A review by martina_22
Cali Boy by Charli Meadows

2.0

i had very mixed reactions reading this book.
it starts with basically insta-love and insta-possessive (without a reason really) and generally over the top.
if you know me you know that i eat that shit up like i’m paid for it so i was honestly loving this.
but i’m a firm believer that if you want to go in that direction you have to really go for it, you can’t just start big, having your character suddenly decide that the other is his and then retreat.
it became kind of dull after a while.
and i started to loose interest.
i want possession, i want toxicity, i want over the top, this was ott-bait.

then came the misogyny. and i quote “a feminine type of friendship” a feminine what??????
then the one-dimensional characters: bad is very bad good is very good.
then it was almost childish.
then it was really predictable and everybody was dumb as fuck (and it’s concerning if me, the queen of the dumbs, says so).
so yeah, we went down hill.
the writing is quite good and i’m sure that this author can do so much better if she really goes for it.
2.5 because i loved this so much at the beginning.