Became a tech billionaire by his twentieth birthday. Has been in a relationship with me for 3 years.
Has proposed 4 times. Been rejected 4 times.
Lee:
Cuts grass when he’s not banging housewives. Good with his hands, his mouth, and his cock. Has been pursued relentlessly by me for almost 2 years, whether he knows it or not.
Go ahead. Judge me. You have no idea what my love entails.
If you think you’ve heard this story before, trust me – you haven’t.
Ummm…. I think it’s possible that I am broken. Before you readthis review, I
will acknowledge the fact that many, many people absolutely adored this
book. Most of my friends have given it 5
stars wishing they could give it more.
For me, I just never had buy in.
Part of that was that I just couldn’t connect with
Layana. She grew up feeling stifled under
the weight of her parents and their expectations as she came from a well off family. She was to go to the best schools, and meet
and marry the best kind of man and spend her life dedicating it to her family and
a charity. She’s so upset by this and
wants to go outside of what is expected
of her that she gets a degree from a great university and then *gasp*
gets a job…the horror. She holds out at
said job until her trust fund kicks in where she promptly leaves her job and
then dedicates her time to a charity a few days a week…so other than not
getting married, what exactly are you fighting against?
So for me, from the beginning I couldn’t connect with
her.
From there, I just had a hard time with the story. There isn’t one specific thing…it was the lack
of connection, the bouncing from first to third person in Brant’s head to first
person in Layana to first person in Brant to Jillian and so on, it was hard to
feel connected for me. (That is a
personal quirk, I have to love both characters to love a dual POV…and any more
than two and I start to get unhappy).
The story wasn't always easy to follow because at some point even the main character knows the secret but it is still being kept from the reader and it's just frustrating...I've spent more time trying to get through reading this book and writing this review than any other book I've ever read.
Here’s my other issue, I was pretty sure I knew what the big
secret was…and I was right. I tried to
talk myself out of it, told myself it couldn’t be…but it was. The clues were there and I followed
them. But I think Torre waited too long
to reveal the secret to the point where I almost didn’t care what it was
anymore. When you have to have your
friends talk you into continuing to read a story…it just loses something.
All that being said, I am in the absolute minority of
this. Everyone else I know fell in love
with this book. It is not your typical
romance…and when she says you think you’ve heard this story but you haven’t –
she’s right. But in the broken minority
here, it just didn’t work for me.
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