Kiki's Reviews > Off Sides

** spoiler alert ** DNF at pretty much first chapter.
It’s me, not you.
This is an absolute personal preference.

I’m not from the upper class, if anything i may belong to lower middle class, so I don’t roll on trust fund money. I am not awfully smart, I never passed philosophy 101. I’m on the average side of intelligence.

I’m also not stunningly breathtakingly pretty or beautiful. No man has looked at my face and forgotten how to speak. Very few has looked back twice or admired.

So tell me something, does that give your gorgeous, polished, superficially smart trust fund babe a right to insult me? Simply cause she feels like it? Simply cause she feels she’s superior?

I don’t know any theories by “Ockham’s Razer” to stun you to silence. Fuck! I don’t even know who or what Ockham’s Razer IS. So I should slowly fade to background while your buddy insults me and the others find amusement out of it. YOU find amusement out of it until it’s too much too obvious and harsh, then you just feel a little embarrassed but decide it’s easier to let me cop it than argue with the vicious buddy of yours? Until you see me, and is struck by insta something I have no value?

That’s exactly what the hero did.

This is his ex to heroine who’s an waitress:

“The table goes silent then I hear Angeline say in her most affronted voice, “Excuse me. But we are in the middle of an important discussion. Do you think it’s appropriate to just interrupt us with the assumption we are ready for you?”

Just because she was doing her job!

And THIS is hero’s reaction:

“Everyone starts laughing hysterically, myself excluded. But I do give an inner smirk to myself and just shake my head. Angeline can dress someone down and make them feel about three inches tall in just a matter of seconds. It’s a true art form of the criminally wealthy and insanely narcissistic.”

Oh! What a gentleman! He doesn’t laugh AT the heroine loudly, but he laughs nevertheless.

So what if this was a 40 year old single mum or dad who dropped out from high school? And didn’t have the wit or energy to answer back to his ex? He would have deserved this treatment from hero’s ex and it’d be ok for hero to smirk to himself?

The heroine had to prove her worth in intellect first, then had to be stunningly attractive for hero to notice.

I just couldn’t get past that. Yes, he left a $50 tip, BECAUSE she charmed him with her wit, NOT because he genuinely felt guilty for his companion’s behaviour. Yes, they have an HEA, he loves her, they’re soulmates. But to me he’s nothing but an ugly frat boy blowing daddy’s money.

I’m 30 years old, I love fluff in romance but at the same time I refuse to accept glittery foil as gold.

Respect needs to be earned as a person however minimum respect is something a human being deserve! Be that a waiter, a sales clerk or a tradie. You treat them as your equal as a human being.

Hero failed to give minimum respect to a waiter at a restaurant, I refuse to give him any respect as he hasn’t earned it. I’m out.