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amandaleigh96 's review for:
Wilde Fire
by Lucy Lennox
I usually wouldn’t rate or write a review for a book that I DNF, but I feel like I’ve spent quite a significant amount of time trying to read this series, so I’m counting it all together as reading one of them. This series apparently really isn’t for me, since lots of people love it, but I can’t seem to actually care about the characters enough to read the whole thing.
In the first book, I couldn’t get past about 37%. Nico was judged SO MUCH right from the start on his appearance. It was annoying. I get that they were mad that he disappeared from his family and town, but he was literally being bullied the last time we saw him, and clearly the town wasn’t that accepting before. With the second book, I couldn’t really get past the first chapter. I just didn’t really care. And with this one, I got to about 34% and I didn’t want to continue because they were already together and in love again and there was still so much of the book to read? I didn’t like the instant forgiving/sex scene after TEN WHOLE YEARS of silence and without discussing any of the conflict between them. I really did like the beginning with them as teenagers, but idk I wasn’t feeling it between them as adults with all the other circumstances added in.
I also don’t understand how, in a town literally FULL of gay people of alllll ages, not only is there a significant amount of homophobia in the first book, but also things like this about a female deputy:
"I knew she still caught hell working as a sheriff’s deputy in small-town Texas with the unforgivable trait of being a female."
So I’m supposed to believe that in “small-town Texas” people are perfectly fine with their doctor being gay, their sheriff being gay, the bakery owner being gay, the fire chief being bi, their old doctor being gay, and nearly every other Wilde being gay, along with TONS of random characters being super out and proud, but they have a problem with a woman being a deputy???? Obviously it would be amazing for a town to be that accepting of everyone’s sexuality (and I’m sure that there are places like that) BUT WHY WOULD THEY ALSO HAVE AN “UNFORGIVABLE” PROBLEM WITH A FEMALE DEPUTY??? That one line bothered me so much. It just doesn’t make sense in a book like this where so many other things seem to be incredibly accepted.
Anyways I respect everyone who loves these books because they do have cute moments, they just really weren’t for me. I tried.
In the first book, I couldn’t get past about 37%. Nico was judged SO MUCH right from the start on his appearance. It was annoying. I get that they were mad that he disappeared from his family and town, but he was literally being bullied the last time we saw him, and clearly the town wasn’t that accepting before. With the second book, I couldn’t really get past the first chapter. I just didn’t really care. And with this one, I got to about 34% and I didn’t want to continue because they were already together and in love again and there was still so much of the book to read? I didn’t like the instant forgiving/sex scene after TEN WHOLE YEARS of silence and without discussing any of the conflict between them. I really did like the beginning with them as teenagers, but idk I wasn’t feeling it between them as adults with all the other circumstances added in.
I also don’t understand how, in a town literally FULL of gay people of alllll ages, not only is there a significant amount of homophobia in the first book, but also things like this about a female deputy:
"I knew she still caught hell working as a sheriff’s deputy in small-town Texas with the unforgivable trait of being a female."
So I’m supposed to believe that in “small-town Texas” people are perfectly fine with their doctor being gay, their sheriff being gay, the bakery owner being gay, the fire chief being bi, their old doctor being gay, and nearly every other Wilde being gay, along with TONS of random characters being super out and proud, but they have a problem with a woman being a deputy???? Obviously it would be amazing for a town to be that accepting of everyone’s sexuality (and I’m sure that there are places like that) BUT WHY WOULD THEY ALSO HAVE AN “UNFORGIVABLE” PROBLEM WITH A FEMALE DEPUTY??? That one line bothered me so much. It just doesn’t make sense in a book like this where so many other things seem to be incredibly accepted.
Anyways I respect everyone who loves these books because they do have cute moments, they just really weren’t for me. I tried.