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A review by coscolluelamn
The One That Got Away: A Novel by Charlotte Rixon
2.0
Thank you to @Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for an advanced copy of this book.
The premise was so appealing...the book ultimately was not. I love myself a second-chance romance and I thought I would love this but Clara is unlikable. Benjamin is more favorable. I know characters should be flawed but, dang, Clara reads as whiny and clingy all throughout. It is understandable as a university student since we all try to figure ourselves at that age (and really our whole lives) but over two decades, I did not see her grow as much as Ben. I did not feel their chemistry and wanted Ben to find someone else.
I did appreciate such heavy themes the book tackles, however. And, there were a lot of them. It is not a lighthearted read by any means.
The premise was so appealing...the book ultimately was not. I love myself a second-chance romance and I thought I would love this but Clara is unlikable. Benjamin is more favorable. I know characters should be flawed but, dang, Clara reads as whiny and clingy all throughout. It is understandable as a university student since we all try to figure ourselves at that age (and really our whole lives) but over two decades, I did not see her grow as much as Ben. I did not feel their chemistry and wanted Ben to find someone else.
I did appreciate such heavy themes the book tackles, however. And, there were a lot of them. It is not a lighthearted read by any means.