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The Pucking Wrong Number by C.R. Jane
1.0
1.5 ☆
Why? Because it had potential...and that would be about it.
Eveytime i read i go in with zero expectations and yet this book has found its way to disappoint me, thoroughly might i add.
Definitely feels like a "spending more time promoting your book than writing it?" situation.
Where do i even start...
•The Storyline
Starting off with some positive comments i must say the premice sounded promising, enough for me to pick up the book and want to read it unfortunately the book didn't make it any justice. The first 10% of the book was good, it introduced the MC's past and it promised somithing really interesting, nevertheless when the story started to actually develop the chance of that amazing storyline was just wasted. It could have been a great book, the ideas were great but it just did not work out.
•The Characters
Their "trauma" -if i can even call it that because it was barely described- was way too overlooked for my liking, yes it was talked about in ocasions but i dont get the a feeling of depth whenever the subject was approached, i feel like their backstories were probably just thrown in to add more plot points to the novel.
The MC had a personality of my liking, at least at the beginning of the book when she got the text messages nevertheless she contradicted herself all of the time. She said something and then acted against in the next chapter, in multiple ocasions and not in a fun i-have-been-persuaded-by-the-love-interest way, her changed were absolutely unjustified, i found myself frowning in various ocasions just at the things she thought, said or did.
•The Relationship
I never understood the moment the character made that switch into the romantic territory, everything went so fast, the actions almost never had justification or descriptions for our understanding as to why was something happening, things just happened and i could never understand why.
I get the feeling that this book was trying so hard to be a dark romance but failed miserably at it. This book has tooth rotting fluff (not against it) but then it was contradicted by some very dark tendencies from the Love Interest which felt very odd for the nature in which the book was firstly present to us.
The extremes of the fluffiness and darkness made me think like the "dark" scenes were just thrown in there to make this book look dark but in essence it is a literal romcom which just ended up in the characters having a wierd looking relationship in my opinion.
And don't even get me started on the tattooed dick. Too much, Too son, Way too soon, maybe even too much at all. It's not too late to delete that scene yk.
•The Smut
How can i describe it in one word? Dull? Maybe? When someone decides to write a book and add an open door romance it means they want to add explicit content in it -detailed smut in other words- still the smut in this book was not detailed at all, i sometimes had trouble understanding what they were doing because it was just not explicit, the words used were very generic and the scenes were so short and careless it felt like the author definitely overlooked this topic and tried to forced these scenes upon the book. The spice was so stale i might as well could have tried to poke it with a stick for it to do something.
•The Writing
The writing was fine, nothing to surprise nor spook. The structure of the book though was something i found really off and that played a huge role in my dislike for the novel. There were often times when the scenes would fade to black, just skip a moment, and come back and honestly it felt like i was somehow being robbed of background, i've read books were this happens and it does not bother me, but it was a constant issue here, way too much of a repeated situation, honestly the author could have just written those scenes down and it would have provided very much needed filler scenes.
The writing felt rushed and i felt like scenes were just thrown in there without context or justification, it absolutely felt like a wattpad book in the sense that the work was filled with scenes that kept your attention but didnt actually help understand the developtment of the characters relationship...it just happened.
Epilogue #1 was so unnecessary i literally laughed in disbelief when i read it. It was 2 pages of "smut" with zero plot, zero context (zero details might i add) and zero justification, when i said we needed filler chapters i meant it for the author to actually put them IN the book not at the end of it.
•Overall
Finishing the book was my favorite part, im never getting my time back from it, i would have dnf'ed it if my ocd would allow me to actually dnf books instead of having to read the full thing once i start it.
Personally i dont care about dark themes, i love them, i actually choose my dark romances by their trigger warnings nevertheless i know there is people who dont work well with them or just don't like because surprise we all have different taste, this book has no trigger warnings, no content warning, not even an author's note regarding the topics talked in the book which may i remind you were thrown in completely unexpectedly.
I dont know if the author was trying to pass this acts as a normal romance or what but this book should have had trigger warnings.
I didnt care about them but someone might want- need them and that is what people apparently don't realize because the author probably went with this decision because they were not faced.
Even if the scenes were written very superficially and the depth of the scenes is not as big as other books the themes are still there so this should have had a trigger warning.
In my opinion content warnings should include at least:
- Somnophilia
- Dub-Con
- Use of drugs and Overdose
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Groping/Sexual Abuse
-"Kidnapping"
- Past Character Death
- Toxic/Obsessive Behavior
- Child Abuse
Some people might need more but i think these is the bare minimun it should have been added into an warning page.
I'm genually surprised this book got a green light from the editors.
Why? Because it had potential...and that would be about it.
