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A review by readers_block
This Is Not Over by Holly Brown
1.0
Ugh. I really, really hated this book. I thought about giving up several times, but persevered with the optimistic hope that it would get better. It didn't. I DNFed about 3/4ths of the way through.
To start - I hated the premise. It simply makes no sense. You have to give me something more believable than two people getting irrationally angry with each other over a short term vacation rental and what is akin to a bad AirBnB review. But no such justification is given - we're just meant to accept that this is rational behavior we should go along with.
Secondly - I despised, despised, despised Dawn. I'm sick of self-sabotaging characters who do so just to advance the plot. I mean, Miranda was no walk in the park either, but at least she was wrestling with some real internal demons. Dawn was stirring shit up just to stir shit up.
In the end, I gave up shortly after Dawn essentially cheated on her extremely kind, caring husband by having phone sex with the meth addict (are you kidding me?) I decided life is too short to even attempt to read the last quarter of this. Hard pass on this whole train wreck of a book.
To start - I hated the premise. It simply makes no sense. You have to give me something more believable than two people getting irrationally angry with each other over a short term vacation rental and what is akin to a bad AirBnB review. But no such justification is given - we're just meant to accept that this is rational behavior we should go along with.
Secondly - I despised, despised, despised Dawn. I'm sick of self-sabotaging characters who do so just to advance the plot. I mean, Miranda was no walk in the park either, but at least she was wrestling with some real internal demons. Dawn was stirring shit up just to stir shit up.
In the end, I gave up shortly after Dawn essentially cheated on her extremely kind, caring husband by having phone sex with the meth addict (are you kidding me?) I decided life is too short to even attempt to read the last quarter of this. Hard pass on this whole train wreck of a book.