papercranestitches's review
4.0
For such a short book, I found that Ex-Boyfriend Material was high on both character and relationship development. No, that relationship development didn't take the expected romance trope-filled path (one of the characters is demisexual, so that romantic burn was sloooooow), but I enjoyed it all the more because of that.
Just a word of warning to my friends that crave a little smut with their sweetness... You're only going to get a single blink-and-you'd-miss-it hand job scene in this story; there is no on-page sex. But don't fret, I found the heart boner this story gave me instead completely satisfying.
Just a word of warning to my friends that crave a little smut with their sweetness... You're only going to get a single blink-and-you'd-miss-it hand job scene in this story; there is no on-page sex. But don't fret, I found the heart boner this story gave me instead completely satisfying.
nigmatillium's review
1.0
This is the driest novel I ever read. The only thing that comes to me while thinking about this novel is a stale piece of bread. Perhaps missing some key ingredients too. There are some missing in the novel for sure.
What makes me feel something about it, and that's being a bit pissed, is that there is potential. This could have been a good novel, but I feel like the author got sick of reading sad, angsty novels that they slapped a few words together and rolled with it without bothering too much.
I could have loved Liam and Alex, but as it is, I don't even know anything about them except for what it's said to us and even then I don't buy it. It's not believable. Even the side characters are there only to tell us what is supposedly going on because the description does such a poor job at it. So yeah, no one is missing anything on this.
What makes me feel something about it, and that's being a bit pissed, is that there is potential. This could have been a good novel, but I feel like the author got sick of reading sad, angsty novels that they slapped a few words together and rolled with it without bothering too much.
I could have loved Liam and Alex, but as it is, I don't even know anything about them except for what it's said to us and even then I don't buy it. It's not believable. Even the side characters are there only to tell us what is supposedly going on because the description does such a poor job at it. So yeah, no one is missing anything on this.
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