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A review by ea82625
Before You by Marni Mann
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
I need to preface this by saying this is not your standard romance book. If you don’t want spoilers skip this. There is no happy ending or even happy for now. The ending is extremely unsatisfying and feels like a cliffhanger but I don’t think there is a second book.
Onto the plot, this book did hold my attention until the big twist. I started to guess the gist of the twist close to halfway through, but it went even further than expected. Honestly, what the mmc did was flat out lie and then try to gaslight her into thinking it could be excused. I don’t know how any relationship could start and last on that lie. I’ve read other books where the mmc is somehow involved in the death of someone related to the main fmc but usually he doesn’t know and isn’t actively hiding it. In this case, especially with a 17 yr age gap, it just felt gross.
So I’m torn on the rating, while I did enjoy the writing the dialogue and the 2 time periods, I hated the actual plot and the ending hence the low rating.
Onto the plot, this book did hold my attention until the big twist. I started to guess the gist of the twist close to halfway through, but it went even further than expected. Honestly, what the mmc did was flat out lie and then try to gaslight her into thinking it could be excused. I don’t know how any relationship could start and last on that lie. I’ve read other books where the mmc is somehow involved in the death of someone related to the main fmc but usually he doesn’t know and isn’t actively hiding it. In this case, especially with a 17 yr age gap, it just felt gross.
So I’m torn on the rating, while I did enjoy the writing the dialogue and the 2 time periods, I hated the actual plot and the ending hence the low rating.