kmhedges's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
mylittlebiglibrary's review against another edition
3.0
While I still really enjoyed reading this, it was just waaay too slow burn for me. And that’s saying something as a fan of nearly all the other books of hers I’ve read. Luna is a great character and seeing her interact with Rip and the other guys around her was great, but she screws herself over a lot by taking a lot of crap that she doesn’t have to. There’s a difference between patience and giving someone the benefit of the doubt because they might be having a bad day, and letting yourself be a punching bag. Luna allows people to cross the line and use her over and over again. I’m not saying I wanted her to be petty, but she needed to get a spine a lot sooner and stand up for herself. Build up her self-esteem. Her relationship with Rip also took waaaay too long to develop. We didn’t get to actually see them together until the very end, and that’s not what I want from a romance book. It was all build up with very little payoff. Overall, still enjoyed it, especially when Rip just refused to let her go it alone, but I wanted a lot more than I got from this over 600 page book.
fremzz's review against another edition
4.5
Multiple times I had to close the book and take a pause to giggle, I no longer know who I am.
kendallthefire's review against another edition
3.0
3.75 stars
The Lord and all his angels know that I love me a good slow burn by my girl Zapata but halfway through this book it started to fall short of MZs previous books. Or maybe I just have on rose-colored glasses when it comes to her writing because this feeling of not being completely satisfied with her books is becoming the rule and not the exception. I felt like it was the basic plot of a lot of her other books. The main man is a jerk but he has liked the main heroine from the very beginning. Towards the end of the book, he reveals that and all previous wrongs are ignored and they live a HEA of my dreams. It was great at first when I didn't know MZs shtick but now it’s become expected... there are more reasons than a guy being bristly and short-tempered for why a love story can not be insta-lovey.
In this book, there were good parts of course. Parts where I felt supremely sorry for the predicaments and places the main character, Luna, was plopped down in. Places where I squealed with excitement or laughed because of an interaction with Lucas Ripley, our main guy, that had gone well. But there were also parts that I didn't like as much. I felt for Luna and slightly identified with her because I have trust issues too. I don't like to give love if it is not going to be received well. And Rip being so wishy-washy and cruel to her drove me crazy. one minute I was over the moon because he called her baby girl and driving her to someplace 3 hours away from Houston the next moment I would be pissed because he has a definite anger problem. There also like every MZ book was a pacing problem... the book was like 500 pages and didn't need to be.
I don't know. I think I will always love reading her books and immediately put any book that she writes in my TBR pile but sadly they are starting to lose their shine.
The Lord and all his angels know that I love me a good slow burn by my girl Zapata but halfway through this book it started to fall short of MZs previous books. Or maybe I just have on rose-colored glasses when it comes to her writing because this feeling of not being completely satisfied with her books is becoming the rule and not the exception. I felt like it was the basic plot of a lot of her other books. The main man is a jerk but he has liked the main heroine from the very beginning. Towards the end of the book, he reveals that and all previous wrongs are ignored and they live a HEA of my dreams. It was great at first when I didn't know MZs shtick but now it’s become expected... there are more reasons than a guy being bristly and short-tempered for why a love story can not be insta-lovey.
In this book, there were good parts of course. Parts where I felt supremely sorry for the predicaments and places the main character, Luna, was plopped down in. Places where I squealed with excitement or laughed because of an interaction with Lucas Ripley, our main guy, that had gone well. But there were also parts that I didn't like as much. I felt for Luna and slightly identified with her because I have trust issues too. I don't like to give love if it is not going to be received well. And Rip being so wishy-washy and cruel to her drove me crazy. one minute I was over the moon because he called her baby girl and driving her to someplace 3 hours away from Houston the next moment I would be pissed because he has a definite anger problem. There also like every MZ book was a pacing problem... the book was like 500 pages and didn't need to be.
I don't know. I think I will always love reading her books and immediately put any book that she writes in my TBR pile but sadly they are starting to lose their shine.
book_worm_04's review against another edition
5.0
4.75 stars. This was a very good book and I loved how strong Luna was!