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A review by aleksandrareading
Forbidden Hearts by Corinne Michaels
1.0
dnf 40%
I can't do this anymore, so time of death forty percent of the book. I was almost halfway through the story, but I don't think I'm strong enough to continue.
Forbidden Hearts was supposed to be a really cute, small town, nanny, single dad, grumpy/ sunshine, age-gap, forbidden romance, but instead everything about this book annoyed me. Let’s start from the "forbidden" trope. Being a nanny and your boss daughter doesn’t make you forbidden. Your boss is not gonna kill you if you decide to be with his daughter. Just talk with him and that’s it. You are living in a small town and he likes you. He is not a mafia boss, so chill.
The next is trope is grumpy/ sunshine — our heroine Phoebe was not a sunshine character. She was just irresponsible and clumsy, which doesn't make her a sunshine character. And, most importantly, she was just plain stupid. Imagine staying overnight at your employer's on your first day at work because you're his daughter's new nanny, and you decide to wear skimpy pajamas and sing loud enough for your "boss" to hear you.
And you can't even sing. I'd be as quiet as I can, especially when your boss already has a bad opinion of you after you failed to take care of his kid once.
The second situation — still about our heroine, unfortunately — the father of the girl you are nannying gives you his credit card to buy something for his daughter, and you put it right in front of him in your bra. Are you not embarrassed? I don't know if it is me, but I could never. This is the last thing, there's probably more but I couldn't read any further.
Moving on to the romance part — it was just boring, probably because I didn't feel any tension and chemistry between the two main characters. The hero was even okay, but the heroine annoyed me, so that's probably why.
Corinne Michaels was a new author for me, so I didn't know exactly what to expect, but after reading this book I think that unfortunately her stories are probably not for me.
I can't do this anymore, so time of death forty percent of the book. I was almost halfway through the story, but I don't think I'm strong enough to continue.
Forbidden Hearts was supposed to be a really cute, small town, nanny, single dad, grumpy/ sunshine, age-gap, forbidden romance, but instead everything about this book annoyed me. Let’s start from the "forbidden" trope. Being a nanny and your boss daughter doesn’t make you forbidden. Your boss is not gonna kill you if you decide to be with his daughter. Just talk with him and that’s it. You are living in a small town and he likes you. He is not a mafia boss, so chill.
The next is trope is grumpy/ sunshine — our heroine Phoebe was not a sunshine character. She was just irresponsible and clumsy, which doesn't make her a sunshine character. And, most importantly, she was just plain stupid. Imagine staying overnight at your employer's on your first day at work because you're his daughter's new nanny, and you decide to wear skimpy pajamas and sing loud enough for your "boss" to hear you.
"Seriously, what the hell is that sound? A cat dying? No, cats don’t say words or try to sing them."
And you can't even sing. I'd be as quiet as I can, especially when your boss already has a bad opinion of you after you failed to take care of his kid once.
The second situation — still about our heroine, unfortunately — the father of the girl you are nannying gives you his credit card to buy something for his daughter, and you put it right in front of him in your bra. Are you not embarrassed? I don't know if it is me, but I could never. This is the last thing, there's probably more but I couldn't read any further.
Moving on to the romance part — it was just boring, probably because I didn't feel any tension and chemistry between the two main characters. The hero was even okay, but the heroine annoyed me, so that's probably why.
Corinne Michaels was a new author for me, so I didn't know exactly what to expect, but after reading this book I think that unfortunately her stories are probably not for me.