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A review by doubtfire
Confess by A. Zavarelli
3.0
Not bad, but not as great as the reviews suggest
If you want a sad, Notebook-style contemporary romance, you'll like this.
If you're into gritty, dark romance, this ain't it. Also the smut is meh, and so is the BDSM (if we can call it that)
The whole thing is way more vanilla than I wanted, so I feel a bit mislead.
idk, maybe it's just me, but I never felt any of the chemistry? Nor did I understand how/why these two got together. It's like our H's character tried to be written as gritty (esp toward the end), but it felt inconsistent to me. For example, you've been alone for years, "never intend for sex to happen", but chose her over literally anyone else? For what reason besides attraction? Eh.
And we keep trying to do all these honorable things to make the H likable, while making the h a total f*cking brat. (not in a cute or BDSMy way, just annoying). (Like, since when are you too good to clean house? Uhm?) This, plus the huge 17-year age difference, makes this feel creepy to me.
Then this thing is LONG - unnecessarily so. Even though it's long, I don't think our h or her sister have been done any justice in the character development or telling of their past. It was a lot of, "We've been through lot, but we survived!" but we don't get any details of that til later, so it falls flat for me
oh, and this is SAD. I almost wish it ended on sad instead of the ending that actually happened
idk. This book isn't bad but it definitely wasn't great either. I guess its my mistake for not noticing this was contemporary. I really wouldn't call this dark or smutty (there is but meh) either
If you want a sad, Notebook-style contemporary romance, you'll like this.
If you're into gritty, dark romance, this ain't it. Also the smut is meh, and so is the BDSM (if we can call it that)
The whole thing is way more vanilla than I wanted, so I feel a bit mislead.
idk, maybe it's just me, but I never felt any of the chemistry? Nor did I understand how/why these two got together. It's like our H's character tried to be written as gritty (esp toward the end), but it felt inconsistent to me. For example, you've been alone for years, "never intend for sex to happen", but chose her over literally anyone else? For what reason besides attraction? Eh.
And we keep trying to do all these honorable things to make the H likable, while making the h a total f*cking brat. (not in a cute or BDSMy way, just annoying). (Like, since when are you too good to clean house? Uhm?) This, plus the huge 17-year age difference, makes this feel creepy to me.
Then this thing is LONG - unnecessarily so. Even though it's long, I don't think our h or her sister have been done any justice in the character development or telling of their past. It was a lot of, "We've been through lot, but we survived!" but we don't get any details of that til later, so it falls flat for me
oh, and this is SAD. I almost wish it ended on sad instead of the ending that actually happened
idk. This book isn't bad but it definitely wasn't great either. I guess its my mistake for not noticing this was contemporary. I really wouldn't call this dark or smutty (there is but meh) either