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A review by mar_reads7
Powerless by Elsie Silver
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
I need people to stop writing childhood friends to lovers with age gaps larger than 2 or 3 years, ideally it should be the same age, but this book had a 6 year age gap, 6!!!! and yes the book keeps saying that she was love with him the whole time but he only saw her as a friend until something changed when she was 18 but even then, how are you as a 24 year old man in love with an 18 year old? I don't believe that, it's weird, also yes I'm hypocrite because the age gap in book 2 was 25 and 38 and I loved that books, but those people were both adults, also they had loads of chemistry, whcih I never felt reading this book. At some point Jasper explaines to Sloane that he pulled away from her because her dad made a bunch of threats pertaining to his career, Sloane's father motivation in keeping them apart is solely based in classism and has nothing to do with them having met when she was 9 and he was 15, and from that point onwards he kept saying being told he couldn't have her was the catalyst for his feelings developing, and I kept wondering if he actually liked her or if he wanted her because he was told he couldn't have her. Because those things aren't the same, and it definitely felt like the second option. Not to mention there was a lot of pent up sexual energy there but I felt almost no romantic chemistry, I skipped most of the sex scenes because I don't want to read sex without romance, and the connection was missing because it's hard to focus on the romance when Jasper kept saying Sloane had been his person all along and he was literally talking about her while she was 9 and he was 15. It felt gross. Reading this felt gross.
I do have minor complains about the marketing of this books trying to sell it as a hockey romance when there was barely any hockey in this at all. I know a lot of people prefer their sports romances without much sport, that used to be my preference too, but I'm changed my mind and I really didn't like how little hockey was in this. I also don't think the fact that Jasper was all but adopted into the Eaton family makes him and Sloane cousins, because she's extended family and he was 15 and the relationship he would develop with the Eaton's extended family would probably be more one where they're acquaintances at best. That being said the fact that everyone kept making cousins made me uncomfortable.
I really resent every single person who spoke of this book as if it was the epitome of childhood best friends to lovers because I love friends to lovers in all it's forms, but this was genuinely uncomfortable to read.
Personally I can't imagine I'll be reading the next book in this series because the 1st was boring and this one was awful, and yes I loved Heartless, but I'm not willing to take the gamble when the odds aren't in her favour.
I do have minor complains about the marketing of this books trying to sell it as a hockey romance when there was barely any hockey in this at all. I know a lot of people prefer their sports romances without much sport, that used to be my preference too, but I'm changed my mind and I really didn't like how little hockey was in this. I also don't think the fact that Jasper was all but adopted into the Eaton family makes him and Sloane cousins, because she's extended family and he was 15 and the relationship he would develop with the Eaton's extended family would probably be more one where they're acquaintances at best. That being said the fact that everyone kept making cousins made me uncomfortable.
I really resent every single person who spoke of this book as if it was the epitome of childhood best friends to lovers because I love friends to lovers in all it's forms, but this was genuinely uncomfortable to read.
Personally I can't imagine I'll be reading the next book in this series because the 1st was boring and this one was awful, and yes I loved Heartless, but I'm not willing to take the gamble when the odds aren't in her favour.