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Wild Like Us
by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
2/5 stars
This review will most likely contain spoilers so the next bit will be all marked as spoiler.
Going into this my expectations were extremely low, close to nothing, and yet I still found myself a bit disappointed.
I will address first how one of disappointed it made me to read one of the main couples of this series, Jane and Thatcher, getting married from a different POV, and to add to that we didn't even get to read a single thing about the ceremony when other couples got bonuses and books dedicated just to their wedding and how half the plot of Sinful Like Us revolved around the wedding location for this other couple's wedding. (Yes, I am talking about Marrow).
This is the eight book of a series were Akara, Sulli and Banks have been side characters up until now (Sulli and Akara more than Banks), so what we had seen so far of them was from the POVs of various characters so everyone was eager to find out more.
By adding a third character (Banks) that up until now had very little space even as side character in the series they penalised the organic develpment of the pair we had already seen from external eyes. (Sulli and Akara)
The banter, the dynamic and the relationship between Sulli and Akara up until this moment had mostly happened off page throughout the course of seven books so when at the beginning of the book Akara goes from she is like my little sister to maybe she isn't like my little sister, I actually like her in the span of three pages it feels rushed, but if it had been just the two of them it would have been fine because we would have been able to see them weed through this romantic side of their relationship during the course of the book, but since there is a new characters we don't actually know the authors had to put Akara on the sidelines and this resulted in him almost becoming a side character in his own story.
Banks as a charcater still needs a lot of work, he feels insipid and like most of us feared he is almost superfluous and in order to stand out Akara had to be sidelined.
There is a lot of work to do here because there is a lot of imbalance between the development of the relationships and what was already there and cemented was completely pushed aside to make room for someone who up until now had literally little to no interaction with Sulli.
There was a lot of off page stuff we needed to see from all of their sides, but we didn't get to so it feels incomplete and not organic. Hopefully in the coming books they will clear this out and give the proper balance to the three different relationships.
For the rest I can't stay I didn't enjoy myself while reading this book because these charcaters (all of them) are very special to me, this is my comfort alt!reality so to be back with them feels always good, but I think this time the bad outweighted the good.
“I wouldn’t be a Meadows if I didn’t unapologetically go at life at a hundred-and-fifty-miles per hour. No brakes."
This review will most likely contain spoilers so the next bit will be all marked as spoiler.
Spoiler
Okay, so this is probably the most controversial book of this year, there has been a lot of talk about this book, it sparked a lot of negative reactions when it was annouced, but I have tried to just keep my mind open to everything and give it a try.Going into this my expectations were extremely low, close to nothing, and yet I still found myself a bit disappointed.
I will address first how one of disappointed it made me to read one of the main couples of this series, Jane and Thatcher, getting married from a different POV, and to add to that we didn't even get to read a single thing about the ceremony when other couples got bonuses and books dedicated just to their wedding and how half the plot of Sinful Like Us revolved around the wedding location for this other couple's wedding. (Yes, I am talking about Marrow).
This is the eight book of a series were Akara, Sulli and Banks have been side characters up until now (Sulli and Akara more than Banks), so what we had seen so far of them was from the POVs of various characters so everyone was eager to find out more.
By adding a third character (Banks) that up until now had very little space even as side character in the series they penalised the organic develpment of the pair we had already seen from external eyes. (Sulli and Akara)
The banter, the dynamic and the relationship between Sulli and Akara up until this moment had mostly happened off page throughout the course of seven books so when at the beginning of the book Akara goes from she is like my little sister to maybe she isn't like my little sister, I actually like her in the span of three pages it feels rushed, but if it had been just the two of them it would have been fine because we would have been able to see them weed through this romantic side of their relationship during the course of the book, but since there is a new characters we don't actually know the authors had to put Akara on the sidelines and this resulted in him almost becoming a side character in his own story.
Banks as a charcater still needs a lot of work, he feels insipid and like most of us feared he is almost superfluous and in order to stand out Akara had to be sidelined.
There is a lot of work to do here because there is a lot of imbalance between the development of the relationships and what was already there and cemented was completely pushed aside to make room for someone who up until now had literally little to no interaction with Sulli.
There was a lot of off page stuff we needed to see from all of their sides, but we didn't get to so it feels incomplete and not organic. Hopefully in the coming books they will clear this out and give the proper balance to the three different relationships.
For the rest I can't stay I didn't enjoy myself while reading this book because these charcaters (all of them) are very special to me, this is my comfort alt!reality so to be back with them feels always good, but I think this time the bad outweighted the good.