Anne E ♡ emo + OTT Hs's Reviews > You Were Mine

1.5-star **Major SPOILERS under Plot and Sexual History**

Should've DNFed @ 11% but skimmed until the end since it picked up @ 33%. But then it went back down after 58%.

The GOOD:
1.) Good-enough emotionality with some angst
2.) Hot detailed bareback S scenes

The BAD:
1.) Weak & shallow characters
Due to 18yo H leaving town after their secret summer fling, 16yo h drowned her sorrows with sex & alcohol. She had no ambitions to pursue anything other than her just-to-pay-the-bills waitressing job she got via her aunt. Eight years later, she's still doing the same thing.

H cowered under his wealthy parents’ pressure & rebelled by leaving town instead of going to Yale. He didn't communicate his travel plans to h. Nor his plan to come back for her 2 years later, when she became legal. He slept with her, knowing she was underage and that he was going to leave town soon. Neither did that much to fight to stay together or be reunited soon or have a long-distance relationship since they could've easily been in contact secretly through H's many friends and h's aunt-boss. Or text/phone/Skype (This was written in 2014). Instead, they slept with other people to get over each other and h's pregnancy loss. And never reached out 1 year, 2 years, or more to discuss what happened. H had a bike so he could've come back to meet up with her at a secret location, if he really wanted to.

2.) H's inconsistent persistence & obsession with h
One day (or 6 months), he's all possessive & stalkery obssessive. But then, with a little rejection from h or threat from his dad, he deflates and soon dates other women. He also lacked responsibility and was ok not working and just traveling around with his bike and golfing while being funded by his family funding. If it wasn't for h's frank talk about his joblessness and her worry about their future, he would've just kept golfing & puttering around. He was like a rich loser.

3.) Immature romance & unsure HEA

PLOT Highlights:
@11% h's POV revealed that she slept around with “whatever wealthy hot guy hit on (her)” at bars to drown her sorrows after H left her 8 years ago & that included his close cousin OM who she 1st smexxed coz he looked like H but ended up falling in love with him and dating him the next few years until recently when OM died from an accidental drowning.

Skimmed until about 30% when I felt some angst & interest from the major tidbits dropped re: what else was involved in H&h’s breakup & subsequent heartache were dropped including a baby they lost.

@33% h finally let H talk to her re: the baby she thought she aborted (her aunt later corrects her that she miscarried the baby at the clinic but h was knocked out so she didn't know & just assumed they aborted her baby all those years) & her sleeping with other guys to get over her & H took the blame for leaving her to deal with the fallback of her aunt & his dad finding out about their affair when h was still a teen.

@40% they called a truce to be friends but both jealous when the other is with another potential date. @46% H declared his plan to talk with h about all that happened 8 years ago when h was ready so they can both heal.

@58% h let H finger her to orgasm & he soon after told her ILY but she said it was too late.

@63% 3 months later H dates his ex-GF (OW) from high school to get over h since she rejected him but seeing h again when she was serving him & his date at the restaurant & she seemed jealous of OW confused him. It wasn’t until his friend told him to not just give up on h but fight for her that he told OW he couldn’t date her anymore & then pursued h again.

@89% H&h’s 1st sex scene after he agreed with her plan to date each other casually although he wanted to be exclusive. But after they smexxed he got all possessive claimy & wanted to be exclusive but she frankly told him that she couldn’t without a firm commitment from him since he can just walk away again from her again since he didn’t have a job and she didn’t want to move out of town.

@96% h hadn’t heard from H in 5 days & thought they were done until he ask her to go with him to show her the actual locations of the hotel and their future home that he recently purchased with his inheritance money & then proposed marriage.

Sexual History:
16yo trailer-park h was devirginzed by 18yo wealthy college-bound H during their short & secret summer fling before he was forced to go to Yale after his dad found about his fling with poor h & blackmailed H into leaving her. Both of them slept with other people to get over each other over the next 8 years. Since her BF's death 2 years ago, h had been celibate until H.

H had 4 previous lovers before h, including his recent ex-GF of 2 years who his parents wanted him to date. After h, he slept with bunch of other women to get over h but it didn’t work. When he came back to town 2 years ago, he was single and silently watching h dating his cousin. He left town again for awhile & no info on whether he dated or slept with anyone. When he came back again 6 months ago, he silently stalked h to give her support over losing her BF and due to his obsession with her. He seemed to have been celibate for that 6-month period. He didn't smex his ex-GF during the 1-2 week period he dated her after h rejected his ILY. Not sure if he kissed or touched her but he was willing to date her since he felt rejected by h and wanted to be with someone who wanted him and she was a good lover in the past.