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cakelynn6 's review for:
Mr. Masters
by T.L. Swan
Ok this is going to have spoilers because I don’t know how to rant (and this will be mostly a rant) without mentioning some specifics.
I wanted to like this. There were a lot of parts I did. But I gotta say I could’ve done without Julian entirely. Seriously, he is a giant, two-faced pile of trash. I have no sympathy for him, he is a cold and emotionless coward. And sex addict which I guess would generally work for a book like this but wow, hated him with my whole being. He is deeply troubled and no it is not sexy, it’s just a downer. I also couldn’t follow his train of thought - one minute he is telling Bree to prioritize the kids, and then right after he is upset with her for putting them before him. It was a whole lot of this - this then that then back to this then back to that - it made my head hurt.
Brielle - I liked her…ish. She flip flopped so much in her interactions with Julian that I felt the whiplash, but I absolutely adored her relationship with the kids. I would like a book of just that. I’m not kidding, just yeet Julian into the sun please, and let’s see what life is like for her, Willow, and Sammy. But Brielle with Julian…in the words of Pete Holmes: “BARFCITY.ORG, I’m logging on!”
Willow - I LOVED HER. I went through the gamut of emotions, what a great character and I felt so much for her and all of the struggles she went through as a teen trying to find herself while also essentially grieving the loss of both her parents, since dad Julian is WORTHLESS (I feel like I can’t stress my dislike of him enough).
The writing was not the best, so much repetition - “the air buzzed with electricity”, “open flesh” (talking about a vagina, made me nauseous) - it got very distracting.
There were some things thrown in that were absolutely unnecessary. Did you know Brielle was an engineer? Did you know that it has absolutely nothing to do with this story at all and is mentioned twice and never elaborated? Do you know what the point of that was? I certainly don’t. Oh wait, it’s to try and distract us from the fact that Brielle is naive as all hell.
I was going to give this another star solely because of the storyline focused on Brielle and the kids, and then the last 15% of the book happened and it was utter trash. Julian almost sleeps with someone else like immediately after they break up, then we blink and he is proposing to Brielle and saying he didn’t sleep with anyone while they were apart (ok but I’m still calling you a shady POS and he never comes clean about that) and then they get married and there’s several jumps forward in an epilogue to show them married and growing their family. I had to scan back to make sure I didn’t miss anything because it was so sudden and rushed. I don’t think this ending was at all planned out, it felt like it was just thrown together to finally end this and put me out of my misery. So my final rating is two stars - mostly for Willow because I just want that girl to have the world, she deserves it. Julian alone? Negative thirty stars. Negative eighty stars.
I wanted to like this. There were a lot of parts I did. But I gotta say I could’ve done without Julian entirely. Seriously, he is a giant, two-faced pile of trash. I have no sympathy for him, he is a cold and emotionless coward. And sex addict which I guess would generally work for a book like this but wow, hated him with my whole being. He is deeply troubled and no it is not sexy, it’s just a downer. I also couldn’t follow his train of thought - one minute he is telling Bree to prioritize the kids, and then right after he is upset with her for putting them before him. It was a whole lot of this - this then that then back to this then back to that - it made my head hurt.
Brielle - I liked her…ish. She flip flopped so much in her interactions with Julian that I felt the whiplash, but I absolutely adored her relationship with the kids. I would like a book of just that. I’m not kidding, just yeet Julian into the sun please, and let’s see what life is like for her, Willow, and Sammy. But Brielle with Julian…in the words of Pete Holmes: “BARFCITY.ORG, I’m logging on!”
Willow - I LOVED HER. I went through the gamut of emotions, what a great character and I felt so much for her and all of the struggles she went through as a teen trying to find herself while also essentially grieving the loss of both her parents, since dad Julian is WORTHLESS (I feel like I can’t stress my dislike of him enough).
The writing was not the best, so much repetition - “the air buzzed with electricity”, “open flesh” (talking about a vagina, made me nauseous) - it got very distracting.
There were some things thrown in that were absolutely unnecessary. Did you know Brielle was an engineer? Did you know that it has absolutely nothing to do with this story at all and is mentioned twice and never elaborated? Do you know what the point of that was? I certainly don’t. Oh wait, it’s to try and distract us from the fact that Brielle is naive as all hell.
I was going to give this another star solely because of the storyline focused on Brielle and the kids, and then the last 15% of the book happened and it was utter trash. Julian almost sleeps with someone else like immediately after they break up, then we blink and he is proposing to Brielle and saying he didn’t sleep with anyone while they were apart (ok but I’m still calling you a shady POS and he never comes clean about that) and then they get married and there’s several jumps forward in an epilogue to show them married and growing their family. I had to scan back to make sure I didn’t miss anything because it was so sudden and rushed. I don’t think this ending was at all planned out, it felt like it was just thrown together to finally end this and put me out of my misery. So my final rating is two stars - mostly for Willow because I just want that girl to have the world, she deserves it. Julian alone? Negative thirty stars. Negative eighty stars.