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A review by becksgoesbookish
Assist by L.A. Witt
3.0
This is my third LA Witt book and every time about half way in I remember that their writing style just isn’t for me. But I keep hoping the next book will be different so that’s on me.
The writing is just way too repetitive and the plots too sluggishly slow. Sentences will be repeated back to back with the word order changed, eg: “It’s been a few weeks since XYZ happened. Since XYZ happened a few weeks ago…”
It also almost felt like we spent way too much time being told about their time apart bc of hockey, and then they’d have planned meet ups, but we were just told about them in the past and not shown them on page. I get that it’s probably more realisticly aligned with the grueling nhl schedule, but also it’s fiction so I’m willing to bend reality a bit more so they can spend more time together on page.
Honestly Keith really deserved better all around. I guess it all works out in the end but also kinda not really. And that is the delicate balance that is required in poly books that just wasn’t fully realized for me in this one.
Also even though it’s a story told in 3 POV’s Nick J Russo narrates 2 characters, so it was sometimes difficult keeping track of who was who. I’d have preferred if one narrator did all 3 characters, as it seemed odd to have 2 narrators for 3 characters.
The writing is just way too repetitive and the plots too sluggishly slow. Sentences will be repeated back to back with the word order changed, eg: “It’s been a few weeks since XYZ happened. Since XYZ happened a few weeks ago…”
It also almost felt like we spent way too much time being told about their time apart bc of hockey, and then they’d have planned meet ups, but we were just told about them in the past and not shown them on page. I get that it’s probably more realisticly aligned with the grueling nhl schedule, but also it’s fiction so I’m willing to bend reality a bit more so they can spend more time together on page.
Honestly Keith really deserved better all around. I guess it all works out in the end but also kinda not really. And that is the delicate balance that is required in poly books that just wasn’t fully realized for me in this one.
Also even though it’s a story told in 3 POV’s Nick J Russo narrates 2 characters, so it was sometimes difficult keeping track of who was who. I’d have preferred if one narrator did all 3 characters, as it seemed odd to have 2 narrators for 3 characters.