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A review by reemreadsx
Ride by Harper Dallas
1.0
Dnf at 37%
The one star is for the great writing style, the author is extremely talented, the writing flowed, the set up was good & I could picture the scenes unfolding in my head.
Everything else including the characters and the entire storyline was terrible. We love grumpy mean ml’s, but Chase was just horrible and manipulative. And there’s never any consequences to his actions. Tbf I don’t really like it when the female lead is toooo combattive, like not every convo has to be an argument, but this fl was just spineless. She did not make a SINGLE snippy comment back to him. I was at least waiting for her to give him an eye roll or at least a subtle passive aggressive retort. But nothing. She treated him like he paid her rent and she can’t say anything because she’d become homeless. He would literally insult her and shout at her, and her response would be to just quitely thank him for giving her a t-shirt to wear or something stupid like that. Like I was fully shocked at her just silently obsessive, creepy and spineless character.
Also I agree with everyone else that the book is very mundane and depressing, you feel v isolated as you read it bc most of the book is repetitive with descriptions of snow and mountains, barely any dialogue and literally no happy moments. Of course when you set a book in the mountains or whatever, it feels very isolated, but like I said, the constant reminder that the characters were stuck in this resort "on holiday" was just not fun. So not great if you’re already mentally ill and clinically depressed
The one star is for the great writing style, the author is extremely talented, the writing flowed, the set up was good & I could picture the scenes unfolding in my head.
Everything else including the characters and the entire storyline was terrible. We love grumpy mean ml’s, but Chase was just horrible and manipulative. And there’s never any consequences to his actions. Tbf I don’t really like it when the female lead is toooo combattive, like not every convo has to be an argument, but this fl was just spineless. She did not make a SINGLE snippy comment back to him. I was at least waiting for her to give him an eye roll or at least a subtle passive aggressive retort. But nothing. She treated him like he paid her rent and she can’t say anything because she’d become homeless. He would literally insult her and shout at her, and her response would be to just quitely thank him for giving her a t-shirt to wear or something stupid like that. Like I was fully shocked at her just silently obsessive, creepy and spineless character.
Also I agree with everyone else that the book is very mundane and depressing, you feel v isolated as you read it bc most of the book is repetitive with descriptions of snow and mountains, barely any dialogue and literally no happy moments. Of course when you set a book in the mountains or whatever, it feels very isolated, but like I said, the constant reminder that the characters were stuck in this resort "on holiday" was just not fun. So not great if you’re already mentally ill and clinically depressed