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half_lucid 's review for:
Twice in a Blue Moon
by Christina Lauren
I rather liked the beginning half, two kids falling in love. The stars were earned for that. And the idea that Sam sold her out for his grandfathers health is actually about the only way to make it palatable. Basically the bad guy becomes the horrible US health care system. But the idea that two people who fall in love at 18 and 21 respectively don’t change and are still somehow still in love 14 years later is laughable. Either they didn’t evolve in 14 years or 20 minutes into this relationship they will realize they are both idealizing the kid versions of the other. Life changes you. Marriage and relationships are hard because you have to keep reconnecting as you change. “Persuasion” is such an impressive novel not because of the the trope of reunited love , but because it actually reunited them and had them fall in love in the here and now. Obviously, Austen is Austen, but if you are going to do this trope you have the make me believe it.
Plus the second half is disjointed with random characters moving in and out. It felt like either the second section needed fleshed out more, and the first thinned significantly. Overall okay, but given I’ve felt that way about all their books (despite fun premises), I may quit with this author. Fine books just not for me!
Plus the second half is disjointed with random characters moving in and out. It felt like either the second section needed fleshed out more, and the first thinned significantly. Overall okay, but given I’ve felt that way about all their books (despite fun premises), I may quit with this author. Fine books just not for me!