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A review by sarah_lou
Latte Girl by Katia Rose
1.0
This was tough for me to get into. It’s an extremely slow burner of a story and has two POVs that are my pet hate. I also hated the way men are in this book that I just can’t stand all the sleazy comments and sexist attitude that had me gritting my teeth and just not enjoying it. Even the male MC Jordan is a sexist so-so the second he meets the girl…even though she’s supposed to be this amazing looking girl to him…his mind instantly goes to sex.
Yea….
And I’m only on chapter 4, but what time of business man starts doing jumping jacks in the middle of the cafeteria…it’s taking everything for me to keep reading.
Okay… I forgot that the Haily the female MC is also hyper sexualised in her thoughts as well. I mean…sigh. I know this story is supposed to be a love story, but there are ways of falling for someone without being totally focused up about sex and sex acts. Like, people actually fall for their personality or their looks without getting sexual.
“My not-so-tempting inner temptress” — *growns* this didn’t work for Fifty Shades, it isn’t suddenly going to work now.
The interaction don’t make sense! One minute they’re talking about parks and cafe, Jordan is about to say something that he doesn’t want to say and stops, so Haily goes ‘Jordon’ to get him to talk and he takes it as a invitation to try and get intimate for the first time??
Okay, so by himself Jordan doesn’t seem so bad than his work colleagues. Like he comes across a decent and not sexist.
Then after reading about all this buildup of them kissing, when they do actually kiss it’s not built up and it falls…flat…and it’s cliche. I wish there written with more passion and feeling behind it.
Some identical descriptions come up a few times that I felt like I was having deja-vu. This isn’t a bad thing if it was intentional, but it kinda kicked my head out of the story for a few moments. Also Hailey has had the whole night to think of their first kiss and it takes her till midmorning the following day to finally get annoyed at him?? How slow can you be with your own emotions??
There's a flashback scene of the male MC and his dad telling him to not see how mother...this is the scene that really had me thinking of stoping for two reasons:
1) It was WAY too unrealistic and disjointed.
2) In the space of 2 pages there were 4 typos.
The dialogue between the characters sometimes seems off. They say such melodramatic that normal people wouldn’t say. On the topic of dialogue: Dialogue and emotions just don’t ever get mixed in this story. They have a confrontation in the cafe where Jordon is trying to win Hailey back and he goes on a rant and there no break or description or emotion. It could’ve meant so much more. Also this is the scene that made me hate Hailey.
I LOVED the Flirtini night scene- I love when they were giggling and drunk and unable to speak. But then Hailey had to ruin it by shouting at Jordan over sitting with another girl when they’ve only ‘briefly’ kissed once and what was happening between them wasn’t even a relationship. She came across a bit of a psycho and when Steve was asking to go home with him…why did she go through the whole night in her head? What normal person thinks like that?
The introduction of Steve seems too conveniently placed just for the sake of the story. Like, I would have liked Steve to pop into the cafe a bit easier than this, just to get to know him and to not seem like a convenient plot device.
I just had to stop reading because I no longer cared for the characters and felt like nothing was moving forward. So it's DNF for me.
Yea….
And I’m only on chapter 4, but what time of business man starts doing jumping jacks in the middle of the cafeteria…it’s taking everything for me to keep reading.
Okay… I forgot that the Haily the female MC is also hyper sexualised in her thoughts as well. I mean…sigh. I know this story is supposed to be a love story, but there are ways of falling for someone without being totally focused up about sex and sex acts. Like, people actually fall for their personality or their looks without getting sexual.
“My not-so-tempting inner temptress” — *growns* this didn’t work for Fifty Shades, it isn’t suddenly going to work now.
The interaction don’t make sense! One minute they’re talking about parks and cafe, Jordan is about to say something that he doesn’t want to say and stops, so Haily goes ‘Jordon’ to get him to talk and he takes it as a invitation to try and get intimate for the first time??
Okay, so by himself Jordan doesn’t seem so bad than his work colleagues. Like he comes across a decent and not sexist.
Then after reading about all this buildup of them kissing, when they do actually kiss it’s not built up and it falls…flat…and it’s cliche. I wish there written with more passion and feeling behind it.
Some identical descriptions come up a few times that I felt like I was having deja-vu. This isn’t a bad thing if it was intentional, but it kinda kicked my head out of the story for a few moments. Also Hailey has had the whole night to think of their first kiss and it takes her till midmorning the following day to finally get annoyed at him?? How slow can you be with your own emotions??
There's a flashback scene of the male MC and his dad telling him to not see how mother...this is the scene that really had me thinking of stoping for two reasons:
1) It was WAY too unrealistic and disjointed.
2) In the space of 2 pages there were 4 typos.
The dialogue between the characters sometimes seems off. They say such melodramatic that normal people wouldn’t say. On the topic of dialogue: Dialogue and emotions just don’t ever get mixed in this story. They have a confrontation in the cafe where Jordon is trying to win Hailey back and he goes on a rant and there no break or description or emotion. It could’ve meant so much more. Also this is the scene that made me hate Hailey.
I LOVED the Flirtini night scene- I love when they were giggling and drunk and unable to speak. But then Hailey had to ruin it by shouting at Jordan over sitting with another girl when they’ve only ‘briefly’ kissed once and what was happening between them wasn’t even a relationship. She came across a bit of a psycho and when Steve was asking to go home with him…why did she go through the whole night in her head? What normal person thinks like that?
The introduction of Steve seems too conveniently placed just for the sake of the story. Like, I would have liked Steve to pop into the cafe a bit easier than this, just to get to know him and to not seem like a convenient plot device.
I just had to stop reading because I no longer cared for the characters and felt like nothing was moving forward. So it's DNF for me.