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befsk 's review for:
Pretend You're Mine
by Lucy Score
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Harper finds her boyfriend cheating on her, gets in her car and drives in the direction that she thinks her college roommate lives (in the hopes of couch crashing), except it turns out she headed in the wrong direction. She left without her phone or money, and her car runs out of gas, so she pulls into a bar's car park and immediately starts a fight with a man who is strangling his girlfriend. Waking up after being knocked unconscious by the douchebag, she finds herself in the cozy small town of Benevolence and is immediately beloved of all the residents due to the fight - and in particular beloved by Luke who is instantly attracted to her and feels protective of her and so he offers her his bed for the night. From there, they decide to fake date so that Harper has somewhere to crash until she sorts her life out and Luke's family get off his back about his lack of dating life prior to him shipping out on a military rotation in a month’s time.
I was honestly instantly absorbed in this trainwreck of a FMC, I loved her and her chaos. Much less enamoured of the MMC, who was a stoic and repressed white knight type with a huge stick up his ass. I guess that's military weirdos for you.
The main relationship moved really fast. She moved into his house immediately, when she hadn’t even known him for a day, and they started having sex about 20% into the book, there was absolutely no slow burn here.
Was it melodramatic? Oh absolutely yes. Were the sex scenes weirdly repetitive and cringey? Yes. Did I enjoy the book anyway? Also yes. This was pure escapism. An insta-found family where everyone gets along and the only drama to be had is in relationship miscommunications and the occasional encounter with cartoonish villains that hit women. Everyone in town bands together on a regular basis for community events and to help people having a bad time because everyone is close knit and they’re all in each other's business because they care about everyone else in town. None of this was realistic. Making friends and being accepted is definitely not this easy as an adult in real life.
The mistakes in it were so bizarre, spelling and grammar errors littered around the place that baffled me. Very surprising because I've read books by this author before and they didn't have any overt mistakes like this.
I was honestly instantly absorbed in this trainwreck of a FMC, I loved her and her chaos. Much less enamoured of the MMC, who was a stoic and repressed white knight type with a huge stick up his ass. I guess that's military weirdos for you.
The main relationship moved really fast. She moved into his house immediately, when she hadn’t even known him for a day, and they started having sex about 20% into the book, there was absolutely no slow burn here.
Was it melodramatic? Oh absolutely yes. Were the sex scenes weirdly repetitive and cringey? Yes. Did I enjoy the book anyway? Also yes. This was pure escapism. An insta-found family where everyone gets along and the only drama to be had is in relationship miscommunications and the occasional encounter with cartoonish villains that hit women. Everyone in town bands together on a regular basis for community events and to help people having a bad time because everyone is close knit and they’re all in each other's business because they care about everyone else in town. None of this was realistic. Making friends and being accepted is definitely not this easy as an adult in real life.
The mistakes in it were so bizarre, spelling and grammar errors littered around the place that baffled me. Very surprising because I've read books by this author before and they didn't have any overt mistakes like this.