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A review by agnesbebon
Rafe by Rebekah Weatherspoon
fast-paced
2.0
I was really excited for this one and it fell short.
Things I liked:
- no third act breakup
- Rafe?? Super hot, super smooth, super cute
- the quiche scene? Yes absolutely
- the blurb on the cover was genuinely funny
- I enjoyed the beginning
- really cute and amazing mother-daughters relationship
- amazing, successful, single mother
Things I liked not so much:
- this book would’ve greatly benefitted from a round or two more of editing. There are typos, missing words, and grammatical issues that take away from a really fun story
- writing felt kind of flat at times, wish there as some more dynamic sentence structure
- forced back and forth dialogue to provide backstory and move the plot along
- scenes and chapters rarely felt complete
- would benefit from more show, less tell; pretty much everything was just told
- no transitions, scenes just felt kind of forced together
- definitely times where I was confused
- literally said “ha what” when all of a sudden it was three years later in the epilogue
- went way too fast for me
I overall just think it was underdeveloped. Conflicts were introduced and resolved on the same page, facts and moments that could’ve been developed really well were just mentioned in passing. I was left wanting more, but not in a good way, and I think most of these issues could’ve been resolved with more editing.
I will be reading Xeni, however. Rebekah did leave me interested in Xeni.
Things I liked:
- no third act breakup
- Rafe?? Super hot, super smooth, super cute
- the quiche scene? Yes absolutely
- the blurb on the cover was genuinely funny
- I enjoyed the beginning
- really cute and amazing mother-daughters relationship
- amazing, successful, single mother
Things I liked not so much:
- this book would’ve greatly benefitted from a round or two more of editing. There are typos, missing words, and grammatical issues that take away from a really fun story
- writing felt kind of flat at times, wish there as some more dynamic sentence structure
- forced back and forth dialogue to provide backstory and move the plot along
- scenes and chapters rarely felt complete
- would benefit from more show, less tell; pretty much everything was just told
- no transitions, scenes just felt kind of forced together
- definitely times where I was confused
- literally said “ha what” when all of a sudden it was three years later in the epilogue
- went way too fast for me
I overall just think it was underdeveloped. Conflicts were introduced and resolved on the same page, facts and moments that could’ve been developed really well were just mentioned in passing. I was left wanting more, but not in a good way, and I think most of these issues could’ve been resolved with more editing.
I will be reading Xeni, however. Rebekah did leave me interested in Xeni.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse