lilyhux 's review for:

A Night Like This by Julia Quinn

2.5

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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He’s, ugh, a lil fucking rapey. He meets her, didn’t ask for her name, neither one of them have said anything and he kisses her, excuse me? Where’s the consent? Where’s the hello my name is. then he spends the next hundred pages trying to fuck her while she’s like ‘yeah no Ill loose my job if you try and fuck me’ and he’s like ‘na actually I don’t care’. This book just tried to jam in so many story lines it’s crazy, like they both have some dark backstories with people wanting to kill them and it’s too much drama (how am I saying that?). it’s just really dark, she nearly gets like r-worded like 4 times and nearly murdered. The last book was so cutsie and I thought this was gonna be such a chill series because of it, in reality this book is just a stark contracts to the previous ‘friends to lovers who really like sweet treats’ book, how is this the same series? Their love also felt one note to me, it was never really developed beyond love at first sight. I say all this but I guess I was entertained, I mean it doesn’t lack a dramatic story which is good I guess but I mean, I struggled.