manikahemmerixh 's review for:

A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime by Monica Murphy

2.75

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Maybe if this book had gone viral when I was still a teenager I would have enjoyed it more, but reading it as a young adult just had me questioning 90% of the book.

This feels as if it was written by a man who was trying to appeal to a female audience. I didn’t really like Wren all that much for the majority of the book, and the innocent little virgin thing was taken waaayy too far. I was a late bloomer so I know it happens, but this felt like something else entirely. Then there’s Crew, who I did find mostly charming and by the end he was very sweet to Wren, but it was a stark contrast to the way that he thought about her in the beginning, and I don’t feel like that character development was flushed out or properly explored. 

I found myself laughing while reading this and not because it was comedy, because I found what I was reading at times to be absurd. 

Also throw the whole “Mr. Fig” character in the trash. Literally, erase that plot point, it wasn’t that entertaining and I think the story would’ve been better without it.

I could go on and on about the parts of this book that I questioned, but I did rate it with 2 stars and this is what made it tolerable for me: the painting, the way Crew cares for Wren, Wren becoming slowly more tolerable, and a sheer curiosity to see what else this book might throw at me.