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A review by nuttus
The Spark by Jules Wake
2.0
I’ll start with the few positives this book had, because it did have its moments. For a fluffy romance the main character had a refreshing personality that was not the exact same as most easy romance books have. She was kind and had an interesting backround that was explored a bit. Although she was guilt ridden abou everything possible and it started to get annoying. I also liked the difficult daughter-mother relationship she had. It was refreshing but sad reminder that not all mothers have the maturity and emotional ability to really let the children be children, even if they did try. That’s about all the positives I can come up with.
The negatives are way more abundant. The love story was juvenile and everything progressed unrealistically fast - after being together and knowing each other for a month, two tops they are house shopping and Sam proposes. I don’t care how much the book is trying to tell this is True Love, it is only proving Sam’s mom’s point of their thing being infatuation and a weird mid-life crisis. Because that’s what their whole relationship screamed to me being when both were acting juvenile and teenagers first love. I really would like a sequel where the thing crashed and burned and maybe after a few years of maturing picked up again. The way the romance was during the book got me questioning is the thing even healthy with everyone at Sam’s side hating and questioning the relationship. And I really understood their perspective, the whole thing about Sam’s behavior was screaming some sort of crisis. Well except for the crazy ex, whose point at the beginning was somewhat understandable and halfway if the book got obsessive.
The pacing in the book was off too. There was so much stuffed in the last 40 pages that I wished that some of the things would’ve started progressing sooner in the book. Almost all of it started feeling like an afterthought or filler with the author getting bored of her characters and just shoving them in a some sort of forced happily ever after.
Lastly I want to point my annoyance at the descriptions of the characters. Sam’s only personality was that he was muscular, hot and a pushover, Jess was super skinny and had small boobs that was let known at all times it being a huge negative. Everyone else described themselves fat and nasty and remembered to tell every time that Jess was so skinny and let her know about their jealousy about the fact. It was redundant, annoying and tone deaf.
The negatives are way more abundant. The love story was juvenile and everything progressed unrealistically fast - after being together and knowing each other for a month, two tops they are house shopping and Sam proposes. I don’t care how much the book is trying to tell this is True Love, it is only proving Sam’s mom’s point of their thing being infatuation and a weird mid-life crisis. Because that’s what their whole relationship screamed to me being when both were acting juvenile and teenagers first love. I really would like a sequel where the thing crashed and burned and maybe after a few years of maturing picked up again. The way the romance was during the book got me questioning is the thing even healthy with everyone at Sam’s side hating and questioning the relationship. And I really understood their perspective, the whole thing about Sam’s behavior was screaming some sort of crisis. Well except for the crazy ex, whose point at the beginning was somewhat understandable and halfway if the book got obsessive.
The pacing in the book was off too. There was so much stuffed in the last 40 pages that I wished that some of the things would’ve started progressing sooner in the book. Almost all of it started feeling like an afterthought or filler with the author getting bored of her characters and just shoving them in a some sort of forced happily ever after.
Lastly I want to point my annoyance at the descriptions of the characters. Sam’s only personality was that he was muscular, hot and a pushover, Jess was super skinny and had small boobs that was let known at all times it being a huge negative. Everyone else described themselves fat and nasty and remembered to tell every time that Jess was so skinny and let her know about their jealousy about the fact. It was redundant, annoying and tone deaf.