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ash_chooses_pikachu 's review for:
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
by Elizabeth O'Roark
The heroine was a mega idiot and a doormat at times, but overall the story was pretty interesting. I did have to majorly suspend my disbelief at times, like how unaware the heroine was about Somalia's situation, which I could have accepted at first, but when she just acted like she was going on a romantic getaway to a fucking WAR TORN COUNTRY, which is dangerously unstable, without even researching first, I just felt like slapping some sense into her. It's just plain idiotic at that point. And then I hated even more that she acted like a spoiled brat when the hero didn't immediately keel over with joy upon seeing her in a life-threatening situation. Even after being repeatedly told, and even after seeing herself how dangerous the situation was, she was like "guess he wasn't lying about this being dangerous". You GUESS?! I just lost all respect for her then and there. The whole going-to-a-warzone-on-a-whim thing was SO IDIOTIC.
Also, I couldn't help comparing this book with the first book in the series, and felt like Hayes and Tali had waaaay more chemistry than these two. I hated that even in the extended epilogue the heroine still had doubts about the hero's intentions.
The pacing of the story felt a bit off. I felt like the author spent A LOT of time describing their millions of hikes in the story, while the whole evil-manager+assistant+whoever storyline, which was this oh-so-insurmountable problem throughout the whole story, was just magically fixed. A bit more attention should have been given to how the heroine managed to take them down, IMO.
My final complaint: how flippantly they treated the heroine's coke usage. It's never regarded as an addictive substance, the heroine seemingly started and stopped using it with no issues at all, which I find COMPLETELY unrealistic given her dad was an addict and as far as I know, addiction can be a genetic issue. I just don't understand how even the hero, who is a bleeding heart doctor, doesn't even bat an eye when the heroine admits to doing coke.
Also, I couldn't help comparing this book with the first book in the series, and felt like Hayes and Tali had waaaay more chemistry than these two. I hated that even in the extended epilogue the heroine still had doubts about the hero's intentions.
The pacing of the story felt a bit off. I felt like the author spent A LOT of time describing their millions of hikes in the story, while the whole evil-manager+assistant+whoever storyline, which was this oh-so-insurmountable problem throughout the whole story, was just magically fixed. A bit more attention should have been given to how the heroine managed to take them down, IMO.
My final complaint: how flippantly they treated the heroine's coke usage. It's never regarded as an addictive substance, the heroine seemingly started and stopped using it with no issues at all, which I find COMPLETELY unrealistic given her dad was an addict and as far as I know, addiction can be a genetic issue. I just don't understand how even the hero, who is a bleeding heart doctor, doesn't even bat an eye when the heroine admits to doing coke.