We get it. June has been crushing on this dude for years. We don't need this bashed over our heads every other sentence.
Beau might be theDNF.
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We get it. June has been crushing on this dude for years. We don't need this bashed over our heads every other sentence.
Beau might be the dumbest mmc I have read this year. How would you not know that he is chatting with June? I just...that whole premise was so stupid/was written really, really badly. Also, they were chatting for like a DAY when he is admitting to being turned on by this mystery person of whom he claims to have NO IDEA who it could be. Sir-for all you knew, it could have been your ex bf who stole your ex fiance. Like, what? And the questions he asks her to try and figure it out were so dumb. Supposedly you have spent a lot of time around June for the last 10 years and you can't figure it out at all? Again, that whole plot was so poorly written.
AVERY. This character is rage inducing. You're telling me that this 23 year old grown person gets away with not showing up/barely showing up to work and when she does, she doesn't even work and everyone is just like 'oh that Avery! what a goof!!' and she just gets a pass for acting like an immature, self absorbed, spoiled rich nepo baby? Like June literally says she has a heart of gold but the next scene is Avery throwing her bag on the ground for the staff to pick up like a spoiled asshole. WHAT. And her partying every single night. And her being dumb as a box of rocks. What even is this character. Why would you write a character like this and expect the reader to just go along with the 'heart of gold' narrative. Why is June friends with her? Why does her family let her be like this when none of them are remotely like this? Ugh.
Besides all that, the characters are all immature. The writing is juvenile. Beau falls for June in like 2 seconds. The premise of this is basic and poorly executed. Pass....more
The one star reviews on here for this book are making my day so thank you for that, fellow haters! lol!
DNF @25%.
I cannot. Nope. NO to the terrible wThe one star reviews on here for this book are making my day so thank you for that, fellow haters! lol!
DNF @25%.
I cannot. Nope. NO to the terrible writing. NO to the Mary Sue character who wears skirts down to her knees, has an aversion to anything fun, and *gasp* doesn't swear. NO to the insta love that is happening between a CAT and a human (yes, I realize he is actually a man but still it gave me the ick). NO to the cat being jealous of a human guy and getting possessive literally a day after meeting her (god forbid another male talk to her). NO to the cat being horny over her blushing. Just....no. I am bowing out of this before the 'spice' scenes that others have so kindly given a summary of on here and I am so happy about that because wtf. ...more
I might be in the minority but I got roped in to this because of the cover lmao - I like the cartoon style of it! BUT womp womp - the characters on thI might be in the minority but I got roped in to this because of the cover lmao - I like the cartoon style of it! BUT womp womp - the characters on the cover are nowhere near what they are described as in the book. He has light brown hair and she is a curvy redhead. Also no cat?? Lame and misleading!
That aside, this story is a hot mess. I mean, nothing really happens. They go to and from work; he is grumpy and she is at his beckon call. That's it. But for real...Is this man able to do ANYTHING for himself? A grown 30 sometime should be able to grab his own damn sandwich and coffee. He is also grump for absolutely no reason. He just is. Like sorry your mom wants to talk with you - if that is the worst of your problems I think you are doing okay in life sir. The office catty shit was over the top and stupid. And of course he solves that problem for her - if you can put together a whole team designated to bullying (in an office work environment where presumably everyone is 25+...I just...I have no words for that), you can certainly get your own coffee in the morning. I cannot with this guy. Also they jump from zero to 100 real quick. I am at 40% and I feel like he's gonna be on one knee by 50%.
The writing and characters are not for me. And I am let down by this cover. No thanks. ...more
I cannot take this MFC anymore. The slang. The naivety. The cringy dialogue. The poor writing. I was trying SO hard to like this too - I almost convinI cannot take this MFC anymore. The slang. The naivety. The cringy dialogue. The poor writing. I was trying SO hard to like this too - I almost convinced myself to keep giving it a chance but then Selene has to go and say 'cool beans'. Aaaand I'm out. TikTok lied to me several times about this series. ...more
I really wanted to like this but I found it so incredibly dull. It started off okay-I even highlighted a few humorous lines. Indy was by faDNF @ 50%.
I really wanted to like this but I found it so incredibly dull. It started off okay-I even highlighted a few humorous lines. Indy was by far the most exciting character (if only because she actually had personality other than ~quirky~). But the two main characters had zero chemistry and I found their scenes duller than watching paint dry. I can't really explain why because it wasn't that the writing was necessarily bad. I am bowing out at the part when the MFC is sobbing and screaming about a gopher eating her plants. I just don't care and find this reaction to be silly. ...more
I started skimming half way through and now Jessa shows up with his kid and I just can't do it anymore.
HOW are the readers supposed to be rootinDNF.
I started skimming half way through and now Jessa shows up with his kid and I just can't do it anymore.
