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sateem326 's review for:
Girl in Luv
by Rebecca Yarros, Jay Crownover
The premise of this book was really interesting to me, however, the execution of it failed miserably.
All the characters felt unrealistically one dimensional. The villains of the story had no redeeming quality whatsoever, and every single person in that rich society had the exact same personality except for our main heroine.
Langley is supposedly looking for a "bad boy" that will shake the wedding and ruin it for her stepsister just by being there. Then she does everything she can to make Iker look as if he belonged there.
✔ His tattoos? covered by a $5,000 suit.
✔ His lack of manners? let's have a five-course meal where I teach you how to properly drink soup, and differentiate between a Salad fork and a dinner fork.
So, how in hell will Iker earn his whopping $10,000 payment? by JUST being there standing beside her and looking like the most handsome man to ever exist so that no one will be paying attention to the bride as they are too busy checking out Iker.
Iker puts Langley on the highest pedestal for the absolute bare minimum of human decency. He takes her to a laser tag game and volunteers the info of him not liking dark places and sudden light flashes due to his time in Afganistan, so she asks if he wants to go somewhere else instead. His internal monologue afterward was, and I quote:
Nevermind that he's the one who chose the place and she expressed no interest in it from the start.
And I won't even start on the events of the laser tag game itself, cause I'm still in awe of the ridiculousness of what happened. I'm sorry, but could someone confirm the age of the authors? cause I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that no teenagers were consulted here.
This book ends with a cliffhanger, so I tried to pick up the next book and promptly DNF'ed it at the 29% mark as I don't hate myself enough to go through that torture.
All the characters felt unrealistically one dimensional. The villains of the story had no redeeming quality whatsoever, and every single person in that rich society had the exact same personality except for our main heroine.
Langley is supposedly looking for a "bad boy" that will shake the wedding and ruin it for her stepsister just by being there. Then she does everything she can to make Iker look as if he belonged there.
✔ His tattoos? covered by a $5,000 suit.
✔ His lack of manners? let's have a five-course meal where I teach you how to properly drink soup, and differentiate between a Salad fork and a dinner fork.
So, how in hell will Iker earn his whopping $10,000 payment? by JUST being there standing beside her and looking like the most handsome man to ever exist so that no one will be paying attention to the bride as they are too busy checking out Iker.
Iker puts Langley on the highest pedestal for the absolute bare minimum of human decency. He takes her to a laser tag game and volunteers the info of him not liking dark places and sudden light flashes due to his time in Afganistan, so she asks if he wants to go somewhere else instead. His internal monologue afterward was, and I quote:
“See, she was so damn sweet. And considerate. She barely knew me and she was worried about me. Worried about how I might react to something that might make me uncomfortable. No one, aside from my small family, had cared about my comfort and mental well-being in a long time.”
Nevermind that he's the one who chose the place and she expressed no interest in it from the start.
And I won't even start on the events of the laser tag game itself, cause I'm still in awe of the ridiculousness of what happened. I'm sorry, but could someone confirm the age of the authors? cause I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that no teenagers were consulted here.
This book ends with a cliffhanger, so I tried to pick up the next book and promptly DNF'ed it at the 29% mark as I don't hate myself enough to go through that torture.