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Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
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bookshelves: disappointment, erase-from-my-memory, skim-skim-skimmerrr, zzz-im-sleep, romance, negative-stars, problematic-author, 1-star
May 27, 2023
bookshelves: disappointment, erase-from-my-memory, skim-skim-skimmerrr, zzz-im-sleep, romance, negative-stars, problematic-author, 1-star
worst $6 i have ever spent in my mf life. reading this book was the equivalent to ripping out each individual hair follicle on my head.
i actually can't believe i avoided every spoiler on this book like the mf plague thinking this series was gonna be a banger. all that hard work for nothing. wattpad, i'm so sorry for ever comparing this book to you. i've read books on wattpad a million times better than whatever the fuck i just read.
alright lets begin.
the length. the length of this book is enough to make me go dizzy. 626 pages in the copy i had, but other copies have over 800 pages. what is going on here? chloe walsh, may i introduce you to an editor perhaps? this book did not need to be as long as it was. and i genuinely thought since it was so long there would actually be shit happening in the book. i was mistaken. the book had absolutely nothing going on for about 99% of it, and that's me being generous.
chloe walsh must have thought she was saving the environment the way she recycled every single conversation and plot overnovernovernover again. basically just johnny driving shannon home every day and them having the same conversations. didn't realize he was signing up to be her chauffeur.
shannon
why in the fucking hell did i need to hear how small shannon like the river is every 5 seconds? there is absolutely no reason for me to be reading about how small she is the number of times i did. WE FUCKING GET IT. i was tired of it by the second page. yes, the second page. you read that correctly. it had already been mentioned at least 5 times by then. and then a million more times afterwards. shannon like the river and her tiny bone structure. she's so small and unable to do anything for herself. she needs literally anyone else to help her do the most basic human tasks.
the way this character is infantilized and then sexualized is disturbing. they constantly remind us of how tiny she is and how she acts like a child. she legitimately cannot do anything without needing help from someone else. you would think she would have some sort of development by the end of the book but she remains unchanged. her whole home life plot is explored so little you could literally forget its a factor. the book had more than enough pages to delve into that plot. but all we're supposed to care about is this girl's constant loop of a relationship with the popular rugby player. not the reason why she is literally emotionally and physically stunted. she acts like a child but we're told she's actually "mature" lol okay. and then they love to mention her body every 5 seconds and how hot johnny and other boys find her.
johnny
genuinely thought his name was josh the entire first half of the book. i hate this kid. all he did was talk about his dick for half the book, and how hot and tiny shannon like the river is and everything he wanted to do to her. being inside his head was the most painful experience of my life. the repetitive nonstop inner monologues really made me homicidal. pure torture it was putting myself through this. i could skip pages and still wind up back in the same spot.
he loved to create problems for him and shannon like the river out of thin air. one of the dumbest characters i've read about in a while. it was fun laughing at him sometimes though so at least there's that.
where was the love? the chemistry? the connection? there was over 600 pages and somehow nothing to convince me these two were made for each other. johnny needs to get his ass back to dublin and shannon like the river needs years of therapy and a stable household.
anyways see below the big josh and tiny shannon. how lovely!
joey
he barely was in this book but he is the only good thing in it. carried the book. there is no way i would enjoy any other book in this series, but this man is a gem. i will appreciate his character from afar but i truly do love him so much.
i brought the review back bc fuck the bullies yall can stay mad.
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when the plan to br finally makes it out the dms 🤭 iqra lets hope we love it or hate it together <3
i actually can't believe i avoided every spoiler on this book like the mf plague thinking this series was gonna be a banger. all that hard work for nothing. wattpad, i'm so sorry for ever comparing this book to you. i've read books on wattpad a million times better than whatever the fuck i just read.
alright lets begin.
the length. the length of this book is enough to make me go dizzy. 626 pages in the copy i had, but other copies have over 800 pages. what is going on here? chloe walsh, may i introduce you to an editor perhaps? this book did not need to be as long as it was. and i genuinely thought since it was so long there would actually be shit happening in the book. i was mistaken. the book had absolutely nothing going on for about 99% of it, and that's me being generous.
chloe walsh must have thought she was saving the environment the way she recycled every single conversation and plot overnovernovernover again. basically just johnny driving shannon home every day and them having the same conversations. didn't realize he was signing up to be her chauffeur.
shannon
why in the fucking hell did i need to hear how small shannon like the river is every 5 seconds? there is absolutely no reason for me to be reading about how small she is the number of times i did. WE FUCKING GET IT. i was tired of it by the second page. yes, the second page. you read that correctly. it had already been mentioned at least 5 times by then. and then a million more times afterwards. shannon like the river and her tiny bone structure. she's so small and unable to do anything for herself. she needs literally anyone else to help her do the most basic human tasks.
the way this character is infantilized and then sexualized is disturbing. they constantly remind us of how tiny she is and how she acts like a child. she legitimately cannot do anything without needing help from someone else. you would think she would have some sort of development by the end of the book but she remains unchanged. her whole home life plot is explored so little you could literally forget its a factor. the book had more than enough pages to delve into that plot. but all we're supposed to care about is this girl's constant loop of a relationship with the popular rugby player. not the reason why she is literally emotionally and physically stunted. she acts like a child but we're told she's actually "mature" lol okay. and then they love to mention her body every 5 seconds and how hot johnny and other boys find her.
