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A review by rudera01
We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley
2.0
I should say that, despite my rating, the writing was fine overall and I finished it pretty quickly. However --
SPOILERS BELOW
This ending really made me mad. The entire book was built up that I thought William was going to be one of the most vile sociopaths in existent. I didn't buy his motivations for coming back to marry Catherine. And at the end we are supposed to accept he's going away and they get a nice clean ending - he won't want to see his kid or hold that over her for money? It felt like the author had a page limit and once she hit it she said "wrap it up! that's it!"
One final thing -- I really REALLY thought that the kids taking violin lessons were being molested by William. Why spend SO MUCH time on how freaked out and uneasy Max is, only to find out that William was just too hard on him?
I was not attached or empathetic to the main character at all. It bugged me that she ended up with a pretty happy life and her sister just gives her $10 million. Must be nice.
SPOILERS BELOW
Spoiler
This ending really made me mad. The entire book was built up that I thought William was going to be one of the most vile sociopaths in existent. I didn't buy his motivations for coming back to marry Catherine. And at the end we are supposed to accept he's going away and they get a nice clean ending - he won't want to see his kid or hold that over her for money? It felt like the author had a page limit and once she hit it she said "wrap it up! that's it!"
One final thing -- I really REALLY thought that the kids taking violin lessons were being molested by William. Why spend SO MUCH time on how freaked out and uneasy Max is, only to find out that William was just too hard on him?
I was not attached or empathetic to the main character at all. It bugged me that she ended up with a pretty happy life and her sister just gives her $10 million. Must be nice.