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Three Is the Luckiest Number
by Catherine Cloud
3.5 confused stars for this one...
I like the premise, I love the "lovers torn apart by the sports but can't keep away from each other", but this was so... strange?
We get 5 pages where they say goodbye and "break up" their non-relationship, and then for the rest of the first half of the book we just see both Blake and Elliot just... date other people for years? And that fricking hurt, man. I was lowkey invested and I wanted them together so badly, but Blake just got a friends with benefits for years and Elliot dated a girl for 3 years? And I was getting desperate to see them get back together around the 50% mark.
And when they did get together (-ish) it was cute and adorable but lowkey too easy, compared to all the pain the first half made me go through? I don't know anymore, I don't know what I think.
I really liked how the book took its time to show the guys having friendships and other relationships beyond romance, that was cute af. I wish Charlie didn't have a crush on Blake but if that means he is getting his own book, I'll get over it, he is adorable. Wished we saw more of Blake's brother too. The family drama made me sad for the brothers. But yeah, Mattie, Adam, Charlie... These were pretty nice to see, see Blake & Elliot have a life beyond each other. Time to go read Noah's book now, by the way.
Again, I'm not sure I even enjoyed this so much, the writing was kind of a mess. The narration felt soo faraway from the actual characters it was literally just TELLING the reader what was happening there was so much distance between the narrative voice and the characters. Which is probably why both character voices were so damn similar, it could have all been the same character. I was so shocked to learn that Elliot was supposed to be a... sunshine character? This NEVER came across during his chapters, he felt so similar to Blake.
They had their adorable moments though, and even if the story doesn't really give a definite conclusion on their relationship, I still enjoyed the second half of the books where they let themselves show how much they care about and trust each other.
I like the premise, I love the "lovers torn apart by the sports but can't keep away from each other", but this was so... strange?
We get 5 pages where they say goodbye and "break up" their non-relationship, and then for the rest of the first half of the book we just see both Blake and Elliot just... date other people for years? And that fricking hurt, man. I was lowkey invested and I wanted them together so badly, but Blake just got a friends with benefits for years and Elliot dated a girl for 3 years? And I was getting desperate to see them get back together around the 50% mark.
And when they did get together (-ish) it was cute and adorable but lowkey too easy, compared to all the pain the first half made me go through? I don't know anymore, I don't know what I think.
Three kisses, because three has always been his lucky number, and when he was seventeen there was nothing as lucky as kissing Blake Samuels.
I really liked how the book took its time to show the guys having friendships and other relationships beyond romance, that was cute af. I wish Charlie didn't have a crush on Blake but if that means he is getting his own book, I'll get over it, he is adorable. Wished we saw more of Blake's brother too. The family drama made me sad for the brothers. But yeah, Mattie, Adam, Charlie... These were pretty nice to see, see Blake & Elliot have a life beyond each other. Time to go read Noah's book now, by the way.
Again, I'm not sure I even enjoyed this so much, the writing was kind of a mess. The narration felt soo faraway from the actual characters it was literally just TELLING the reader what was happening there was so much distance between the narrative voice and the characters. Which is probably why both character voices were so damn similar, it could have all been the same character. I was so shocked to learn that Elliot was supposed to be a... sunshine character? This NEVER came across during his chapters, he felt so similar to Blake.
They had their adorable moments though, and even if the story doesn't really give a definite conclusion on their relationship, I still enjoyed the second half of the books where they let themselves show how much they care about and trust each other.