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cassddms 's review for:
Love Online
by Penelope Ward
OKAY, I was super pumped for this release so I'm just going to get right to it now that I've sped through finishing.
Ryder has no problem getting girls. He can get whoever he wants. The problem has always been that it has never gone beyond the superficial level. Girls had always focused on his looks and money but never took the time to focus on him as a person. Ryder's loneliness gets the better of him one night when he's online and he ends up finding Eden's cam girl profile. She's singing when he tunes in and he knows that this girl is not someone he should let pass him by. He stays with her longer and realizes that while other's are there for NSFW reasons, he is intrigued by her as a person.
Eden does what she has to, to pay her bills, even if it isn't something she's happy about. When Ryder and her cross paths, she is confused by the relationship they begin to form in the last place she would ever expect. The two have some major issues to work through on their own in order to figure out what the next move is for them as a pair and when life catches up and they can't play things day by day, they have to settle down and make some decisions. But waiting for the other shoe to drop can sometimes be a form of self-sabotage if you're not careful.
Hmm.... I don't know how I feel about this.
I wanted to love this. I have someone who I love so much, who I met online... and this book just reminded me of when him and I met. It still reminded me of him in some aspects even to the end of the book, but I really felt it much more at the beginning of their connection. Tangled was one of the first movies my friend and I streamed together online and when I saw that the lead male's name was Ryder I was just liking this book so much without even reading it. It was one weird coincidence after the other.
I liked it.... but sometimes Penelope Ward's books don't play out well in my head. I try to go along with what happens, understanding that people have a different way of creating a conversation between characters and in their own, personal lives. But sometimes it feels like she does the whole "search for synonyms" thing on Microsoft and subs in words or phrases that no one uses in casual conversation. It isn't a big deal and it's hard to overlook, but it's happened a few other times in other books I've read and I'm just too aware of it now to ignore it.
My issue was really just the pacing. Everything felt like it was moving on fast forward at like 2x the speed it should've been moving at. Which like... okay. No one can tell you how long you gotta wait to decide whether or not you love someone or want to spend your life with them or any other romantic decision you must make with your partner. HOWEVER... under these circumstances specifically I just didn't feel it working. These two were just too good to be true in a borderline cheesy way. All the flying back and forth and the gentle touches and whatever we just so textbook in the romance world. Ryder meets Ollie and Ollie immediately trusts him, yet Eden was scared to bring Ryder into Ollie's life, to begin with because they'd been left by the men of their past. I understood and respected that. But then she just says fuck it and brings Ryder in anyways. Obviously, at first she had very little choice... but she didn't do much to slow down Ollie and Ryder's connection in case things didn't work out. I just needed Penelope to slow down a little and let this play out properly instead of just banging it out left and right.
Ryder has no problem getting girls. He can get whoever he wants. The problem has always been that it has never gone beyond the superficial level. Girls had always focused on his looks and money but never took the time to focus on him as a person. Ryder's loneliness gets the better of him one night when he's online and he ends up finding Eden's cam girl profile. She's singing when he tunes in and he knows that this girl is not someone he should let pass him by. He stays with her longer and realizes that while other's are there for NSFW reasons, he is intrigued by her as a person.
Eden does what she has to, to pay her bills, even if it isn't something she's happy about. When Ryder and her cross paths, she is confused by the relationship they begin to form in the last place she would ever expect. The two have some major issues to work through on their own in order to figure out what the next move is for them as a pair and when life catches up and they can't play things day by day, they have to settle down and make some decisions. But waiting for the other shoe to drop can sometimes be a form of self-sabotage if you're not careful.
Hmm.... I don't know how I feel about this.
I wanted to love this. I have someone who I love so much, who I met online... and this book just reminded me of when him and I met. It still reminded me of him in some aspects even to the end of the book, but I really felt it much more at the beginning of their connection. Tangled was one of the first movies my friend and I streamed together online and when I saw that the lead male's name was Ryder I was just liking this book so much without even reading it. It was one weird coincidence after the other.
I liked it.... but sometimes Penelope Ward's books don't play out well in my head. I try to go along with what happens, understanding that people have a different way of creating a conversation between characters and in their own, personal lives. But sometimes it feels like she does the whole "search for synonyms" thing on Microsoft and subs in words or phrases that no one uses in casual conversation. It isn't a big deal and it's hard to overlook, but it's happened a few other times in other books I've read and I'm just too aware of it now to ignore it.
My issue was really just the pacing. Everything felt like it was moving on fast forward at like 2x the speed it should've been moving at. Which like... okay. No one can tell you how long you gotta wait to decide whether or not you love someone or want to spend your life with them or any other romantic decision you must make with your partner. HOWEVER... under these circumstances specifically I just didn't feel it working. These two were just too good to be true in a borderline cheesy way. All the flying back and forth and the gentle touches and whatever we just so textbook in the romance world. Ryder meets Ollie and Ollie immediately trusts him, yet Eden was scared to bring Ryder into Ollie's life, to begin with because they'd been left by the men of their past. I understood and respected that. But then she just says fuck it and brings Ryder in anyways. Obviously, at first she had very little choice... but she didn't do much to slow down Ollie and Ryder's connection in case things didn't work out. I just needed Penelope to slow down a little and let this play out properly instead of just banging it out left and right.