A review by the_rabble
Someone to Watch Over Me by Lisa Kleypas

challenging dark slow-paced

• Strong character development? No

1.5

Rough. It's Kleypas, so it's very readable and charming, but damn. I feel a bit icky having finished it.

Consent issues and slut shaming abound.

This was like a very dark twist on the 80s movie Overboard. Which is already kind of a dark premise.

[Halfway] Bros, don't

bang women who don't remember their entire lives.

That just feels like common sense. 

All my issues are around how these characters treat someone with memory loss and denigrate sex workers. The consent and poorly thought out vengeance plots also aren't great.

The sex scenes were well written ([Sex scenes]

he goes down on her like a champ- it's great.

) even some of the romance is very sweet (though, in addition to being a terrible investigator, this man has zero game. And not like in a cute way. At one point I believe he tells her "I'm the last thing you'll ever see in this life," as like a comforting thing. That's just fully a threat, right? Best case scenario, I think the youths would call it 'yandere.')

Cleanly written, rough internal monologues, brutal plot.