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A review by books_ergo_sum
Muscles & Monsters by Ashley Bennett
2.0
That two stars feels harsh because, really, this little book was fiiine. The MCs were cute, I was rooting for them.
But what really took me out of it was the whiplash it was giving me. We’d go directly from a scene that was soo cutesy, awkward, flirting, blushing, emojis—to a scene that was full-on dirty talk schmexy times, then back again. With absolutely nothing to mediate the two extremes.
The Hegelian in me was like, dude where’s my concrete universal? Where’s the actualization of a rational self-consciousness in another self-consciousness? That mediation *is* the love story, which… wasn’t present in the book? It was strange.
The two extremes were fun on their own but flip flopping between them was too weird for me.
The two extremes were fun on their own but flip flopping between them was too weird for me.