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Nothing Special
by Casey Cox
This is best friends to lovers, but in the most boring way possible.
These type of books are the reason why people don’t appreciate this trope enough.
Our main characters are Benji and Darren.
Benji is awkward, anxious, insecure, shy, antisocial, chubby, and a best-selling author.
Darren is charismatic, beautiful, adventurous, and a failed actor.
These two have been best friends for 10 years, but Darren has actually been in love with Benji the whole time. For reasons unknown, he never tells Benji about his feelings and instead has sex with every living breathing thing who is not Benji.
Ten years have passed and they are still just ‘besties’. Until, suddenly, Darren randomly decides to make a move, and they.. get together. The end.
The premise of this book in which Darren comes up with the idea to tell each other secrets to get to know each other on a whole new level (and hoping it would make Benji see him in a different way) seemed kind of cute, but was executed horribly. All of their ‘secrets’ ended up being sexually oriented and it was the least meaningful thing I’ve ever read. My idea of “opening up” does not consist of talking about dildos or revealing how often you jerk off. If this is the most in-depth you can get with your bestie of 10 years, then that is honestly just embarrassing. The whole endeavour was also over in like ten seconds flat, because they kissed really soon into the book, and then it just became boring as all hell.
The writing and characterization was incredibly superficial and very repetitive.
The whole thing was dry and almost analytical: there was absolutely no feeling to it, and I had no connection whatsoever to either main character.
The chemistry between these two was honestly just plain bad, and the tension was completely non-existent.
The plot was nothing more than boring, messy and weird.
I also felt like the book was constantly telling itself how ‘different’ it was from other books, which did nothing for me other than make me roll my eyes and cringe a whole lot.
I started skimming a bit after I was about halfway through this book, but I might as well have stopped reading it altogether, since none of it was worth it.
If it wasn’t obvious already: I didn’t enjoy this at all. I don’t think it had anything interesting going on.
**I received an ARC from Foreword PR & Marketing in exchange for an honest review**
These type of books are the reason why people don’t appreciate this trope enough.
Our main characters are Benji and Darren.
Benji is awkward, anxious, insecure, shy, antisocial, chubby, and a best-selling author.
Darren is charismatic, beautiful, adventurous, and a failed actor.
These two have been best friends for 10 years, but Darren has actually been in love with Benji the whole time. For reasons unknown, he never tells Benji about his feelings and instead has sex with every living breathing thing who is not Benji.
Ten years have passed and they are still just ‘besties’. Until, suddenly, Darren randomly decides to make a move, and they.. get together. The end.
The premise of this book in which Darren comes up with the idea to tell each other secrets to get to know each other on a whole new level (and hoping it would make Benji see him in a different way) seemed kind of cute, but was executed horribly. All of their ‘secrets’ ended up being sexually oriented and it was the least meaningful thing I’ve ever read. My idea of “opening up” does not consist of talking about dildos or revealing how often you jerk off. If this is the most in-depth you can get with your bestie of 10 years, then that is honestly just embarrassing. The whole endeavour was also over in like ten seconds flat, because they kissed really soon into the book, and then it just became boring as all hell.
The writing and characterization was incredibly superficial and very repetitive.
The whole thing was dry and almost analytical: there was absolutely no feeling to it, and I had no connection whatsoever to either main character.
The chemistry between these two was honestly just plain bad, and the tension was completely non-existent.
The plot was nothing more than boring, messy and weird.
I also felt like the book was constantly telling itself how ‘different’ it was from other books, which did nothing for me other than make me roll my eyes and cringe a whole lot.
I started skimming a bit after I was about halfway through this book, but I might as well have stopped reading it altogether, since none of it was worth it.
If it wasn’t obvious already: I didn’t enjoy this at all. I don’t think it had anything interesting going on.
**I received an ARC from Foreword PR & Marketing in exchange for an honest review**