regrettably, and at risk of revealing too much about myself, that sounds right up my street@LaBlonde I would still give it a try, esp for the price it is!
It could just be me and my current moodI have a feeling its going to be a lot of ‘he is uber famous and I am normal and he will never love me’ and that’s not my vibe.
I read it before the hype (humble brag) and I also gave it 3 stars. It was an easy enough read but nothing ground breaking/unique.
Same. My inner teenager is mentally gazing at an imaginary poster of a character from a book I only just bought and haven’t even downloaded to Kindle yet.. swoon.regrettably, and at risk of revealing too much about myself, that sounds right up my street
……. are you me 🥹
)I almost never imagine people's faces, weirdly. Only if I start to specifically ponder what a film of the book would be like!……. are you me 🥹
(this is me when i take an insane amount of time casting just the right actor to play the male lead in order for me to fully picture the book in my head
regrettably, and at risk of revealing too much about myself, that sounds right up my street
i love this thoughIt’s so weird for me, because if I’m reading a book about ‘normal’ people, I need it to feel really realistic, like if a super famous billionaire falls in love with someone who just lives a normal life I’m immediately like “hmm… doesn’t seem real now does it!?.”
But then I’ll happily sit there reading fantasy romance thinking, ‘yess, this 1,000-year-old fae warrior and a very ordinary girl orphaned girl from another realm? Completely believable. No notes’’
My brain has very specific standards for what counts as realistic in reading and apparently they make absolutely zero sense
it makes sense! like if the book is slightly rooted in reality, i get why you would also be like but this just wouldn’t happen here in this world i recognise and so you can’t fully buy into it.i wish i could say this but i can’t even start a book without a cast being formed in my brain. and then halfway through i get annoyed because there’s a character description and it doesn’t look like connor storrie, who has been used as my leading man quite frequently recently 🥲
There’s a special one where the girls are gifted dolls who turn into princes and transport them to another world. I have it somewhere and must reread.the sweet valley high special editions which were always insane (a prince falls in love with elizabeth! they’re in london and there’s werewolves for some reason!) and had no bearing on the actual series were my absolute favourites
i reread an absolute load of them over lockdown and completely forgot that the series ends with a huge natural disaster
not that long ago I absolutely loved the super unrealistic stuff romances, the whole lot. I used to fully buy into it and genuinely enjoy it without question and I actually had a re-read of one my fave billionaire romance books from years ago as I was in a slump and it just didnt hit it for me in the slightlesti love this though
on a similar vein i’m rereading boyfriend material (after liking it a few years ago) and it is SO annoying to me this time around because of the “fun” writing style and that every single character and location is written like an unbelievably quirky sitcom. it’s meant to be set in real london but i can’t buy into anything that’s happening because nothing about any of it seems real.
Yes see this is why I bought it despite the negativity. I can forgive a lot for beautiful writing. I am just not a plot person. My first priority will always be writing that stirs my soul. I love a book that makes me want to constantly underline emotive phrasing, insightful prose and stunning sentiments.
you are me
i’ll forgive a LOT if the writing is genuinely beautiful, and this is one of those examples!Do you think you might have Aphantasia? I only found out it was a thing a few months ago. I had genuinely no idea that people could voluntarily create mental images. Like, when asked to picture an object, I don’t experience a mental picture, but instead rely on conceptual knowledge. Apparently only 1% to 4% of the population has aphantasia
Thanks for indicating that I should avoid a reread ahead of Father Material! I hate the description of where Luc's mum lives, something about it really annoys me.i love this though
on a similar vein i’m rereading boyfriend material (after liking it a few years ago) and it is SO annoying to me this time around because of the “fun” writing style and that every single character and location is written like an unbelievably quirky sitcom. it’s meant to be set in real london but i can’t buy into anything that’s happening because nothing about any of it seems real.
I don't think I have full aphantasia, but it's work for me to picture something, and I'm not a visual reader. If I got transported to a fantasy world of a book I've read, I'd have no clue until I started hearing place names (and even that might not work)
oliver is a dreamboat and luc doesn’t deserve him
i don’t know quite why liked it so much the first time around.I forgot about the double-barrelled Jameses, oh god. Honestly, it's probably that there wasn't much like it out there at the time, and now there's much better.oliver is a dreamboat and luc doesn’t deserve him
but yes, the descriptions of luc’s mum and the insane jilly cooper village she lives in is just nonsense. and his whole friendship group with the gay couple who have the same exact name and tom being too posh to even exist is all so silly that i can’t see any of them as real people. the fake dating also pointless as no one really seems to be paying any attention to them? and i LOVE fake dating
I've just finished The Best Of Everything. I scored it 4.5 out of 5.
I don't think so. When I'm reading a book I can picture the scenery, rooms, what people are doing and wearing, I just don't really picture their faces in detail? No idea why
