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A review by jade_ls_lee
The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
4.0
Okay, so I finally got my hands on this! And you know what? It was amazing, fight me if you wish.
I was kind of worried after the first reviews came in after the release. Such a disappointment, bla bla bla, so I was ready for this to go to hell but still had hope god dammit.
And yes!! YESSSSSS this worked for me. Let me quote Emi Miranda's review for a bit here:
This was never going to be a serious book! Why are y'all geting your panties in the twist over the not realistic things and messy plot? Seriously, the whole point of this book was to parody the genre, it's so meta I can't even.
And you expected dark backstory and even darker current events? Oh yes, nothing more sets up a joke about YA tropes than basically brainwashed and enslaved characters. That would be sooo fun.
I think you can tell, I'm enjoying my salty gay tea here. So get over it. Either you are ready to embrace silliness on all acounts from this book or just don't read it at all. I'm quite sad that this is geting so many bad ratings, because it's good on it's own way!
So let's get to the point: IT WAS EVERYTHING I WANTED.
* I don't think Caden was boring
* I totally went down with that ship and his chemistry with Dyl was amazing
* Juliet was amazing!! She has a mad scientist lab! AND IS WORKING ON A BLACK WIDOW SUIT??! I'm sorry, I need a second to breathe.
*Couldn't stop reading, finished the book in 7 hours
* Don't even start me on part II ending, that sucker punch right in the guts got me doubling over with feels. I think I walked it off for at least 10 minutes
*The perfect writing on Caden realising he has more than platonic feelings and suddenly understanding some encounters from the past. Hell to the yeah, #ownvoices!
Yes, yes, this didn't get 5 stars, because there were some messy things.
*some dialogues were very awkward [but after a while I just written that off to meta. That indeed sounded like pretentious paranormal YA novel from the year 2010.]
*partIII sudenly kicked in all the action and "bigger things" so it felt like I was reading an ending for a different book.
*for a while I was annoyed by the unlogical procedure to kill the unsuccessful Love Interests, but they kind of referred to it in the end.
So yeah, it was a wild ride, and maybe not in the way I was expecting but I certainly enjoyed it and regret nothing.
I was kind of worried after the first reviews came in after the release. Such a disappointment, bla bla bla, so I was ready for this to go to hell but still had hope god dammit.
And yes!! YESSSSSS this worked for me. Let me quote Emi Miranda's review for a bit here:
This book was the YA equivalent to a low budget movie. Within the first few pages, I realized this and changed all my expectations. This wasn't going to be a James Bond film. Instead, it was gonna be that one spy movie starring Hailee Steinfeld and the girl from Game of Thrones .
This was never going to be a serious book! Why are y'all geting your panties in the twist over the not realistic things and messy plot? Seriously, the whole point of this book was to parody the genre, it's so meta I can't even.
And you expected dark backstory and even darker current events? Oh yes, nothing more sets up a joke about YA tropes than basically brainwashed and enslaved characters. That would be sooo fun.
I think you can tell, I'm enjoying my salty gay tea here. So get over it. Either you are ready to embrace silliness on all acounts from this book or just don't read it at all. I'm quite sad that this is geting so many bad ratings, because it's good on it's own way!
So let's get to the point: IT WAS EVERYTHING I WANTED.
* I don't think Caden was boring
* I totally went down with that ship and his chemistry with Dyl was amazing
* Juliet was amazing!! She has a mad scientist lab! AND IS WORKING ON A BLACK WIDOW SUIT??! I'm sorry, I need a second to breathe.
*Couldn't stop reading, finished the book in 7 hours
* Don't even start me on part II ending, that sucker punch right in the guts got me doubling over with feels. I think I walked it off for at least 10 minutes
*The perfect writing on Caden realising he has more than platonic feelings and suddenly understanding some encounters from the past. Hell to the yeah, #ownvoices!
Yes, yes, this didn't get 5 stars, because there were some messy things.
*some dialogues were very awkward [but after a while I just written that off to meta. That indeed sounded like pretentious paranormal YA novel from the year 2010.]
*partIII sudenly kicked in all the action and "bigger things" so it felt like I was reading an ending for a different book.
*for a while I was annoyed by the unlogical procedure to kill the unsuccessful Love Interests, but they kind of referred to it in the end.
So yeah, it was a wild ride, and maybe not in the way I was expecting but I certainly enjoyed it and regret nothing.