HOW are the readers supposed to be rooting for Maliki and Sierra when we hardly get anything other than petty jealously and random ex's popping up every two seconds? On top of that, we are told that Maliki and Sierra are falling in love but...again, HOW? He spent half the book calling her jailbait to her face (b/c she's more than 10 years younger than him so barf at that) and the other half is her being jealous at every single girl he had sex with in the past or you know, glances at. It's ridiculous. Sierra is written as VERY immature and Maliki is written as a possessive asshat. I am not sure where the story is here. The plot is VERY thin. The characters are cliche messes. I don't believe they are in anything other than lust, but even that has the fun sucked out with possessive jealousy.
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I'm at 40% and this is how it is going so far:
-No plot. If you want to read your porn instead of watch, more power to you! -The characters are all the most cliche you could possibly write a character to be. -The dialogue is SO cringy, my god. -MFC is annoying.
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I am going to force myself to continued reading because I am in a book club and no other reason but that, however, at 17% I can already tell you I hate everything about this. The main characters have ZERO personalities other than meek and a pushover (h) who lets everyone from her parents to her supposed 'love of her life' walk all over her and a possessive, domineering, jealous asshat (H). There is no story here. All of the story bits are glossed over and sped up to a point where I literally thought I missed a book because there is no backstory with these two. Why should I care about them if we are plopped into their story midway through unceremoniously? We didn't get any of the falling in love bit-we are told they love each other and that we should care. And when we are flashed forward two chapters in, we don't get any of her day to day life as a pop star or whatever. This book is going to be all about them having sex and no story. I can see it now. I will eat my words and come back here to edit if this is not the case.
Update at 50%: Yup-the above still rings very, VERY true. There is NO plot. It is all jealous jealous jealous *vigin*SEX, sex sex sex. Very cringy sex at that. I am convinced this author got her source material for this book from porn websites. ICK. ...more
I don't have anything nice to say about this book.
The writing is so, so, bad and juvenile. I cannot get past it. I am reading this for book club andI don't have anything nice to say about this book.
The writing is so, so, bad and juvenile. I cannot get past it. I am reading this for book club and I just...don't know if finishing this is even an option because every sentence makes me want to internally scream.
A basic writing class would teach you how to 'Show, not Tell'. I don't understand how books get published like this. In one chapter alone, there were no less than 70 telling sentences. Some examples from just a single chapter of this book: I smile, I don't know, I've heard, I was the one, I lie behind, I'm too wired, I take her, I listen, I take in, I've long since, I glace down, I smirk, I want to, I move my fingers, I think, I find, I whisper, I caress, I read, I know, I stopped, I watch, I started, I go off, I let my, I kiss, I shoot a glare, I am going, I press, I'm hard, I stay silent, I barely withhold, I lean in, I tilt my head, I quickly, I can see, I jump back....and so on. This is all punctuated by [cringy] dialogue, so I have no doubt that there would be more than that if not. There is not one lick of showing what these characters are doing. There is hardly a descriptive sentence to be found. I am constantly being told what they are doing, what they are thinking. An author should have some faith in the reader to figure out what a character is feeling by showing them. I do not need a run down of every step a character does/thinks from the moment he/she enters a room.
I know this review comes off as super mean, but honestly, this writing is 5th grade level writing and had no business being published as is.
I have TRIED to get through this. It has been almost a week since I started this and I started skipping around before 40% so I am gonna bow out of thiI have TRIED to get through this. It has been almost a week since I started this and I started skipping around before 40% so I am gonna bow out of this. DNF.
The characters have no chemistry to me. There should have been more flashbacks to really understand why they like each other (or hate each other or whatever it is they feel towards each other) instead of the remodeling b/c honestly those parts were boring....more
I...don't understand anything that is happening. Why does Juliette have these powers? What are they exactly? Why do some people die when she touches tI...don't understand anything that is happening. Why does Juliette have these powers? What are they exactly? Why do some people die when she touches them, while others do not? Why is the world the way it has become? Why did it seem like I was plopped into the middle of the story and have no clue how anything became to be? Why is everything a metaphor? Why are the main characters professing their love for each other at 17 when they haven't even seen each other for 3 years AND they never talked to each other before then? Did I miss a whole book? WHATWHATWHAT.
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DNF at like 50% for now because I really wanted to like this but I am just so confused and it is making me annoyed with everything about this. It feels like an idea...that wasn't fully fleshed out. Maybe (probably) it is explained in this book or later books eventually but like, I stopped caring a few chapters ago. So.
-Why is the main character almost 30 and still OBSESSED with something that happened in HS? WHY. Literally everyone is tellThis book is terrible. DNF.
-Why is the main character almost 30 and still OBSESSED with something that happened in HS? WHY. Literally everyone is telling her to get over it but she literally cannot.
-The two main characters have negative chemistry.
-The writing is terrible and repetitive. I skimmed almost half of what I did read. All the non-swearing swearing. JUST SAY SHIT. YOU ARE ALMOST 30.
