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The Love Interest
by Cale Dietrich
Thank you so much to the FFBC for allowing me to be a part of this blog tour & especially choosing me for a review. I was really looking forward to this novel and I’m very glad I got the chance to tell everyone about it!
So if you didn’t read the synopsis, this novel is about a secret spy agency that trains males (and females) to become love interest for a certain person to be of importance to the world. They are basically to get the person to fall for them, so their lover can spy on them to the government. Two of them are chosen to rival each other, so that the person is forced to choose their love partner for life. Whoever doesn’t win the love interest’s heart is killed. Things start to get complicated when the main character Caden, falls for his rival, Dylan.
This book was pretty much un-putdownable for me. If that’s even a word. This is how contemporaries always work for me. I’m sucked into the story and I have to see how it all ends. I read this book in like two days, I was so engrossed in the plot. That’s always a good thing to see in books, it pulling you in and keeping you along for the ride.
What I liked about this book was the characters. They were all so real and had such great and well developed voices. I loved all of them and almost wished I had a POV for the whole gang of them. Especially a Dylan point of view!! I would have LOVED to see inside his head. Even Juliet’s – she was so smart and extremely interesting.
This was one of those light and easy reads that can get you out of a slump. I’d been having a lot of trouble trying to get into books but when I received this e-arc, I dove right in and pretty much didn’t stop until I finished. I have no doubt in my mind that this book will do the same to any readers. It’s just so good, and keeps you interested and anxious for what will happen next.
I have to admit this book had me on edge a lot. I was so frustrated with the weird love triangle that was going. I wanted both of the boys to win because I didn’t want either of them to die. It also brought me quite the emotional pain, so don’t go into this book thinking it’s all fluff. The author really knows how to make a reader frustrated, let me tell you!
My only negative thoughts, and some criticism on the book is how it all ended. The book had great pacing, in my opinion, up until the very end. Things went downhill and concluded so fast that I didn’t really have time to understand what was going on and get a chance to think over what was happening. So if anything, I wish the ending was dragged out a bit more. I feel like more time to defeat the bad guys and come to an epic conclusion would have been beneficial to the story. Perhaps that will be fixed in the final copy, as I did read an e-arc. Maybe even extending the novel to a sequel could have changed things.
I actually really would look forward to a sequel in this world, because I thought it was really interesting, the whole spy agency. I want them to continue to fight The Love Interest corporation. I want to see more of Juliet and her brilliant inventions, more of the boys and their complicated love. After the epilogue, though, it seems like the story came to a close. Overall though, I did adore this story. It didn’t disappoint as an anticipated novel of this year. I just wish there had been more!
So if you didn’t read the synopsis, this novel is about a secret spy agency that trains males (and females) to become love interest for a certain person to be of importance to the world. They are basically to get the person to fall for them, so their lover can spy on them to the government. Two of them are chosen to rival each other, so that the person is forced to choose their love partner for life. Whoever doesn’t win the love interest’s heart is killed. Things start to get complicated when the main character Caden, falls for his rival, Dylan.
This book was pretty much un-putdownable for me. If that’s even a word. This is how contemporaries always work for me. I’m sucked into the story and I have to see how it all ends. I read this book in like two days, I was so engrossed in the plot. That’s always a good thing to see in books, it pulling you in and keeping you along for the ride.
What I liked about this book was the characters. They were all so real and had such great and well developed voices. I loved all of them and almost wished I had a POV for the whole gang of them. Especially a Dylan point of view!! I would have LOVED to see inside his head. Even Juliet’s – she was so smart and extremely interesting.
This was one of those light and easy reads that can get you out of a slump. I’d been having a lot of trouble trying to get into books but when I received this e-arc, I dove right in and pretty much didn’t stop until I finished. I have no doubt in my mind that this book will do the same to any readers. It’s just so good, and keeps you interested and anxious for what will happen next.
I have to admit this book had me on edge a lot. I was so frustrated with the weird love triangle that was going. I wanted both of the boys to win because I didn’t want either of them to die. It also brought me quite the emotional pain, so don’t go into this book thinking it’s all fluff. The author really knows how to make a reader frustrated, let me tell you!
My only negative thoughts, and some criticism on the book is how it all ended. The book had great pacing, in my opinion, up until the very end. Things went downhill and concluded so fast that I didn’t really have time to understand what was going on and get a chance to think over what was happening. So if anything, I wish the ending was dragged out a bit more. I feel like more time to defeat the bad guys and come to an epic conclusion would have been beneficial to the story. Perhaps that will be fixed in the final copy, as I did read an e-arc. Maybe even extending the novel to a sequel could have changed things.
I actually really would look forward to a sequel in this world, because I thought it was really interesting, the whole spy agency. I want them to continue to fight The Love Interest corporation. I want to see more of Juliet and her brilliant inventions, more of the boys and their complicated love. After the epilogue, though, it seems like the story came to a close. Overall though, I did adore this story. It didn’t disappoint as an anticipated novel of this year. I just wish there had been more!