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A review by konvineo
A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
2.0
I'm pretty sure that I missed something while reading. Some subtext. Or maybe I just didn't understand straight up text.
I don't understand how we went from Michael being a rude dirtbag to Penelope starting to like/love him despite every shitty thing he did. Like I'd understand if she got resentful, and started disliking based on what I understood to be happening in the story. He acted threatening, used intimacy against her then turned around and acted cold, he left her alone immediately after entering his house, he kept dismissing what she wanted to do with her life, and generally didn't listen to her. Yes, he did do a few kind of nice things for her (the ice skating specifically), but based on previous behaviour I wouldn't trust that bit of kindness... unless we look at it through the lense of Michael being abusive and kind of love bombing Penelope.
So yeah, I'm absolutely not understanding how we got from point A to point B, when the only improvement that I saw was right at the end of the book.
I don't understand how we went from Michael being a rude dirtbag to Penelope starting to like/love him despite every shitty thing he did. Like I'd understand if she got resentful, and started disliking based on what I understood to be happening in the story. He acted threatening, used intimacy against her then turned around and acted cold, he left her alone immediately after entering his house, he kept dismissing what she wanted to do with her life, and generally didn't listen to her. Yes, he did do a few kind of nice things for her (the ice skating specifically), but based on previous behaviour I wouldn't trust that bit of kindness... unless we look at it through the lense of Michael being abusive and kind of love bombing Penelope.
So yeah, I'm absolutely not understanding how we got from point A to point B, when the only improvement that I saw was right at the end of the book.