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parpacifica 's review for:
Wildest Dreams
by Kristen Ashley
SEXIST. HOMOPHOBIC. RAPEY VIBES.
I AM SO FUCKING PISSED OFF AND REPULSED BY THIS TRASH. I very rarely give 1 stars: I don’t just throw around 1 stars because it’s the lowest of the low, which is sort of degrading to the author’s hard work, BUT MY GOODNESS this is absolute garbage!!!!
Writing
1) EVERY FUCKING THING IS APPARENTLY “cool” to Finnie.
• every setting she sees
• every person she meets
•every piece of clothing
• the weird stray cat she finds. I MEAN DOES SHE EVEN KNOW ANY OTHER WORDS THAN “ cool or freaking awesome???
2) USE A FUCKING PERIOD. I kid you now, Ashley can write bloody paragraphs without introducing a period.
Example: “Unfortunately, this kind of thing would probably incense my mother, who already clearly did not like me and my father, who I didn’t think liked me a great deal more because he’d barely said a word to me, few of the ones he’d spoken were nice and earlier he had barely even looked at me.”
THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A PERIOD IN THAT SENTENCE AND I KNOW IT. If you don’t care for basic grammar rules, Ashley, then can you atleast give some regard to the poor audio reader who’ll go into hypoxia reading this?
Characterization
I will not even write about idiotic Finnie who normalizes toxic behaviour (while admitting its toxic and laughing it off).
I won’t even go into the fact that she so so stupid that when assassins come to kill her (and her husband subsequently kills them), she asks her husband if they were “bad guys.”
Yeah, because killer assassins are usually the good guys . Ah shucks!
But Finnie has her good moments sometimes.
But Frey.
Goodness Motherfucking Gracious I have never wanted to stab-punch-throttle-kick a fictional character this bad.
Reasons:
1) Pervert: He assumes Finnie is a lesbian because that’s what she told him but he makes her grope his thigh, and contemplated taking/raping her, even though she is not into ANY men, let alone THAT RAGGEDY-ASS MAN.
2) R-A-P-I-S-T V-I-B-E-S: He tells Finnie he will sleep with her whether she likes it or not MULTIPLE TIMES. And then he tells her that he never forces himself. OH and then he subsequently forcing her to wrap her legs around him and sleep with her. Oh lol and all the hundred times he insinuates that it’s her duty to bed him and he cannot stop his urges.
Lmao it’s very obvious when the “I would never take a women by force” consent line is there just to placate readers, versus when the character truly believes it.
3) Arrogant piece of shit : “I am not only a nobleman, I am the nobleman, Finnie”
This is one of hundreds of arrogant lines that would probably sound so stupid being said in real life.
5) Cheater: Frey invites his ex-fling to serve at Finnie’s table. Girl isn’t comfortable and she gets upset at him for being so insensitive. He tells her to chill and that sleeping around is not a big deal.
Oh, and that he’ll prob continue cheating, even if they are married.
Oh, and then he has the GALL to get upset at Finnie after he reveals he will cheat after marriage:
“But what I do, Finnie and who I do it with is none of your concern, be she servant or duchess. I’m explaining this to you patiently so the next time you learn of something like this, you won’t show me the same disrespect you did at your table with your parents.”
WHAT. THE.FUCK.
4) Elitist/Classist Fucker :
“She is a servant, I am an aristocrat, she knows her place and I was born to mine” Frey tells Finnie, in reference to his ex-fling.
• he just degrades a women
• ...in the same sentence he gassed himself up
• he demeans her and sleeps with her and leaves.
• Predator vibes
5) Nothing He Does Is Wrong
I am so utterly disgusted that Finnie’s mom decides to give her a talk that husbands cheating is a norm and it’s just a burden every woman has to bear... but oh dw... if it makes you feel better your husband thinks you are “sweet”. Aw.
FUCKING BULLSHIT.
AND I LOVE HOW FINNIE CRIES AND GOES ALONG WITH THIS. Like they aren’t from the 21 st century, but FINNIE is from our time. How the fuck does she go along with this toxic mentality? And not even question it?
I can’t pinpoint the bigger idiot in this scenario
6) Manipulative Toxic Trash : Frey switches her birth control will fake powder so he can impregnate her.
I SWEAR TO GOD I DID NOT MAKE THIS UP.
Guys, do you know this is illegal? This is manipulative, toxic, criminal behaviour? In my eyes that is disgusting and unforgivable.
But to make it worse?
Frey binds Finnie to his land so she can never go home again and leave him, TWO WEEKS INTO PROPERLY MEETING HER. And he doesn’t tell her he does this till the end of the book.
The worse part I think... the part that truly kills me..: is everything I listed... all these toxic behaviours that Frey exhibits, Finnie actually wonders about. And she gets upset about some of them like the switching of the birth control, but then she forgives him FOR NO BLOODY REASON.
FREY EXHIBITS ALL THIS TRASHY CREEPY NASTINESS , and DOESN’T APOLOGIZE OR REGRET IT, but FINNIE decides that he is too hot not to forgive.
I literally can not.
Seriously, nots are not able to be can’d.
I’m so shook by Frey’s actions and repulsed by the author for thinking she can normalize them.
