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A review by malpal132
Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
3.5
what i liked:
-interesting exploration of mmc who has significant mental illness
-fucking amazing metaphors and imagery (the pink house?! come on.)
-beautiful insights into how a people-pleasing person is in a relationship
-did i mention the metaphors go crazy
what i didn't like:
-already mentioned, but jesus christ do i hate the beginning of her books. her fmcs are doormats in a really annoying way that is maybe triggering for me personally, lol.
-there's a sense of unreality? like where are they getting all this money from to do the renovations. i don't necessarily need my rom coms to be believable but i think this one is just divorced enough from real life that i found myself feeling untethered.
-i was waiting for them to really dig into what happened to her aunt and for there to be more meat to that aspect of the story, but there just wasn't.
-the mmc kind of gave me the ick lmao and i don't think it's because he wasn't smooth or because he had major anxiety and panic attacks or even because he's a virgin. i think it's a combination of the author not being great (or confident maybe?) at writing physical intimacy. it's fade to black and idk...i just kind of saw him as sexless. it didn't feel like they had very good physical chemistry.
-the pacing was a bit odd. we're like 22%ish percent into the book and they haven't had an actual conversation yet??? idk. that aspect went a little slow for me.
-i think, ultimately, that their actions didn't feel very natural from my perspective. and maybe that's because the fmc is so completely different from who i am so when she got her catharsis i was like bitch, that's not enough. lololol. overall enjoyed it but also felt a little frustrated and weird about it. the middle was real good tho.
-interesting exploration of mmc who has significant mental illness
-fucking amazing metaphors and imagery (the pink house?! come on.)
-beautiful insights into how a people-pleasing person is in a relationship
-did i mention the metaphors go crazy
what i didn't like:
-already mentioned, but jesus christ do i hate the beginning of her books. her fmcs are doormats in a really annoying way that is maybe triggering for me personally, lol.
-there's a sense of unreality? like where are they getting all this money from to do the renovations. i don't necessarily need my rom coms to be believable but i think this one is just divorced enough from real life that i found myself feeling untethered.
-i was waiting for them to really dig into what happened to her aunt and for there to be more meat to that aspect of the story, but there just wasn't.
-the mmc kind of gave me the ick lmao and i don't think it's because he wasn't smooth or because he had major anxiety and panic attacks or even because he's a virgin. i think it's a combination of the author not being great (or confident maybe?) at writing physical intimacy. it's fade to black and idk...i just kind of saw him as sexless. it didn't feel like they had very good physical chemistry.
-the pacing was a bit odd. we're like 22%ish percent into the book and they haven't had an actual conversation yet??? idk. that aspect went a little slow for me.
-i think, ultimately, that their actions didn't feel very natural from my perspective. and maybe that's because the fmc is so completely different from who i am so when she got her catharsis i was like bitch, that's not enough. lololol. overall enjoyed it but also felt a little frustrated and weird about it. the middle was real good tho.