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A review by innodavid
All Grown Up by Vi Keeland
2.0
2.5 STARS
An age-gap romance between an older woman who's just recently divorced and a younger man who's also happens to be the woman's son's playmate when they were younger. This book didn't really do anything wrong as far as I remember, but it also didn't bring what I thought I would get.
I was expecting some taboo, especially since the female lead is staying at a beach house while being neighbors with the male lead's younger sister whom she knew ever since the sister was a child. It also turns out that the male lead was also staying there for a vacation which made both our leads' interaction possible. But they have to keep it a secret because the younger sister doesn't know that the male lead is secretly pursuing our main character despite their pasts.
All of this was set up to be a very forbidden and angsty romance, but it all just ended up being pretty dull. The main character doesn't act her age at all and the male lead just treated her like how any guy treats a girl his age that he liked, so the juicy forbiddeness wasn't even there. And the way people reacted to their relationship was very tame and anticlimactic. The conflict towards the end was also stupid, considering what all they've been through and that's what them break up?
It's still an overall solid romance, but you could've removed the age-gap aspect, and the story would remain the same.
An age-gap romance between an older woman who's just recently divorced and a younger man who's also happens to be the woman's son's playmate when they were younger. This book didn't really do anything wrong as far as I remember, but it also didn't bring what I thought I would get.
I was expecting some taboo, especially since the female lead is staying at a beach house while being neighbors with the male lead's younger sister whom she knew ever since the sister was a child. It also turns out that the male lead was also staying there for a vacation which made both our leads' interaction possible. But they have to keep it a secret because the younger sister doesn't know that the male lead is secretly pursuing our main character despite their pasts.
All of this was set up to be a very forbidden and angsty romance, but it all just ended up being pretty dull. The main character doesn't act her age at all and the male lead just treated her like how any guy treats a girl his age that he liked, so the juicy forbiddeness wasn't even there. And the way people reacted to their relationship was very tame and anticlimactic. The conflict towards the end was also stupid, considering what all they've been through and that's what them break up?
It's still an overall solid romance, but you could've removed the age-gap aspect, and the story would remain the same.