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Good Elf Gone Wrong
by Alina Jacobs
It's a Christmas miracle that I was even able to finish this book, honestly. The heroine is an absolute nightmare of a doormat to a degree that is absolutely infuriating. The hero is an inappropriate weirdo dick in a way that wasn't the least bit sexy to me and doesn't feel redeemed at all in the end. And the "love story" is basically just instalove bolstered by the kind of abrupt, inappropriately timed dirty talk that would make my skin crawl in real life. Honestly, I don't think dirty talk in a book has ever made my skin crawl as much as this one. Don't even get me started on the cartoonishly horrible and cruel secondary characters. In the context of a romcom, the level of abusive that the heroine's family was to her was genuinely uncomfortable and not even a little bit funny and also never really explained for any kind of realism. Just awful.
I really liked the premise for this story, but the more I think about the execution, the more I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading it. Probably the worst book I actually finished this year. I was going to give it 2 stars because I finished it, but upon reflection I've decided that I hated this too much for more than 1 star.
I really liked the premise for this story, but the more I think about the execution, the more I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading it. Probably the worst book I actually finished this year. I was going to give it 2 stars because I finished it, but upon reflection I've decided that I hated this too much for more than 1 star.