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a_ab 's review for:
Baking Me Crazy
by Karla Sorensen
Ignoring the absolutely atrocious and, luckily, ill-fitting cover - yuck! 🤢 - the book is actually not that bad ~2.5*. It's very fluffy and wish-fulfilly, but fairly well written and the characters (minus the gimmicks*) are actually quite likable and have a decent relationship.
It's also a rare example of friends to lovers trope that manages to sidestep the inherent problem of insencerity of feelings and lies by omission while also calling attention to it.
*The characters have what I am calling gimmicks because of the treatment those issues get in the book.
The heroine is in the wheelchair.
The hero has a family "curse" where all males in the family have one big love per lifetime which "activates" at first sight and never lets up no matter what follows. He tries to deny it for years and honestly but futilely attempts dating other girls after being rejected by the heroine during their first encounter in their late teens.
I had a problem with both gimmicks - for one because the issues seemed to be treated as such, and also because it felt conceptually iffy - almost as if the only reason why the hero was able to fall in love with the heroine, maintain his love for years and deal with the heroine's mobility issues was his "curse" (the word choice doesn't help).
It's also a rare example of friends to lovers trope that manages to sidestep the inherent problem of insencerity of feelings and lies by omission while also calling attention to it.
*The characters have what I am calling gimmicks because of the treatment those issues get in the book.
The heroine is in the wheelchair.
The hero has a family "curse" where all males in the family have one big love per lifetime which "activates" at first sight and never lets up no matter what follows. He tries to deny it for years and honestly but futilely attempts dating other girls after being rejected by the heroine during their first encounter in their late teens.
I had a problem with both gimmicks - for one because the issues seemed to be treated as such, and also because it felt conceptually iffy - almost as if the only reason why the hero was able to fall in love with the heroine, maintain his love for years and deal with the heroine's mobility issues was his "curse" (the word choice doesn't help).