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A review by melmelbinkss
In a Jam by Kate Canterbary
2.0
Predictable and so so very long.
There were cute moments in this book and I didn’t hate it by any means, but it did a whole lot of trying to elude to some big reveal that never exactly happened, followed by casual contradictions.
One moment you’d be reading from Noah’s POV as he drawled on about how every time he’s around Shay he can barely speak (you’re 32 Noah PLEASE) and is so incredibly shy, and then in the same breath when reading Shay’s POV he’s giving her a marriage proposal without a stutter. There were times where it felt like I was reading about a different love interest when switching between POV’s.
Never really got an actual explanation as to why he hated Shay’s guts in the beginning other than the simple fact that they… both moved away. Not just her. Both of them. After she explicitly told him she planned to move away. Meanwhile she has the worst memory, and apparently recalls almost none of any of this. Allegedly she is too busy buying funky earrings and being oblivious to social queues to have the brain space.
Lastly, the light speed jumps from having a normal conversation to him threatening to bend her over a table weren’t really believable. But perhaps I’m not used to men detailing the process of making jam and immediately asking and/or demanding me for sex.
Anyway, it was fine but I will probably forget most of it by tomorrow. I added a star for this single piece of dialogue from our favorite 7 going on 27 year old Gennie:
“She snapped her fingers at one of the chickens. “Get away from me, Dumbass.””
There were cute moments in this book and I didn’t hate it by any means, but it did a whole lot of trying to elude to some big reveal that never exactly happened, followed by casual contradictions.
One moment you’d be reading from Noah’s POV as he drawled on about how every time he’s around Shay he can barely speak (you’re 32 Noah PLEASE) and is so incredibly shy, and then in the same breath when reading Shay’s POV he’s giving her a marriage proposal without a stutter. There were times where it felt like I was reading about a different love interest when switching between POV’s.
Never really got an actual explanation as to why he hated Shay’s guts in the beginning other than the simple fact that they… both moved away. Not just her. Both of them. After she explicitly told him she planned to move away. Meanwhile she has the worst memory, and apparently recalls almost none of any of this. Allegedly she is too busy buying funky earrings and being oblivious to social queues to have the brain space.
Lastly, the light speed jumps from having a normal conversation to him threatening to bend her over a table weren’t really believable. But perhaps I’m not used to men detailing the process of making jam and immediately asking and/or demanding me for sex.
Anyway, it was fine but I will probably forget most of it by tomorrow. I added a star for this single piece of dialogue from our favorite 7 going on 27 year old Gennie:
“She snapped her fingers at one of the chickens. “Get away from me, Dumbass.””