-CHOCOLATE RED. I HATE when authors try to reinvent the wheel with some off the wall description of something. IT'S AUBURN. JUST SAY AUBURN. FFS.
-If you want any spice whatsoever, steer clear of this. There is none.
I came very close to DNF'ing this. I skimmed a whole lot. Archie is a terrible H. And Noelle is a doormat h who spends her whole life pinning after a I came very close to DNF'ing this. I skimmed a whole lot. Archie is a terrible H. And Noelle is a doormat h who spends her whole life pinning after a guy who chases every other character BUT her. No ma'am. Love yourself. Besides that I really really really dislike the writing of this. It is all telling. 'I went here." "Archie did this". Robotic as hell and not engaging. ...more
I am going to leave this as a DNF for now. All of the characters are highly annoying to me. Laine is way too passive and weirdly also impulsive. Her hI am going to leave this as a DNF for now. All of the characters are highly annoying to me. Laine is way too passive and weirdly also impulsive. Her husband, Josh, is completely clueless and why are these two married? There is no connection there for me-how, after 12/13 years, do you not know the main thing your wife wants? And why the hell would Laine just not tell him outright that if he doesn't want kids she is going to walk away-like, just tell him outright! Don't play games to see if this clueless human will figure it out on his own. If you are married to someone that long and they really, truly cannot get to the right conclusion on their own, good fucking riddance. Seriously wtf. Laine's sisters come off as mean and overbearing. I just didn't like anyone so for now, I am not going to finish this (if I ever do). ...more
Words cannot adequately express how much I loathed this book. What the flying fuck did I just read? Never have I ever skipped whole sex scenes in a roWords cannot adequately express how much I loathed this book. What the flying fuck did I just read? Never have I ever skipped whole sex scenes in a romance book before. Alas...
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X-I hated the main characters X-I hated the storyline X-I skipped every single sex scene after like the second time Enzo basically raped Sawyer. It happens ALOT. X-The faux feminism and all around problematic *gestures to whole book* - I cannot. Nope. Nope nopenopenope
What I got out of this: >I will be skipping every and all other books by the author. Especially now that I know she wrote Haunting Adeline that is currently being reviewed by the hot guy (I think his name is Zack) on TikTok - apparently it is traumatizing. I will take all y'alls word on it and PASS. ...more
The main character of this is SO dumb. Like I would have been okay with her being killed off by the end, dumb. [image]
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1. The writing: juvenThe main character of this is SO dumb. Like I would have been okay with her being killed off by the end, dumb. [image]
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1. The writing: juvenile. It just wasn't very good.
2. The plot: Oh boy. I can't. The first 40% of this had me gripped but the whodoneit aspect of this got old fast and just was not appealing at all-mostly I was just annoyed with it. It was Shane! No it was Tim! No it was the prison guard! FFS. It didn't help that Brooke was dumb as a pile of rocks. I swear to god she would walk into a burning building if someone told her it wasn't burning. She trusted everyone and no one at once. She had NO backbone. She barely had any personality. Also, getting someone out of prison after 10 years is not as easy as just taking back your testimony! What?! What was that. That is not a thing. And Shane's mother helping with all of the murders and her reasoning is just flimsy at best. The friendship between Tim and Brooke was not fleshed out at all and therefore, I felt nothing between them- friendship or otherwise. There were no stakes. By the end I was rooting for everyone to kill each other and be done with it. ...more
LMAO. The rollercoaster I just went on reading some of these reviews! I came here because of the absolutely ridiculous sex scenes that happen 20% into LMAO. The rollercoaster I just went on reading some of these reviews! I came here because of the absolutely ridiculous sex scenes that happen 20% into this trainwreck after the h lost her husband like a week before and is already in bed with some stranger. I thought THAT was bad (but seriously-the 'dirty talk' is SO CRINGY). Oy vey. I was actually sad at first reading some of the reviews because this turns out to be a paranormal book (?!) that had a lot of promise but then I read allll of the absolutely bonkers shit that was put in (alien broccoli baby??!) and the non-trigger warnings on a VERY triggering book. So yeah...I think I will stop right where I am and mark this DNF, thanks. ...more
This was a chore to finish. I felt absolutely zero chemistry between Winnie and James. None. Also, James-what was his deal? He wasn't just moody, and This was a chore to finish. I felt absolutely zero chemistry between Winnie and James. None. Also, James-what was his deal? He wasn't just moody, and broody-he had a serious anxiety issue, right? Or was it something even more than that that was never really addressed fully? Other than that, their little game of jealousy every time a member of the opposite gender so much as looked at them was ridiculous and annoying. They weren't even dating, yet he would go all cave man and 'claim' her unofficially (ugh.). Also, if you were looking for more than a few kiss scenes in terms of smut...there is none. Also, Also, the instalove is strongg. The whole book takes place over the course of a few months, and they already love each other. The last chapter is 6 months in, and he already asks her to marry him. Sure. Okay. ...more