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A review by bookreadingjill
Broken At Love: Whitman University by Lyla Payne
2.0
A 2 star read for me.
Really did not like the male protagonist/love interest.
It is rare for me to not root for the couple to be together by the end of the novel but I really didn't for this one. Quinn just seemed too unapologetic and insincere and was mostly just an ass for a strong majority of the novel. He didn't deserve all the chances he got, especially when almost no effort was made on his part to make the relationship work. None. At all.
He said crazy mean things to Emilie multiple times throughout the novel and never once apologized for them, never once apologized for the whole bet and never once apologized for treating her like shit.
Also, they only spent collectively like two weeks together - which may be enough for some people, but I really wasn't sold on the 'love' between them and it being enough to completely 180 Quinn's life.
Another thing that bothered me was the language used in the novel. It is told from both Quinn and Emilie's point of view. Both are college-aged young adults. I believe around 20 years old. But a lot of the language used sounded so incredibly poetic that it completely removed me from the story. Multiple times I had to stop and wonder if this was really supposed to come from a 20-something college frat boy. Don't get me wrong, those sentences were well written and sounded nice together, but they didn't fit the atmosphere or characters in the book, at all. It took me out of the story.
It wasn't a bad story, I just didn't enjoy the character relationships or the main love interest.
Really did not like the male protagonist/love interest.
It is rare for me to not root for the couple to be together by the end of the novel but I really didn't for this one. Quinn just seemed too unapologetic and insincere and was mostly just an ass for a strong majority of the novel. He didn't deserve all the chances he got, especially when almost no effort was made on his part to make the relationship work. None. At all.
He said crazy mean things to Emilie multiple times throughout the novel and never once apologized for them, never once apologized for the whole bet and never once apologized for treating her like shit.
Also, they only spent collectively like two weeks together - which may be enough for some people, but I really wasn't sold on the 'love' between them and it being enough to completely 180 Quinn's life.
Another thing that bothered me was the language used in the novel. It is told from both Quinn and Emilie's point of view. Both are college-aged young adults. I believe around 20 years old. But a lot of the language used sounded so incredibly poetic that it completely removed me from the story. Multiple times I had to stop and wonder if this was really supposed to come from a 20-something college frat boy. Don't get me wrong, those sentences were well written and sounded nice together, but they didn't fit the atmosphere or characters in the book, at all. It took me out of the story.
It wasn't a bad story, I just didn't enjoy the character relationships or the main love interest.