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A review by anujab
All That Matters by Susan X. Meagher
3.0
2.5 stars rounded up to 3 because I want to respect the time and effort I put in to actually finish this unnecessarily long book.
I'm very lenient when it comes to rating books I've read but this one gave me a real headache. I fail to understand the fuss and the over hyped reviews or maybe, just maybe, I have outgrown lesflics.
I picked up this book because it has a gay doctor, a bisexual character and slow burn romance. The story is good and I wanted to like it, I tried so hard but it is stretched so much, it sucked all the fun out of it. I'm sorry to say but both Blair and Kylie bored me to death, Blair with her alternating spunk and crying spells, and Kylie with her borderline smothering behaviour and insecurities. Another annoying thing was how the surgeries were described in such a crass way. As a person belonging to medical field, the very same surgical branch so elaborately discussed in the book, I would suggest you don't include surgeries rather than including it only to make it so gross. Kylie could have well been an embryologist and their first meeting would have been the same. I sometimes felt that the surgeon part was added just to throw in the circumcision coversation and to add that extra bit of OT drama at the end. I just finished this book to honour my OCD of finishing what I started.
All I want to say is, I won't be recommending this book to anyone. If I could, I want to delete it from my brain.
I would prefer to read Chris and Laura's story any day than this extremely long tirade between Blair and Kylie.
I'm very lenient when it comes to rating books I've read but this one gave me a real headache. I fail to understand the fuss and the over hyped reviews or maybe, just maybe, I have outgrown lesflics.
I picked up this book because it has a gay doctor, a bisexual character and slow burn romance. The story is good and I wanted to like it, I tried so hard but it is stretched so much, it sucked all the fun out of it. I'm sorry to say but both Blair and Kylie bored me to death, Blair with her alternating spunk and crying spells, and Kylie with her borderline smothering behaviour and insecurities. Another annoying thing was how the surgeries were described in such a crass way. As a person belonging to medical field, the very same surgical branch so elaborately discussed in the book, I would suggest you don't include surgeries rather than including it only to make it so gross. Kylie could have well been an embryologist and their first meeting would have been the same. I sometimes felt that the surgeon part was added just to throw in the circumcision coversation and to add that extra bit of OT drama at the end. I just finished this book to honour my OCD of finishing what I started.
All I want to say is, I won't be recommending this book to anyone. If I could, I want to delete it from my brain.
I would prefer to read Chris and Laura's story any day than this extremely long tirade between Blair and Kylie.