slrtwps 's review for:

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

DID NOT FINISH: 64%

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This is one of those books where I would enjoy myself each time I was reading it but every time I put it down, I had no desire to pick it back up again. 

I started losing interest around 60-ish% but page 250 lost me completely. 

"But all I hear is I just want to be near you, Libby Strout. I want to kiss your lips right off your face.
[...]
But what I hear is I will always be protective of you. I will always look after you and our daughter, the one we’re going to have together after we get married and I am loving you forever.
I’m in the same car, only fifteen years in the future—somewhere far away from Amos. Jack Masselin is next to me like he is now, only our kids are in the backseat, or maybe just one kid—the daughter—my hand on his leg. I stare at his leg and then at his hands on the wheel. I bet you’ll be a wonderful father."

I realised I wasn’t invested in the potential of this couple enough for that kind of melodrama or instalove, and I no longer had any interest in the rest of their stories.

I skimmed a little further forward but was just met with more of a character refusing to communicate with anyone for no real reason about the problems he was facing, and I can’t stand that either, so that was it for me.

Review Date: December 14, 2019