long hug and then step back and he like “we can’t” fuuuuuuck dude just do something already, damn. He just kept breaking her damn heart over and over again. I’ve never hated a fictional man so much in my life!!! One in particular scene made me realize I will never love him no matter what he does in the future and I was right. I’m not going to lie, I totally hate read the last half of this book. I was interested enough to know how it all played out, but I was so close to DNF’ing it. It was too long, the middle was boring and I didn’t feel their chemistry at all. There were parts of the story that I did enjoyed and I absolutely loved the ending (especially the last line) but all in all I just didn’t like it. However, I will continue to read Jennifer Hartmann’s books, this one just wasn’t for me.