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A review by bookdrgn
I Want You to Want Me by Erika Kelly
3.0
I nearly did not finish this one. Only seeing Emmie & Slater's wedding kept me going.
It was so overwrought with drama, and grown adults hyperfocused on negative experiences, allowing them to overwhelm all the positive.
I get it, there's nothing like a childhood to screw up an adult, but given the few "ah-ha" moments Derek had with Emmie about their father in the previous book, the drama in this one seemed unnecessary.
Derek puts too much focus on material accolades representing creative success that even when he gets them he isn't convinced. All these people around him tell him he's great but he doesn't believe them.
Violet, oh Violet. I know what lacklove is and I know it can mess up kids, but it doesn't mean a person isn't capable of feeling love. And it was used as a crutch for Violet to withdraw from Derek and believe the worst about him.
Yeah, he was impulsive and a doofus, but she was his antithesis in every emotional way.
It went on for too long and there was obstacle after obstacle and so on and so forth.
It was so overwrought with drama, and grown adults hyperfocused on negative experiences, allowing them to overwhelm all the positive.
I get it, there's nothing like a childhood to screw up an adult, but given the few "ah-ha" moments Derek had with Emmie about their father in the previous book, the drama in this one seemed unnecessary.
Derek puts too much focus on material accolades representing creative success that even when he gets them he isn't convinced. All these people around him tell him he's great but he doesn't believe them.
Violet, oh Violet. I know what lacklove is and I know it can mess up kids, but it doesn't mean a person isn't capable of feeling love. And it was used as a crutch for Violet to withdraw from Derek and believe the worst about him.
Yeah, he was impulsive and a doofus, but she was his antithesis in every emotional way.
It went on for too long and there was obstacle after obstacle and so on and so forth.