Eveytime i read i go in with zero expectations and yet this book has found its way to disappoint me, thoroughly might i add.
Definitely feels like a "spending more time promoting your book than writing it?" situation.
Where do i even start...
•The Storyline
Starting off with some positive comments i must say the premice sounded promising, enough for me to pick up the book and want to read it unfortunately the book didn't make it any justice. The first 10% of the book was good, it introduced the MC's past and it promised somithing really interesting, nevertheless when the story started to actually develop the chance of that amazing storyline was just wasted. It could have been a great book, the ideas were great but it just did not work out.
•The Characters
Their "trauma" -if i can even call it that because it was barely described- was way too overlooked for my liking, yes it was talked about in ocasions but i dont get the a feeling of depth whenever the subject was approached, i feel like their backstories were probably just thrown in to add more plot points to the novel.
The MC had a personality of my liking, at least at the beginning of the book when she got the text messages nevertheless she contradicted herself all of the time. She said something and then acted against in the next chapter, in multiple ocasions and not in a fun i-have-been-persuaded-by-the-love-interest way, her changed were absolutely unjustified, i found myself frowning in various ocasions just at the things she thought, said or did.
•The Relationship
I never understood the moment the character made that switch into the romantic territory, everything went so fast, the actions almost never had justification or descriptions for our understanding as to why was something happening, things just happened and i could never understand why.
I get the feeling that this book was trying so hard to be a dark romance but failed miserably at it. This book has tooth rotting fluff (not against it) but then it was contradicted by some very dark tendencies from the Love Interest which felt very odd for the nature in which the book was firstly present to us.
The extremes of the fluffiness and darkness made me think like the "dark" scenes were just thrown in there to make this book look dark but in essence it is a literal romcom which just ended up in the characters having a wierd looking relationship in my opinion.
And don't even get me started on the tattooed dick. Too much, Too son, Way too soon, maybe even too much at all. It's not too late to delete that scene yk.
•The Smut
How can i describe it in one word? Dull? Maybe? When someone decides to write a book and add an open door romance it means they want to add explicit content in it -detailed smut in other words- still the smut in this book was not detailed at all, i sometimes had trouble understanding what they were doing because it was just not explicit, the words used were very generic and the scenes were so short and careless it felt like the author definitely overlooked this topic and tried to forced these scenes upon the book. The spice was so stale i might as well could have tried to poke it with a stick for it to do something.
•The Writing
The writing was fine, nothing to surprise nor spook. The structure of the book though was something i found really off and that played a huge role in my dislike for the novel. There were often times when the scenes would fade to black, just skip a moment, and come back and honestly it felt like i was somehow being robbed of background, i've read books were this happens and it does not bother me, but it was a constant issue here, way too much of a repeated situation, honestly the author could have just written those scenes down and it would have provided very much needed filler scenes.
The writing felt rushed and i felt like scenes were just thrown in there without context or justification, it absolutely felt like a wattpad book in the sense that the work was filled with scenes that kept your attention but didnt actually help understand the developtment of the characters relationship...it just happened.
Epilogue #1 was so unnecessary i literally laughed in disbelief when i read it. It was 2 pages of "smut" with zero plot, zero context (zero details might i add) and zero justification, when i said we needed filler chapters i meant it for the author to actually put them IN the book not at the end of it.
•Overall
Finishing the book was my favorite part, im never getting my time back from it, i would have dnf'ed it if my ocd would allow me to actually dnf books instead of having to read the full thing once i start it.
Personally i dont care about dark themes, i love them, i actually choose my dark romances by their trigger warnings nevertheless i know there is people who dont work well with them or just don't like because surprise we all have different taste, this book has no trigger warnings, no content warning, not even an author's note regarding the topics talked in the book which may i remind you were thrown in completely unexpectedly.
I dont know if the author was trying to pass this acts as a normal romance or what but this book should have had trigger warnings.
I didnt care about them but someone might want- need them and that is what people apparently don't realize because the author probably went with this decision because they were not faced.
Even if the scenes were written very superficially and the depth of the scenes is not as big as other books the themes are still there so this should have had a trigger warning.
In my opinion content warnings should include at least:
- Somnophilia
- Dub-Con
- Use of drugs and Overdose
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Groping/Sexual Abuse
-"Kidnapping"
- Past Character Death
- Toxic/Obsessive Behavior
- Child Abuse
Some people might need more but i think these is the bare minimun it should have been added into an warning page.
I'm genually surprised this book got a green light from the editors.
Skin of a Sinner by Avina St. Graves
4.0
The author definitely knows how to grab the readers attention with that beggining.
★★★★/5
★★★★/5