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nichole2000 's review for:
Any Given Lifetime
by Leta Blake
I think I liked it?
Like sometimes I legit wasn't sure, you guys.
This was sort of two books.
So the first half was where I couldn't decide if I liked it or not. I kept wishing it was different. More. It was more of a fiction book, and not a romance. I was fascinated by the story, but I was not invested in the characters. I didn't like them, I didn't care about them, I kept wishing a different author had written it who could elicit those feelings in me.
And yet I was fascinated by the story, and I kept reading.
The second half was where it finally became a romance, and while I still wish I had felt more connected to the characters, the 2nd half was the reward for plodding through the first one and I enjoyed it quite a bit more.
In some ways this was so ridiculous. Ludicrous, implausible, surfacey... it skips across 20 years like a stone across water, never quite going deep enough for you to really feel involved. And the characters are so blah - especially Joshua. Like who even is Joshua and why does Neil love him? Why am I supposed to care? I just don't know. We see so little of their relationship "before" that it's hard to know why we're supposed to want them back together.
And yet I couldn't put it down. Like seriously could not, this was so compulsively readable. (And I seriously loved Neil's mother. Loved. Her.)
So yeah, I guess I liked it? I don't know, you guys. I'm so confused.
I feel bad giving this 4 stars because I just gave Boy Shattered by Eli Easton 4 stars and that is an amazing book that rocked my whole world.
And yet I feel like this deserves more than three so...here we are.
Like sometimes I legit wasn't sure, you guys.
This was sort of two books.
So the first half was where I couldn't decide if I liked it or not. I kept wishing it was different. More. It was more of a fiction book, and not a romance. I was fascinated by the story, but I was not invested in the characters. I didn't like them, I didn't care about them, I kept wishing a different author had written it who could elicit those feelings in me.
And yet I was fascinated by the story, and I kept reading.
The second half was where it finally became a romance, and while I still wish I had felt more connected to the characters, the 2nd half was the reward for plodding through the first one and I enjoyed it quite a bit more.
In some ways this was so ridiculous. Ludicrous, implausible, surfacey... it skips across 20 years like a stone across water, never quite going deep enough for you to really feel involved. And the characters are so blah - especially Joshua. Like who even is Joshua and why does Neil love him? Why am I supposed to care? I just don't know. We see so little of their relationship "before" that it's hard to know why we're supposed to want them back together.
And yet I couldn't put it down. Like seriously could not, this was so compulsively readable. (And I seriously loved Neil's mother. Loved. Her.)
So yeah, I guess I liked it? I don't know, you guys. I'm so confused.
I feel bad giving this 4 stars because I just gave Boy Shattered by Eli Easton 4 stars and that is an amazing book that rocked my whole world.
And yet I feel like this deserves more than three so...here we are.