bbdelphine's Reviews (209)

Ventre(s)

Louise De Bergh

4.5

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

Kaitlyn Tiffany

4.0

funny informative medium-paced

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Brett Forrest

2.25

challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

The Apology

Eve Ensler

5.0

challenging dark sad fast-paced

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

2.5

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The House of My Mother

Shari Franke

4.0

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

The Bromance Book Club

Lyssa Kay Adams

2.0

emotional lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

While the premise was very promising, it was just plain boring. The stakes, that should have been high -

a crumbling marriage

- weren't engaging. The characters were so one dimensional. I'm not against flawed characters in the slighest, but in romance, the characters need to be lovable in some sort of way at least at one point in the story, and Gavin wasn't at all.

It feels like a mockery of women's sexuality, and the place it has in a marriage. Can the male ego be any more fragile? Baffling.

Did he actually kiss her without her consent at least twice in the beginning?

What the actual hell?