A review by effy
Tis the Season for Revenge by Morgan Elizabeth

4.75

 

Abigail has spent the past 4 years changing and moulding herself into who she thought would be the perfect future wife for her lawyer boyfriend however she realises that she lost who she was along the way and that her boyfriend never truly saw her when he breaks up with her on Halloween telling her that she is “just not serious enough”. After a few too many drinks with her friends, she matches with her ex-boyfriend’s boss on a dating app and comes up with the perfect scheme: she is going to date him and secure an invite to the company Christmas party to show her ex what a mistake he made.

When I first picked up this book, I wasn’t expecting to love it anywhere near as much as I did but my mind was quickly changed when I realised that it was very loosely based on Legally Blonde and the way that Elle Woods is a bad bish without the man who never deserved her anyway.

One of the things that made this book so effective was the fact that Abigail’s plan was never to try to win back her ex; it was a slow process for her to realise all of the ways that he undermined and underestimated her but she knew very quickly that he was not someone that she wanted in her life. Knowing that Abigail feeling like she had to choose between the new man in her life versus her trash ex was not going to be a conflict of the story made for a really enjoyable journey and gives the reader full permission to get swept away in the developing love story. The other way that this book was very successful was that the affection and sense of these characters being meant to be was evident from the very first date that they went on. There was something so swoon-worthy about our MMC calling Abigail his other half after the very first time that they spent the night together; this was paired with the fact that he had had a conversation with his mother not long before basically reinforcing that he would someday find a woman who would take his breath away and casually dating would be long forgotten.

There was a real feeling of mutual respect between our two characters and I really adored the way that our MMC was the first person to tell Abigail that what she does matters and she shouldn’t change a single thing about herself. Swoon. 

My only criticism of this book was that I felt as though the balance of sex scenes was off and they felt as though they were slowing the pace of the book. I don’t think the scenes were inherently bad but I just felt as though they were slightly too frequent when I wanted to see the overall plot progressing forwards.