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A review by lonaargh
Crazy Cupid Love by Amanda Heger
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
2.0
Crazy Cupid Love by Amanda Heger was recommended to me by the amazing algorithm over at Storygraph.
It's about Eliza, who is a very powerful Cupid, she can enchant people by hurting them (a little bit, who needs arrows these days?) and make the love people feel for each other a lot stronger. She's also a huge klutz and tends to accidentally physically hurt people. You can imagine the chaos that ensues. When her father falls ill it's up to her to help the family business. To top it off, her childhood best friend has grown up hot and they reconnect.
The premise is fun and promising. The execution, however, has left me wanting.
With a Cupid story it's hard to steer clear of all clichés, I get that. And not all clichés are necessarily bad. But Crazy Cupid Love has managed to crash head first into most of them.
Hot childhood friend? Check.
Longing for each while thinking the other doesn't? Check.
Love overcoming a seemingly impossible to break enchantment? Check.
And the clichés are not just present, but repeated over and over and over again until it got at my nerves.
There are a lot of interesting characters, but they don't seem to go anywhere, much like the sideplot about Eliza's parents. This is a shame because it may have given the book some much needed depth.
The jokes were funny, but not all of them to my tastes and more often than not they didn't fit with the scene they were placed in. The sense of timing was off within the entire book. There is a time and place for everything (yes, even in books) and playing videogames with an android's penis as joystick is not something I expected at that point. Nor did the sex scenes feel like they belong, it was more like they were awkwardly wedged in there, be that for the benefit of the horny audience or steamy comedic relief.
All in all, this wasn't a book I enjoyed, though I can see how other people would.
2 out of 5 stars.
It's about Eliza, who is a very powerful Cupid, she can enchant people by hurting them (a little bit, who needs arrows these days?) and make the love people feel for each other a lot stronger. She's also a huge klutz and tends to accidentally physically hurt people. You can imagine the chaos that ensues. When her father falls ill it's up to her to help the family business. To top it off, her childhood best friend has grown up hot and they reconnect.
The premise is fun and promising. The execution, however, has left me wanting.
With a Cupid story it's hard to steer clear of all clichés, I get that. And not all clichés are necessarily bad. But Crazy Cupid Love has managed to crash head first into most of them.
Hot childhood friend? Check.
Longing for each while thinking the other doesn't? Check.
Love overcoming a seemingly impossible to break enchantment? Check.
And the clichés are not just present, but repeated over and over and over again until it got at my nerves.
There are a lot of interesting characters, but they don't seem to go anywhere, much like the sideplot about Eliza's parents. This is a shame because it may have given the book some much needed depth.
The jokes were funny, but not all of them to my tastes and more often than not they didn't fit with the scene they were placed in. The sense of timing was off within the entire book. There is a time and place for everything (yes, even in books) and playing videogames with an android's penis as joystick is not something I expected at that point. Nor did the sex scenes feel like they belong, it was more like they were awkwardly wedged in there, be that for the benefit of the horny audience or steamy comedic relief.
All in all, this wasn't a book I enjoyed, though I can see how other people would.
2 out of 5 stars.