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claire_loves_books 's review for:

Shine Not Burn by Elle Casey
2.0

Everyone else loved this but I wasn't really feeling it, it was really quite cliched and relied heavily on unlikely events happening at the crucial moment. I liked Mack, he was nice and sweet but Andie was annoying, she was so determined to go after 'the lifeplan' that she wasn't even thinking about what she wanted or what might make her happy. She had the potential to be brilliant, we saw moments of her being kickass but mostly she just seemed to hide away that side of her personality and concentrate on trying to be dull, I actually preferred both her friends to her.

I also wasn't a huge fan of the sex scenes- I just prefer my characters to be saying yes not no (even if they both know they don't really mean no it still makes me uncomfortable because what if it did, someone got the wrong end of the stick and is absolutely convinced that no doesn't mean no while the other person is saying no and meaning no and has no idea what else to do).