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A review by inuyasha
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
1.0
the worst thing about this book is that it tried to convince me two capricorns could ever be together.
not romantic enough to be a romance book and not funny enough to be a romcom. a zero purpose, fluff book which isn't always a bad thing except it was so boring and honestly? very weird. there is, no joke, a scene where the main characters play-fight and the female lead ends up seductively eating a banana in the middle of it. i wish i could give you literally anymore context, but there is none.
some other weird things:
- giving a white character corn rows
- questionable use of indian culture played for laughs
- too much time given to too many side characters
- the whole "oh my god, look at how many times these characters almost met but never did" thing is like, nice in fanfic but in most cases (and in this one especially) is such a cheap ploy to fake the emotional depth of romance so you can pretend your main characters don't have the allure of wet cardboard
in all fairness, i could tell from 20% in that this was not going to end well for me, but i got invited to a new book club and this is the book for the first meeting I'm attending and i didn't want to show up and be the dick who didn't actually read the pick.
not romantic enough to be a romance book and not funny enough to be a romcom. a zero purpose, fluff book which isn't always a bad thing except it was so boring and honestly? very weird. there is, no joke, a scene where the main characters play-fight and the female lead ends up seductively eating a banana in the middle of it. i wish i could give you literally anymore context, but there is none.
some other weird things:
- giving a white character corn rows
- questionable use of indian culture played for laughs
- too much time given to too many side characters
- the whole "oh my god, look at how many times these characters almost met but never did" thing is like, nice in fanfic but in most cases (and in this one especially) is such a cheap ploy to fake the emotional depth of romance so you can pretend your main characters don't have the allure of wet cardboard
in all fairness, i could tell from 20% in that this was not going to end well for me, but i got invited to a new book club and this is the book for the first meeting I'm attending and i didn't want to show up and be the dick who didn't actually read the pick.