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A review by reniareads
Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Let me just be a hater. Let me get out all my grievances about this here book.
I have read books that made me wonder "Why was this written?" And books that made me go "Oh my God not this again" and I'll testify that this book made me do both.
From it's haphazard no chemistry romance to it's hand fisted whodunnit plot.
I felt like I was constantly confused, asking what and why and when due to the huge gaps of time in the story and the lack of proper character development.
There was nothing but cliches and honestly romance so bland I've eaten unsalted crackers with more flavor.
So let's get into the story.
It's about Clarissa, a partially blind woman who needs her glasses to do anything, but her stepmother --sorry I mean EVIL stepmother, cause Cinderella, you know-- refuses to allow her to wear them. Now I find this to be ridiculous. The stepmother breaks her glasses and instead of her father, oh I don't know telling his wife to not do that he allows the abuse and then he's surprised when it progresses.
So yeah not homegirl is blind, only able to see shapes and blurs. Enter Adrian, a man with a facial disfigurement from the Napoleonic War. I wanted to feel empathy for him but my God everything he talked about that scar it made me wonder of people didn't want to be around him because of it or because of him.
Just imagine talking to someone like him. Always complainimf out loud about an insecurity that most people who aren't horrible can look past after a good conversation. I, too, would feign a fainting spell.
Any ways the dance is built off the fact that she can not see him with out her "spectacles" and he is okay with since according to him, he is "ugly". They begin this romance that I can tell the author is trying so hard for is to root for but girl, I could not. I smiled here and there but in all it was just . . . There. There was nothing i could say made me want to care about them as a couple.
They were boring and when they weren't boring they made my eye twitch. If I had to hear him talk about how tiny she was I was going to scream or hear her declare her love for her bland husband to others in a way that would make most people just stand there awkwardly and say "okay cool" I would lose it. There was.
To top it the glasses, ah yes those things. Honestly I wish she would just put them on. It wasn't that deep and it doesn't have to ever be deep. The whole second half of the book is just her refusing to wear her glasses around her husband and him not knowing she had them. The whole time all o could think was, "Are they for real? Is this for real?"
Now for the whodunnit plot that was so graciously delivered to us all on a pile of nothing. It felt so rushed and almost as of the author thought so twist was clever when really it made me go "huh?" And "you gotta be joking "
Not only does the culprit make 0 sense considering that couldve just did it and blamed it on Clarissa's clumsiness and/or let someone else take the blame it was felt so forced. Honestly I had to pause the audio book stop myself from laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.
In conclusion, I found the book to be entertaining in the sense that it made me feel things. Maybe not good things but things nonetheless.
I have read books that made me wonder "Why was this written?" And books that made me go "Oh my God not this again" and I'll testify that this book made me do both.
From it's haphazard no chemistry romance to it's hand fisted whodunnit plot.
I felt like I was constantly confused, asking what and why and when due to the huge gaps of time in the story and the lack of proper character development.
There was nothing but cliches and honestly romance so bland I've eaten unsalted crackers with more flavor.
So let's get into the story.
It's about Clarissa, a partially blind woman who needs her glasses to do anything, but her stepmother --sorry I mean EVIL stepmother, cause Cinderella, you know-- refuses to allow her to wear them. Now I find this to be ridiculous. The stepmother breaks her glasses and instead of her father, oh I don't know telling his wife to not do that he allows the abuse and then he's surprised when it progresses.
So yeah not homegirl is blind, only able to see shapes and blurs. Enter Adrian, a man with a facial disfigurement from the Napoleonic War. I wanted to feel empathy for him but my God everything he talked about that scar it made me wonder of people didn't want to be around him because of it or because of him.
Just imagine talking to someone like him. Always complainimf out loud about an insecurity that most people who aren't horrible can look past after a good conversation. I, too, would feign a fainting spell.
Any ways the dance is built off the fact that she can not see him with out her "spectacles" and he is okay with since according to him, he is "ugly". They begin this romance that I can tell the author is trying so hard for is to root for but girl, I could not. I smiled here and there but in all it was just . . . There. There was nothing i could say made me want to care about them as a couple.
They were boring and when they weren't boring they made my eye twitch. If I had to hear him talk about how tiny she was I was going to scream or hear her declare her love for her bland husband to others in a way that would make most people just stand there awkwardly and say "okay cool" I would lose it. There was.
To top it the glasses, ah yes those things. Honestly I wish she would just put them on. It wasn't that deep and it doesn't have to ever be deep. The whole second half of the book is just her refusing to wear her glasses around her husband and him not knowing she had them. The whole time all o could think was, "Are they for real? Is this for real?"
Now for the whodunnit plot that was so graciously delivered to us all on a pile of nothing. It felt so rushed and almost as of the author thought so twist was clever when really it made me go "huh?" And "you gotta be joking "
Not only does the culprit make 0 sense considering that couldve just did it and blamed it on Clarissa's clumsiness and/or let someone else take the blame it was felt so forced. Honestly I had to pause the audio book stop myself from laughing at the ridiculousness of it all.
In conclusion, I found the book to be entertaining in the sense that it made me feel things. Maybe not good things but things nonetheless.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and War
Minor: Kidnapping