I FEEL RAGE IN MY BLOOD. I WANT TO RIP THIS FUCKING BOOK.
I AM SO FUCKING PISSED OFF AND REPULSED BY THIS TRASH. I very rarely give 1 stars: I don’t just throw around 1 stars because it’s the lowest of the low, which is sort of degrading to the author’s hard work, BUT MY GOODNESS this is absolute garbage!!!!
Writing
1) EVERY FUCKING THING IS APPARENTLY “cool” to Finnie.
• every setting she sees
• every person she meets
•every piece of clothing
• the weird stray cat she finds. I MEAN DOES SHE EVEN KNOW ANY OTHER WORDS THAN “ cool or freaking awesome???
2) USE A FUCKING PERIOD. I kid you now, Ashley can write bloody paragraphs without introducing a period.
Example: “Unfortunately, this kind of thing would probably incense my mother, who already clearly did not like me and my father, who I didn’t think liked me a great deal more because he’d barely said a word to me, few of the ones he’d spoken were nice and earlier he had barely even looked at me.”
THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A PERIOD IN THAT SENTENCE AND I KNOW IT. If you don’t care for basic grammar rules, Ashley, then can you atleast give some regard to the poor audio reader who’ll go into hypoxia reading this?
Characterization
I will not even write about idiotic Finnie who normalizes toxic behaviour (while admitting its toxic and laughing it off).
I won’t even go into the fact that she so so stupid that when assassins come to kill her (and her husband subsequently kills them), she asks her husband if they were “bad guys.”
Yeah, because killer assassins are usually the good guys . Ah shucks!
But Finnie has her good moments sometimes.
But Frey.
Goodness Motherfucking Gracious I have never wanted to stab-punch-throttle-kick a fictional character this bad.
Reasons:
1) Pervert: He assumes Finnie is a lesbian because that’s what she told him but he makes her grope his thigh, and contemplated taking/raping her, even though she is not into ANY men, let alone THAT RAGGEDY-ASS MAN.
2) R-A-P-I-S-T V-I-B-E-S: He tells Finnie he will sleep with her whether she likes it or not MULTIPLE TIMES. And then he tells her that he never forces himself. OH and then he subsequently forcing her to wrap her legs around him and sleep with her. Oh lol and all the hundred times he insinuates that it’s her duty to bed him and he cannot stop his urges.
Lmao it’s very obvious when the “I would never take a women by force” consent line is there just to placate readers, versus when the character truly believes it.
3) Arrogant piece of shit : “I am not only a nobleman, I am the nobleman, Finnie”
This is one of hundreds of arrogant lines that would probably sound so stupid being said in real life.
5) Cheater: Frey invites his ex-fling to serve at Finnie’s table. Girl isn’t comfortable and she gets upset at him for being so insensitive. He tells her to chill and that sleeping around is not a big deal.
Oh, and that he’ll prob continue cheating, even if they are married.
Oh, and then he has the GALL to get upset at Finnie after he reveals he will cheat after marriage:
“But what I do, Finnie and who I do it with is none of your concern, be she servant or duchess. I’m explaining this to you patiently so the next time you learn of something like this, you won’t show me the same disrespect you did at your table with your parents.”
WHAT. THE.FUCK.
4) Elitist/Classist Fucker :
“She is a servant, I am an aristocrat, she knows her place and I was born to mine” Frey tells Finnie, in reference to his ex-fling.
• he just degrades a women
• ...in the same sentence he gassed himself up
• he demeans her and sleeps with her and leaves.
• Predator vibes
5) Nothing He Does Is Wrong
I am so utterly disgusted that Finnie’s mom decides to give her a talk that husbands cheating is a norm and it’s just a burden every woman has to bear... but oh dw... if it makes you feel better your husband thinks you are “sweet”. Aw.
FUCKING BULLSHIT.
AND I LOVE HOW FINNIE CRIES AND GOES ALONG WITH THIS. Like they aren’t from the 21 st century, but FINNIE is from our time. How the fuck does she go along with this toxic mentality? And not even question it?
I can’t pinpoint the bigger idiot in this scenario
6) Manipulative Toxic Trash : Frey switches her birth control will fake powder so he can impregnate her.
I SWEAR TO GOD I DID NOT MAKE THIS UP.
Guys, do you know this is illegal? This is manipulative, toxic, criminal behaviour? In my eyes that is disgusting and unforgivable.
But to make it worse?
Frey binds Finnie to his land so she can never go home again and leave him, TWO WEEKS INTO PROPERLY MEETING HER. And he doesn’t tell her he does this till the end of the book.
The worse part I think... the part that truly kills me..: is everything I listed... all these toxic behaviours that Frey exhibits, Finnie actually wonders about. And she gets upset about some of them like the switching of the birth control, but then she forgives him FOR NO BLOODY REASON.
FREY EXHIBITS ALL THIS TRASHY CREEPY NASTINESS , and DOESN’T APOLOGIZE OR REGRET IT, but FINNIE decides that he is too hot not to forgive.
I literally can not.
Seriously, nots are not able to be can’d.
I’m so shook by Frey’s actions and repulsed by the author for thinking she can normalize them.
I FEEL RAGE IN MY BLOOD. I WANT TO RIP THIS FUCKING BOOK.