A review by earthboundcutie
Crystal Cove by Lisa Kleypas

1.0

Ranty rant ahead....

This book made me really angry. Up until about 70% of the way through it was fine. I could see what was coming and really was not looking forward to it, but I figured it would be written in a way I could stand. IT WAS NOT. I am absolutely so angry at Jason that I honestly thought about not finishing it.

Spoiler

He absolutely completely broke her trust in a way that should have required hours, nay, days of grovelling.

I was so disappointed. However, I soldiered on.

THEN, frickin' Justine gets like two minutes of grovelling and GIVES IN. THAT'S RIGHT. JUST GIVES IN.

Spoiler

"Love is too important to waste time" oh fuck off. He completely broke your trust, used you, and is TOTALLY unrepentant. ESPECIALLY after that intensely trusting sex scene. Like, how could Jason turn around after that and just become this horrible horrible person.

I was so mad.

And honestly, the whole backfire thing (cause there had to be one) didn't even make it worth it. Lisa Kleypas was not able to get me to like Jason OR Justine again. I didn't care about them anymore.

The rest of this series was just fine and dandy but this book really disappointed me. I'm honestly still angry about it. I don't like push-over give-in heroines and I love the hero grovel and none of the things I like were given to me. So no. No thanks. This didn't even feel like a HEA to me,

Spoiler

even with the whole sharing a soul thing

it was definitely a HFN. I just couldn't believe the trust needed for a HEA was there.