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A review by alilbitofmonica
Always the Bridesmaid by Laura Carter
Did not finish book. Stopped at 13%.
Honestly I wanted to dnf at 5% and I genuinely wish I had because it just got worse and worse. I lasted until 13% before realizing that it just wasn’t worth the pain and discomfort to keep going. To put it plainly, it was offensive and poorly written.
At a whopping 5% we are introduced to our male MC (Charlie) and I almost quit the book after one sentence. Who in their right mind uses the term “moobs” as a self-descriptor? Followed by a comparison of his comedy act to the human gestation period? Hard pass.
Then we get to his actual comedy act for Jake’s stag night and honestly the comedy wasn’t funny AT ALL. Charlie blames it on Americans not getting British humor but… if it’s not funny then it’s just not funny. The joke about the harem and the Me Too “apocalypse” was so UN-funny I thought I must be missing something and I reread it only to discover that it was, in fact, meant to be a joke… If you ask me, this book is a joke.
Once Charlie and Sarah meet, it just keeps snowballing into toxicity. Charlie is an asshole and then wonders why she’s mad at him? Because you’re a horrible person.
And who tf writes the line saying that a character “looks like a puppy has just taken a dump in her mouth.” EXCUSE ME WHAT? Immediately stopped reading. I am unable to even try to keep going after this.
Overall, the writing was bad, it was inconsistent, and the characters (Charlie) were appalling.
At a whopping 5% we are introduced to our male MC (Charlie) and I almost quit the book after one sentence. Who in their right mind uses the term “moobs” as a self-descriptor? Followed by a comparison of his comedy act to the human gestation period? Hard pass.
Then we get to his actual comedy act for Jake’s stag night and honestly the comedy wasn’t funny AT ALL. Charlie blames it on Americans not getting British humor but… if it’s not funny then it’s just not funny. The joke about the harem and the Me Too “apocalypse” was so UN-funny I thought I must be missing something and I reread it only to discover that it was, in fact, meant to be a joke… If you ask me, this book is a joke.
Once Charlie and Sarah meet, it just keeps snowballing into toxicity. Charlie is an asshole and then wonders why she’s mad at him? Because you’re a horrible person.
And who tf writes the line saying that a character “looks like a puppy has just taken a dump in her mouth.” EXCUSE ME WHAT? Immediately stopped reading. I am unable to even try to keep going after this.
Overall, the writing was bad, it was inconsistent, and the characters (Charlie) were appalling.