A review by dianapiskor
Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

adventurous emotional lighthearted sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book, until about halfway through, really hooked me. Eve, finding that she is unexpectedly pregnant and the ramifications of that, was interesting… until a point. However, this was publicized as a romance book and there wasn’t a lot of romance in it. It’s more women’s fiction. That’s fine, but I need publishers to stop marketing them the same. 

This book deals more with Eve’s, the FMC, growth as a person using her unplanned pregnancy to do so. Everything centers around this. What you think is going to be a romance ends up being Eve’s journey. That’s not what I thought I was signing up for. You’ve got this awesome character, Shep, who is supposed to be the MMC and this is their romance. But at the end of the day, there’s a lot of internal monologuing and their romance falls extremely flat because ITS NOT A ROMANCE. 

This becomes abundantly clear around the halfway point and that’s when the story slows down. And that’s when my interest started waning. 

Overall, the book was good, but it is mismarketed, which is frustrating to me as a reader. It’s not the author’s fault, but, ultimately, it impacted my enjoyment of the book. 
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