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Mad About Ewe
by Susannah Nix
I loved Susannah Nix's "Chemistry Lessons" series so I was super excited to see her adding to the Pennyverse! Funny enough, that series felt a bit too young for my personal reading preference and MAD ABOUT EWE feels just a bit too "old". I know, I am a horrid ageist when it comes to romance reading! #selfloathing
There were a lot of really great parts of this book! I loved that our female lead is divorced and the male lead is TWICE divorced (a rarity in romance reading for sure). There is such a stigma about being divorced more than once and Nix tackles it with compassion and realism.
There are wonderfully swoony moments, crazy-hot steamy scenes, and peeks at characters from Penny Reid's "Knitting In The City" series that were well placed and really fun to read! And all of the knitting info and teaching was fun for me, as a knitter, to read as part of the story!
There were a few things I wasn't so keen on in this book. The leads in this book are both 47/48 years old and the dialog and storylines around their ages felt very over-emphasized. There were non-stop refences to Silver Fox, salt-and-pepper beard, salt-and pepper-body hair, women "her age" have to pee much more frequently, etc. It sometimes felt like the ONLY part of this love story was their age. As a 43 year old reader I certainly hope that I am not skirting the edge of geriatrics in 5 years as this book suggests.
I also had more than a few eye-roll moments at the characters' preoccupation with High School (where they first met). I mean...people in their 40s who are still not over the ridiculous social structure of High School are puzzling to me. If you still care and are hurt about not being at the "cool kids table" 30 years later then you need to sort it out soon. I would hope that people this age would have easily recognized that those "cool kids" were exactly the same as you. NO ONE feels accepted, "normal", or socially safe in High School. NO. ONE. And by your 40s, when you have lived life and experienced true bring-you-to-your-knees tragedies (which I am convinced everyone has experienced by their 40s) you give zero effs about what happened in High School or who was classified a jock or a nerd.
So, these characters seemed equal parts overly old and also extremely immature to me throughout this book. It was still a good read, but not a GREAT read for me.
RATING:⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
STEAM LEVEL: Rated R
TRIGGERS: Cheating ex, cancer, divorce, hysterectomy, plastic surgery shaming (by MCs)
FEELS-O-METER: 3/5 *Tackled some tough topics*
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
There were a lot of really great parts of this book! I loved that our female lead is divorced and the male lead is TWICE divorced (a rarity in romance reading for sure). There is such a stigma about being divorced more than once and Nix tackles it with compassion and realism.
There are wonderfully swoony moments, crazy-hot steamy scenes, and peeks at characters from Penny Reid's "Knitting In The City" series that were well placed and really fun to read! And all of the knitting info and teaching was fun for me, as a knitter, to read as part of the story!
There were a few things I wasn't so keen on in this book. The leads in this book are both 47/48 years old and the dialog and storylines around their ages felt very over-emphasized. There were non-stop refences to Silver Fox, salt-and-pepper beard, salt-and pepper-body hair, women "her age" have to pee much more frequently, etc. It sometimes felt like the ONLY part of this love story was their age. As a 43 year old reader I certainly hope that I am not skirting the edge of geriatrics in 5 years as this book suggests.
I also had more than a few eye-roll moments at the characters' preoccupation with High School (where they first met). I mean...people in their 40s who are still not over the ridiculous social structure of High School are puzzling to me. If you still care and are hurt about not being at the "cool kids table" 30 years later then you need to sort it out soon. I would hope that people this age would have easily recognized that those "cool kids" were exactly the same as you. NO ONE feels accepted, "normal", or socially safe in High School. NO. ONE. And by your 40s, when you have lived life and experienced true bring-you-to-your-knees tragedies (which I am convinced everyone has experienced by their 40s) you give zero effs about what happened in High School or who was classified a jock or a nerd.
So, these characters seemed equal parts overly old and also extremely immature to me throughout this book. It was still a good read, but not a GREAT read for me.
RATING:⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
STEAM LEVEL: Rated R
TRIGGERS: Cheating ex, cancer, divorce, hysterectomy, plastic surgery shaming (by MCs)
FEELS-O-METER: 3/5 *Tackled some tough topics*
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.