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A review by futurememory
Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai
3.0
What a sweet little ending to the entirety of this series! I feel like I enjoyed this one a lot more for its meta elements where it connected everything together in the previous two books, than for its central pairing. Nothing was particularly wrong with the FMC or the MMC, but their story felt a bit more rushed than the first two books.
As always, the mental health rep in this book is excellent. In that regard, the characters feel so real and their emotions are always carefully explored and complicated. Eve and Gabe are both nuanced characters; I just wasn’t rooting for them the way I rooted for Jackson and Sadia. I think the fact that this book had to spend a bit of time wrapping up all of the familial politics and mysteries took away from the focus of our central main couple. I loved all that extra plot, but it actually caused me to feel like Eve and Gabe’s romance wasn’t fleshed out enough. This book almost needed to be longer.
That being said, the overall conclusion was satisfying, and getting all the mysteries resolved felt really good.
As always, the mental health rep in this book is excellent. In that regard, the characters feel so real and their emotions are always carefully explored and complicated. Eve and Gabe are both nuanced characters; I just wasn’t rooting for them the way I rooted for Jackson and Sadia. I think the fact that this book had to spend a bit of time wrapping up all of the familial politics and mysteries took away from the focus of our central main couple. I loved all that extra plot, but it actually caused me to feel like Eve and Gabe’s romance wasn’t fleshed out enough. This book almost needed to be longer.
That being said, the overall conclusion was satisfying, and getting all the mysteries resolved felt really good.