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A review by rosegold_bibliophile
The Proposal by Adriana Locke
slow-paced
2.0
Story: 2 ⭐️
Steam: 3.5 🔥 light/med smut
Audio: 5 🎧
I really wanted to love this book. The tropes sounded like a perfect combo and I was stoked to read it! This was my first read from this author so I was excited to finally read her work. Unfortunately, the book overall just didn’t work for me. I don’t know if it was the writing or the story or a combination of both but I was just not loving it.
The main plot was a marriage of convenience between a rugby player and his best friends little sister. So, I expected some rugby and a tension packed, secret feelings, longing glances, stolen moments fling between the main characters. The rugby was in off season so we didn’t get much if any rugby which was a bummer. And from page one our leads were already very blatantly into each other and everyone knew it. There wasn’t much for pining or secret longing because their banter was immediately sexual, right in front of her brother. The marriage of convenience was an after thought to drunkenly getting married in Vegas. It was all just pretty flat to me and didn’t keep me interested. There were also a LOT of side characters that made me feel like maybe I was missing some backstory. I don’t know if they’re from other books from this author but having not read her work before it just felt a bit overwhelming.
As for the writing style, I don’t know if this is just how the author writes or if it was just this book but she does this thing where she writes mini flashbacks of dialogue that just happened not that long ago. Which would be fine if it was once or twice but it seems to happen every chapter and it got a little annoying. Feels like the author was just trying to meet a word count requirement. I didn’t feel like it added to the story and was just distracting.
Overall, I don’t think this book was a good fit for me. Seems like a lot of people like it though, so if you’re into instalust and have enjoyed this author, I think it would be a good match! I’d be willing to give this author another try but for me, this one is a no.
Steam: 3.5 🔥 light/med smut
Audio: 5 🎧
I really wanted to love this book. The tropes sounded like a perfect combo and I was stoked to read it! This was my first read from this author so I was excited to finally read her work. Unfortunately, the book overall just didn’t work for me. I don’t know if it was the writing or the story or a combination of both but I was just not loving it.
The main plot was a marriage of convenience between a rugby player and his best friends little sister. So, I expected some rugby and a tension packed, secret feelings, longing glances, stolen moments fling between the main characters. The rugby was in off season so we didn’t get much if any rugby which was a bummer. And from page one our leads were already very blatantly into each other and everyone knew it. There wasn’t much for pining or secret longing because their banter was immediately sexual, right in front of her brother. The marriage of convenience was an after thought to drunkenly getting married in Vegas. It was all just pretty flat to me and didn’t keep me interested. There were also a LOT of side characters that made me feel like maybe I was missing some backstory. I don’t know if they’re from other books from this author but having not read her work before it just felt a bit overwhelming.
As for the writing style, I don’t know if this is just how the author writes or if it was just this book but she does this thing where she writes mini flashbacks of dialogue that just happened not that long ago. Which would be fine if it was once or twice but it seems to happen every chapter and it got a little annoying. Feels like the author was just trying to meet a word count requirement. I didn’t feel like it added to the story and was just distracting.
Overall, I don’t think this book was a good fit for me. Seems like a lot of people like it though, so if you’re into instalust and have enjoyed this author, I think it would be a good match! I’d be willing to give this author another try but for me, this one is a no.