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Bride
by Ali Hazelwood
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
This reads like somewhat well written fan fiction, which considering the authors history makes sense. That being said it’s a quick, easy read that I couldn’t put down. I do want to note I was well aware of the weird sex thing in this before picking it up.
I’m docking a star for two reason, first the dialogue and over use of metaphor is super cringey at times. It’s romance so it can be forgiven but the I’m super smart, SAT word salad of metaphor annoyed me (I know Hazelwood is a scientist but being a scientist myself I hate we they feel the need to prove how smart they are this way. I very much doubt a sheltered computer scientist knows the term dizygotic twin).
Second major reason is a bit more petty. Look I’m no prude, I’ve read more ABO fanfic then most people can conceive of (it’s a bit of a guilty pleasure), but in my experience there is an unspoken rule in that genre that you don’t explain it, it just happens and everyone’s either fine with it or not, depending on how dark the fic is. The very matter of fact explanation in this book kind of took me out of it. It’s necessary in context because I’m sure most people reading this have never read fan fic, where things like this are stated at the top so you know what your getting into, but I just didn’t like it. Still I enjoyed this book and read it in about 24hrs.
I’m docking a star for two reason, first the dialogue and over use of metaphor is super cringey at times. It’s romance so it can be forgiven but the I’m super smart, SAT word salad of metaphor annoyed me (I know Hazelwood is a scientist but being a scientist myself I hate we they feel the need to prove how smart they are this way. I very much doubt a sheltered computer scientist knows the term dizygotic twin).
Second major reason is a bit more petty. Look I’m no prude, I’ve read more ABO fanfic then most people can conceive of (it’s a bit of a guilty pleasure), but in my experience there is an unspoken rule in that genre that you don’t explain it, it just happens and everyone’s either fine with it or not, depending on how dark the fic is. The very matter of fact explanation in this book kind of took me out of it. It’s necessary in context because I’m sure most people reading this have never read fan fic, where things like this are stated at the top so you know what your getting into, but I just didn’t like it. Still I enjoyed this book and read it in about 24hrs.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content