heliea 's review for:

Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston

2.0

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My teenage self would have probably liked this a lot more than my adult self did - then again I'm not the target audience for this book and it shows. I still enjoyed the beginning and the premise, although I haven't read the previous two books because Geekerella seemed a bit cringey as I'm not a fan of startruck/fandom tropes and that part of the book I didn't enjoy at all. The whole Star Wars reimagined thing felt trite and childish and as the book developed and then the extremely predictable and overdone ending hit I realised this wasn't doing it for me. Maybe half of the blame should go towards the audiobook format, since the voice actors weren't my cup of tea - exchanging the British and American accents successfully was not in the cards and as always it would have benefitted from having the male and female actors reading their own lines in the other's POV chapters.
A Beauty and the Beast retelling to forget.