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caitlyn_lutz's review against another edition
Characters are in their mid/late 20s but seemed very juvenile. The FMC narrator made her and her friends seem like stereotypical "dumb blondes" and the MMC just seemed creepy. It's one thing to admire someone from afar but searching, following, and messaging someone when they don't know you personally is just weird and I really don't know how a 24 year old law school student didn't come to the same conclusion, whether she liked his hockey team/career or not.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Vomit
kaylascoffeeplot's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault
melm1216's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
oh boy.
This is on me I think, I venture back from queer romance books once a year to see what heterosexual romance books are like these days. I shouldn't have.
Honestly, let's just make a list of everything wrong with this book to the point where I almost gave it my FIRST one star rating.
1. No, being roofied and saved by a creepy stalker hockey boy is not cute. Not cute! Not only is it not cute, the fact that he messages her as if she owes him something is even more gross. She doesn't owe him shit for doing the absolute bare minimum required of a man.
2. He never listens to her. She said so many times that she doesn't like men protecting her, buying expensive things for her, trying to save her. And she doesn't like surprises. So naturally, he is concientious about all these things and doesn't do them, right? NO. He continues time and time again to not listen to her because of his own ego and "how he is raised to be as a hockey player who has all this money." Give me a break. Maybe if you payed attention to her she wouldn't have dumped you in the first place, idiot.
3. Oh, and how he made her law gala and her graduation about him. If someone showed up at my LAW SCHOOL GRADUATION and tried to win me back I would laugh in their face and walk away forever. What a selfish thing to do, as if she would be so happy to see him that it wouldn't matter that he showed up at probably one of the most important days of her life.
4. Oh, and the fact that SHE had to compromise despite the fact that she didn't listen to a word she said for the entire book and was weird while she was roofied and UGH.
5. Also, she didn't want to tell him that his teammate literally sexually assaulted her because she didn't want him to punch his brains out because she doesn't like violence, and he knew she doesn't, and yet when he finds out he acts selfishly. Again. What a surprise.
6. Also, he proposed after like, 4 months. What?
I think I could say a lot more, but I honestly just want to put this book somewhere in my brain where I never have to think about it again. Is this what straight women deal with? Also, I don't think they ever followed up on Mitch and Lexi, unless I completely missed that part. I would rather read that story. 1.5 stars.
This is on me I think, I venture back from queer romance books once a year to see what heterosexual romance books are like these days. I shouldn't have.
Honestly, let's just make a list of everything wrong with this book to the point where I almost gave it my FIRST one star rating.
1. No, being roofied and saved by a creepy stalker hockey boy is not cute. Not cute! Not only is it not cute, the fact that he messages her as if she owes him something is even more gross. She doesn't owe him shit for doing the absolute bare minimum required of a man.
2. He never listens to her. She said so many times that she doesn't like men protecting her, buying expensive things for her, trying to save her. And she doesn't like surprises. So naturally, he is concientious about all these things and doesn't do them, right? NO. He continues time and time again to not listen to her because of his own ego and "how he is raised to be as a hockey player who has all this money." Give me a break. Maybe if you payed attention to her she wouldn't have dumped you in the first place, idiot.
3. Oh, and how he made her law gala and her graduation about him. If someone showed up at my LAW SCHOOL GRADUATION and tried to win me back I would laugh in their face and walk away forever. What a selfish thing to do, as if she would be so happy to see him that it wouldn't matter that he showed up at probably one of the most important days of her life.
4. Oh, and the fact that SHE had to compromise despite the fact that she didn't listen to a word she said for the entire book and was weird while she was roofied and UGH.
5. Also, she didn't want to tell him that his teammate literally sexually assaulted her because she didn't want him to punch his brains out because she doesn't like violence, and he knew she doesn't, and yet when he finds out he acts selfishly. Again. What a surprise.
6. Also, he proposed after like, 4 months. What?
I think I could say a lot more, but I honestly just want to put this book somewhere in my brain where I never have to think about it again. Is this what straight women deal with? Also, I don't think they ever followed up on Mitch and Lexi, unless I completely missed that part. I would rather read that story. 1.5 stars.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual harassment
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
tori_b_reads's review
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment
Use of date rape drug
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