johnny
genuinely thought his name was josh the entire first half of the book. i hate this kid. all he did was talk about his dick for half the book, and how hot and tiny shannon like the river is and everything he wanted to do to her. being inside his head was the most painful experience of my life. the repetitive nonstop inner monologues really made me homicidal. pure torture it was putting myself through this. i could skip pages and still wind up back in the same spot.
he loved to create problems for him and shannon like the river out of thin air. one of the dumbest characters i've read about in a while. it was fun laughing at him sometimes though so at least there's that.
where was the love? the chemistry? the connection? there was over 600 pages and somehow nothing to convince me these two were made for each other. johnny needs to get his ass back to dublin and shannon like the river needs years of therapy and a stable household.
anyways see below the big josh and tiny shannon. how lovely!
joey
he barely was in this book but he is the only good thing in it. carried the book. there is no way i would enjoy any other book in this series, but this man is a gem. i will appreciate his character from afar but i truly do love him so much.
i brought the review back bc fuck the bullies yall can stay mad.
───
when the plan to br finally makes it out the dms 🤭 iqra lets hope we love it or hate it together <3
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Reading Progress
November 20, 2022
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May 27, 2023
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Started Reading
May 27, 2023
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1.0%
"if i hear how small she is one more time 😃 giving me tutoring the player flashbacks rn"
May 27, 2023
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5.0%
"I looked down at the tiny little female under my arm.
Who could attack her?
She was so small.
And frail.
im not even joking the amount of times they mention how small she is is driving me insane i have the ick. is it satire or smth??"
Who could attack her?
She was so small.
And frail.
im not even joking the amount of times they mention how small she is is driving me insane i have the ick. is it satire or smth??"
May 31, 2023
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45.0%
"you could skip 100 pages of this book and still know exactly whats happening bc they just go around in the same circles 😐"
May 31, 2023
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67.0%
"”Oh, that’s good,” my mother breathed. “You’re a good boy.”
A good boy?
Was I a bleeding dog?
There was nothing good about what I wanted to do with Shannon Lynch.
💀💀 sit down boi"
A good boy?
Was I a bleeding dog?
There was nothing good about what I wanted to do with Shannon Lynch.
💀💀 sit down boi"
May 31, 2023
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73.0%
"every day this girl crashes into a wall of muscle. this book is so wattpad coded its not even funny"
June 1, 2023
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75.0%
"”I’m doing the math here, Shannon, and two plus two equals a bad bitch.”
this is the most unserious shit 😭 bc the way mans says this randomly in the middle of an argument 💀"
this is the most unserious shit 😭 bc the way mans says this randomly in the middle of an argument 💀"
June 1, 2023
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Pretty much the entire book was about Johnny letting his ex torment him, Shannon getting too overwhelmed by anything, having a fragile tantrum and rushing out of school early only for Johnny to give her a ride, them having awkward af conversations the entire time and thinking their conversation flow was amazing. Which newsflash to them it was almost unbearable to read through. Johnny wanting her but not wanting to ruin his plans for the future that were pretty much already ruined, him skipping training to hang out with the 'thing he's supposed to be avoiding', complains about it, him talking about his bits, him being a moody fuck as well as ungreatul to Gibsie including holding his responsible and telling him off for letting him bulldoze with Shannon yet every time Gibsie was trying to help his friend keep his promise to keep him away from Shannon, Johnny goes all agro and doesn't let anyone get in his way, then and him obsessing of tiny little Shannon like the river, and how small she is but what brutal sexual things he wanted to do to a girl he thought of as a small child. Shannon getting abused and doing nothing about it, obsessing over Johnny, talks about how she's so unattractive yet it's mentioned numerously how so many guys are after her. Other than this repetitive crab that cycles through the entire book, there is like nothing. And I'm so glad I'm not the only one who felt this way.
Also it was super annoying how Johnny was all obsessed with Shannon yet wouldn't be with her, but denied her the right of being with other guys by threatening all the guys to stay away from her or he'd kill them. Like it's super controlling, he either wants her or not. Being her "friend" but secretly in love with her, doesn't give him the right to own her and not let her be with others.
Shannon and Johnny individually were just dumb af. And together they had absolutely no chemistry.
The whole book was wayyyy to long and needed an actual plot, the 'drama' was weak. Important potentially interesting information was touched upon VERY briefly with no detail, yet there was also scenes that dragged on for pages with LITERALLY no purpose or anything actually going on.
Just pure boring, torture, pain, and a waste of time and potential.
omg don’t even get me started on the ex storyline lmfao. and then shannon constantly going through the same thing 93847378237 times as if that doesn’t get tiring. thank you. it was so unbearable sitting through their awkward conversations. and then expecting us to believe they’ve fallen in love ⁉️⁉️ EXACTLY OMG shes literally described as looking like a child and he sits there and talks about how “tiny” she is and how attracted he is to her. and how desired she is by every other boy. its so disturbing. the way you described everything so perfectly has me crying. that’s basically the entire plot 😃 such a wonderful 600+ pages to go through.
honestly the book is just filled with terrible characters and an even worse plot. this could have been SO good if handled well. this story had so much potential and thats the most disappointing part. i agree about how important topics were just briefly touched on but then the most useless shit would go on endlessly. this is why this is genuinely the worst book i’ve ever read it has no redeeming qualities.
You’re doing a public service with this review 🙏 I read two chapters and was so shook at how god awful it was. Glad I stuck with the DNF 🥲