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A review by talknerdybookblog
I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
2.75
No strong representation of diverse characters or minority identities.
I didn’t believe the Hero wanted to be with the Heroine for the first 50% of the book. Basically, after the funeral the book is great but before, I found it so frustrating because of the Hero. He came across as incredibly shallow and self-centred.
Safety Rating: Safe with Exceptions
• No cheating
— Note: Heroine was a ~30-year-old virgin when she slept with the Hero for the first time a year before this book starts.
• No OW/OM drama
— But, the opening scene is the Hero trying to have a threesome with Puck “Bunnies” (groupies)... alas his dick hasn’t “worked” since he slept with the Heroine a year ago. The Heroine never finds out and no one tells her — it’s a nonissue. But the opening chapter IS told from the Hero’s POV so it could bug you has a reader.
— Heroine goes on dates using online dating apps as a way to screen potential matches for her clients. She continues to do this once she’s officially dating the Hero. He finds out but is not pissed about it.
• Does have the Hero and Heroine pushing each other away
• No separation
Possible Triggers: Yes
• Sexism
• Body shaming — Heroine’s mother makes constant passive-aggressive remarks about her body
— Addresses fatphobia
• Heroine was abandoned by her father as a child
• Heroine auctioned off her virginity in med school to pay for her student loans. She couldn’t go through with it — even more so when the man who paid her turned out to be a married professor of hers.
Ending:HEA</spoiler
I didn’t believe the Hero wanted to be with the Heroine for the first 50% of the book. Basically, after the funeral the book is great but before, I found it so frustrating because of the Hero. He came across as incredibly shallow and self-centred.
Safety Rating: Safe with Exceptions
• No cheating
— Note: Heroine was a ~30-year-old virgin when she slept with the Hero for the first time a year before this book starts.
• No OW/OM drama
— But, the opening scene is the Hero trying to have a threesome with Puck “Bunnies” (groupies)... alas his dick hasn’t “worked” since he slept with the Heroine a year ago. The Heroine never finds out and no one tells her — it’s a nonissue. But the opening chapter IS told from the Hero’s POV so it could bug you has a reader.
— Heroine goes on dates using online dating apps as a way to screen potential matches for her clients. She continues to do this once she’s officially dating the Hero. He finds out but is not pissed about it.
• Does have the Hero and Heroine pushing each other away
• No separation
Possible Triggers: Yes
• Sexism
• Body shaming — Heroine’s mother makes constant passive-aggressive remarks about her body
— Addresses fatphobia
• Heroine was abandoned by her father as a child
• Heroine auctioned off her virginity in med school to pay for her student loans. She couldn’t go through with it — even more so when the man who paid her turned out to be a married professor of hers.
Ending: