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A review by earem001
Black Rainbow by J.J. McAvoy
3.0
So despite crying how much romance isn’t really for me I’ve been on a hot streak. I haven’t stopped reading it for the last few weeks. Why? I’m not sure. But that’s besides the point. The point is, despite that I still went into this bad boy hoping for something. And it fell short.
For starters, the sex scenes weren’t great. They just weren’t written all that well, (yes, it has reached that point in my adult life that I can recognise bad sex scenes/writing and that I have expectations of it, who knew? [Apparently not me]) So yeah, there was that and the fact that as much as I preach ‘age is but a number’, (since I still act twelve) the thirteen year age gap between our two main characters was still something that I wasn’t 100% sure about.
The characters? Well, they just weren’t that exciting. At all. I wanted to fall in love with Levi. Heck he sounded good in the blurb! But he really wasn’t as 'amazing’ as they talk him up to be. I would have thought a hot shot Lawyer would have a slightly more compelling personality and we might get to see some of his brains instead of his dick, but no, wishful thinking. There wasn’t even that much sex and yet I still read more about his grunts than his intelligence. Smart guys are hot, come on people.
And then, my god, why did she rush that ending? And why the heck was is so melodramatic? Please explain? I almost feel like I would have been okay with it being melodramatic if Mcavoy had spent more time on it. But it was almost like left field drama that we’ll just brush over and not really use to add all that much to the plot. Alright sure, maybe I sound a bit OTT. I mean, I still had a nice time reading it. And I loved that it touched on real life issues of race, (although not much) but I think the ending just killed me (hah) and then it got me thinking way too much about what really bothered me about it. So here we are.
But if you aren’t fussed about my above points go ahead a read it bud!
For starters, the sex scenes weren’t great. They just weren’t written all that well, (yes, it has reached that point in my adult life that I can recognise bad sex scenes/writing and that I have expectations of it, who knew? [Apparently not me]) So yeah, there was that and the fact that as much as I preach ‘age is but a number’, (since I still act twelve) the thirteen year age gap between our two main characters was still something that I wasn’t 100% sure about.
The characters? Well, they just weren’t that exciting. At all. I wanted to fall in love with Levi. Heck he sounded good in the blurb! But he really wasn’t as 'amazing’ as they talk him up to be. I would have thought a hot shot Lawyer would have a slightly more compelling personality and we might get to see some of his brains instead of his dick, but no, wishful thinking. There wasn’t even that much sex and yet I still read more about his grunts than his intelligence. Smart guys are hot, come on people.
And then, my god, why did she rush that ending? And why the heck was is so melodramatic? Please explain? I almost feel like I would have been okay with it being melodramatic if Mcavoy had spent more time on it. But it was almost like left field drama that we’ll just brush over and not really use to add all that much to the plot. Alright sure, maybe I sound a bit OTT. I mean, I still had a nice time reading it. And I loved that it touched on real life issues of race, (although not much) but I think the ending just killed me (hah) and then it got me thinking way too much about what really bothered me about it. So here we are.
But if you aren’t fussed about my above points go ahead a read it bud!