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A review by annah623
It Happened One Midnight by Saranna DeWylde
3.0
2.5 stars
The whole set up for the book was bizarre. The mothers forcing them to kiss was so weird and gross. The reason for the fake engagement made no sense to me. The godmothers basically said "pretend to be engaged or we'll set you up with someone", and the protagonists thought it was their own idea or something? I dunno. The bosses forcing him to be married to get a promotion was also very weird and gross.
I just...really hated the fairy godmothers. The humor didn't hit at all for me. I skimmed their scenes.
I love dialogue and banter, but this book was so insanely dialogue heavy that it felt like reading a script sometimes. And again, the banter just wasn't doing it for me. It was a bit much.
Also, maybe I just don't like the friends to lovers trope. Sometimes I don't mind it, but mostly, it just gets exhausting. Like...you love each other and love banging each other and have basically been dating for years already? Great, but now we have to somehow to drag this out into an entire book?
I love most of the tropes in it, and I'm totally willing to accept some silliness or convenient magics to make these tropes happen, but this one was just too much for me.
And I don't like how everyone was wayyyyyyyyyyy too involved in each other's romantic and sexual lives. Privacy does not even begin to exist in this world. Ew.
The whole set up for the book was bizarre. The mothers forcing them to kiss was so weird and gross. The reason for the fake engagement made no sense to me. The godmothers basically said "pretend to be engaged or we'll set you up with someone", and the protagonists thought it was their own idea or something? I dunno. The bosses forcing him to be married to get a promotion was also very weird and gross.
I just...really hated the fairy godmothers. The humor didn't hit at all for me. I skimmed their scenes.
I love dialogue and banter, but this book was so insanely dialogue heavy that it felt like reading a script sometimes. And again, the banter just wasn't doing it for me. It was a bit much.
Also, maybe I just don't like the friends to lovers trope. Sometimes I don't mind it, but mostly, it just gets exhausting. Like...you love each other and love banging each other and have basically been dating for years already? Great, but now we have to somehow to drag this out into an entire book?
I love most of the tropes in it, and I'm totally willing to accept some silliness or convenient magics to make these tropes happen, but this one was just too much for me.
And I don't like how everyone was wayyyyyyyyyyy too involved in each other's romantic and sexual lives. Privacy does not even begin to exist in this world. Ew.