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salimah 's review for:
Not the Girl You Marry
by Andie J. Christopher
There were bright spots here and there, but I wish that instead of ongoing descriptions of the convoluted, parallel gambits each character was running, that we'd actually gotten more of the principals' evolving, emotional intimacy on the page. The reader was often told that the characters were in love/falling in love, but there wasn't much to support it.
Repetitive in places and oversimplified on the whole, but worthwhile themes (race/racial construct/racial identity, the impact of divorce, etc.) emerge. I'm more than a little okay with romance novels taking on thorny social and political issues such as gender stereotyping, but in order for that to be effective, more is required than merely trotting out canned phrases and tired talking points. This book isn't written in a mature enough way to do those issues justice.
I understand that the idea behind How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days was the premise of this one, but the trickery and deceit of the idea in the movie and now in this book are distasteful. Act like a jerk/immature idiot and the person you're dating wants out... Well. No kidding. Was that really the idea to rework in 2019?
A good fake relationship story is best when both parties are in on it, by the way. The fun is in both people agreeing to the terms. This could have been a little more compelling if Jack and Hannah had had a meeting of the minds and agreed to help each other with their career aspirations. Maybe there'd have been more time to evolve their connection.
Repetitive in places and oversimplified on the whole, but worthwhile themes (race/racial construct/racial identity, the impact of divorce, etc.) emerge. I'm more than a little okay with romance novels taking on thorny social and political issues such as gender stereotyping, but in order for that to be effective, more is required than merely trotting out canned phrases and tired talking points. This book isn't written in a mature enough way to do those issues justice.
I understand that the idea behind How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days was the premise of this one, but the trickery and deceit of the idea in the movie and now in this book are distasteful. Act like a jerk/immature idiot and the person you're dating wants out... Well. No kidding. Was that really the idea to rework in 2019?
A good fake relationship story is best when both parties are in on it, by the way. The fun is in both people agreeing to the terms. This could have been a little more compelling if Jack and Hannah had had a meeting of the minds and agreed to help each other with their career aspirations. Maybe there'd have been more time to evolve their connection.