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Wild Crush by Simone Elkeles

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easypeasy17's review

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lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I’m a big fan of this author’s other books and so I had high hopes for this one. Unfortunately, it just didn’t live up to my expectations. The pace moved too slowly and having a character sulk for half the book just isn’t for me. I feel like having the death happen at the beginning of the book would have been better because we could have then seen how the two main characters moved on from it and bonded together over their mutual grief. Instead, by having it in the middle, it caused the ending to feel rushed. We as readers are told many things about these two characters and how they’re attracted to each other but don’t realize it. But we never really get to see that as their interest in each other is developing. It just feels too forced because the story is more focused on a character that dies and how he exists in between the 2 main characters.

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