A review by kim03
Moonlight by Lisa Kessler

2.0

So. I genuinely believe I've read worse. But. Here's what I didn't like.
  • Every single character (but especially the side characters) are blank sheets of paper. I generally had problems with the characters. The main two were both dumb and annoying, the whole cast of characters had either the most basic name or a variation/ "uncommon" version. I was sick of it. All the twins seemed to be legally bound to have names that started with the same letter (Adam and aren, gabe and Gareth, Jared and Jason, and so forth).
  • The plot. All over the place. But i have to admit that at some point it was just funny. Someone is dying on page and I could not stop laughing at the ridiculousness of the book and the fact that i could not care less about any of the characters (probably because they're blank).
  • The feelings between the main characters progressed at a place that did not seem realistic to me. It seems to me the author tried to "show" but failed at that so often that she used "tell" as a backup. Plus, who falls in love in two days (when their not even forced into close proximity)??
  • It was absolutely weird to me that he called his father by first name. I don't even like my father and i would do that.
  • The MMC is categorized as a player (why obviously changes with the meet cute - which wasn't cute in my opinion). That bothered me. He was kind of smarmy like that.
  • So much of this book didn't make sense.
some examples: Adam and aren (Adams twin) ride the plane back (don't know where) after he was shot in the ankle. No one seems worried about the blood. The MMC considers himself a prize (absolutely laughable). Some talk about Y chromosomes to sort of insert some sense of biology and science and logic and in conclusion make it sound smart (absolute fail); that sounded illogical. The heroine being sort of afraid how the hero would react to her actions in a way that is almost but not quite toxic; as in she does something stupid and worries he's going to be mad, which i think is a red flag but what do I know. aren showing up in [wherever the main couple] is out of nowhere (the main couple just traveled there by plane). And I saved the best for last: "I loved him enough to leave him." No comment needed.

That's stupid. Is this camera on? - That's stupid!!

But there is a good side to this. And it is mostly that i can now reread my funny-as-hell comments in the eBook. They always make my day brighter.