When I do my montly round up at the end of July I will let you know which ones were good and which ones were bad.
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Looking forward to it. So I know which ones to buy first to get the good ones read. Because some of them are fantastic, some are average, and a few are dirge.
Oh, I agree some are fantastic, some are average but passible and some are just godawful.
It was such a clusterf*ck guys!!
Will put it behind spoiler in case someone wants to read it later unspoiled by my unadulterated hatred
So, first of course all reading is personal. Due to life stuff, I really dislike emotional cheating storylines being minimized. And that's exactly what happens here.
FMC is married and has been TTC for "years" (even though she's only 32, cause God forbid a romance involves a woman older than 35, we all know our lady bits have shriveled by then right?). She has a podcast about it which amounts to her full time job, and a rich husband who actually pays for their fancy lifestyle. They have s surrogate who is having their last two embryos implanted, against medical advice (just so you know the type of character we're meant to root for).
On the day that her surrogate's implant takes, FMC finds out that her husband has been cheating on her with their dog walker (the dog walker is a cliche straight out of a porn film). She kicks him out and uh... checks notes... runs to the house of her former male coworker she hasn't seen in 2 years (Golden Retriever man for those wondering). They almost have a thing.
And then, while in the present timeline she is moving on from her marriage faster than a Japanese bullet train while still hating and bashing her husband, the author weaves in some sappy flashbacks to the years she worked with Golden Retriever. And guess what? She had a full blown, years spanning, emotional affair with the guy that almost tipped into the physical on her 30th birthday right before she left the company to focus on trying to conceive.
Yeah. But because there was no P in V it's not as bad as her husband's affair with the dog walker, or so implies the author. We are supposed to root for her cause she fell in love! Life is messy, you guys!
And yeah sure it is. I could have gotten on board if at any point this woman had shown any modicum of self awareness. But nah.
Oh and the Golden retriever? Boring AF. Just the most perfect, unflawed man in the world who is just totally in love with her even after 2 years of NC and is willing to let go of his dream of being a biological dad just for her.
Oh and really unsexy sex scened.
Pass me the boke bucket.
FMC is married and has been TTC for "years" (even though she's only 32, cause God forbid a romance involves a woman older than 35, we all know our lady bits have shriveled by then right?). She has a podcast about it which amounts to her full time job, and a rich husband who actually pays for their fancy lifestyle. They have s surrogate who is having their last two embryos implanted, against medical advice (just so you know the type of character we're meant to root for).
On the day that her surrogate's implant takes, FMC finds out that her husband has been cheating on her with their dog walker (the dog walker is a cliche straight out of a porn film). She kicks him out and uh... checks notes... runs to the house of her former male coworker she hasn't seen in 2 years (Golden Retriever man for those wondering). They almost have a thing.
And then, while in the present timeline she is moving on from her marriage faster than a Japanese bullet train while still hating and bashing her husband, the author weaves in some sappy flashbacks to the years she worked with Golden Retriever. And guess what? She had a full blown, years spanning, emotional affair with the guy that almost tipped into the physical on her 30th birthday right before she left the company to focus on trying to conceive.
Yeah. But because there was no P in V it's not as bad as her husband's affair with the dog walker, or so implies the author. We are supposed to root for her cause she fell in love! Life is messy, you guys!
And yeah sure it is. I could have gotten on board if at any point this woman had shown any modicum of self awareness. But nah.
Oh and the Golden retriever? Boring AF. Just the most perfect, unflawed man in the world who is just totally in love with her even after 2 years of NC and is willing to let go of his dream of being a biological dad just for her.
Oh and really unsexy sex scened.
Pass me the boke bucket.
Regarding the Beth O'Leary, I agree her books are getting progressively bad. She is clearly thinking of cuckoo plot twists first and foremost, above character arc or actual plot progression. And I'm tired.
There was almost no character development in this one and the plot twist was so unnecessarily convoluted.
There was almost no character development in this one and the plot twist was so unnecessarily convoluted.
After the road trip, I gave up. What she used to be able to do well, she just doesn’t do it anymore.