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A review by amarettto
A Sucky Love Story: Overcoming Unhappily Ever After by Brittani Louise Taylor
5.0
I have so many thoughts. Okay, let me try and go through some main ones.
1. Like many of the other reviews say, her naivety was astounding. As terrible as it is, at various points in the FIRST HALF of the book I couldn't help but think that she brought this upon herself. As the book progressed and the REAL messed up truth started to surface, I sympathized because absolutely no one deserves that, but I couldn't shake this feeling off completely.
2. The one thing that angered me at the beginning was her being openly shallow about the type of men she sought. She went into vivid detail about how gorgeous Milos was, and basically objectified the hell out of him. I noticed that time and time again, she would mention pursuing the relationship, but nothing about his character. It seemed to me like the entire time she was drawn to just his body and irresistible eyes/face. What do you expect, then, if you pay 0% attention to integrity of character?
Also, I listened to the audiobook and her voice is super annoying, which makes the droning on about someone's body even harder to listen to.
3. Where the heck were her friends? She mentions a good number of his "cousins" and friends, but not a single person from her life besides her mother. This struck me as pretty odd.
4. Her mother is the real MVP of this book and reminded of why mothers are amazing.
5. It's kind of weird to me that she made so light of such traumatizing events. I agree it could be a coping mechanism or not wanting to come off as dark and depressed, but some parts were kind of flowery, as well as the cover page. Why is it so happy?
6. There were some quotes that just had me cringe. "I should be a detective, I'd be so good at it." UH, NO, it took you a year to figure out that he lied about basically EVERY aspect of his life. I saw half of it coming when she described the first date.
7. It's difficult to rate a book about someone's life. Giving it 3 stars just because of someone's stupidity or events I didn't like makes no sense because you can't fabricate parts of a story just to make it more appealing. I thought of docking points for poor writing style, but really, she isn't an author. I consumed the book in one sitting, something rare for me. The focus is the story and it was undeniably gripping.
1. Like many of the other reviews say, her naivety was astounding. As terrible as it is, at various points in the FIRST HALF of the book I couldn't help but think that she brought this upon herself. As the book progressed and the REAL messed up truth started to surface, I sympathized because absolutely no one deserves that, but I couldn't shake this feeling off completely.
2. The one thing that angered me at the beginning was her being openly shallow about the type of men she sought. She went into vivid detail about how gorgeous Milos was, and basically objectified the hell out of him. I noticed that time and time again, she would mention pursuing the relationship, but nothing about his character. It seemed to me like the entire time she was drawn to just his body and irresistible eyes/face. What do you expect, then, if you pay 0% attention to integrity of character?
Also, I listened to the audiobook and her voice is super annoying, which makes the droning on about someone's body even harder to listen to.
3. Where the heck were her friends? She mentions a good number of his "cousins" and friends, but not a single person from her life besides her mother. This struck me as pretty odd.
4. Her mother is the real MVP of this book and reminded of why mothers are amazing.
5. It's kind of weird to me that she made so light of such traumatizing events. I agree it could be a coping mechanism or not wanting to come off as dark and depressed, but some parts were kind of flowery, as well as the cover page. Why is it so happy?
6. There were some quotes that just had me cringe. "I should be a detective, I'd be so good at it." UH, NO, it took you a year to figure out that he lied about basically EVERY aspect of his life. I saw half of it coming when she described the first date.
7. It's difficult to rate a book about someone's life. Giving it 3 stars just because of someone's stupidity or events I didn't like makes no sense because you can't fabricate parts of a story just to make it more appealing. I thought of docking points for poor writing style, but really, she isn't an author. I consumed the book in one sitting, something rare for me. The focus is the story and it was undeniably gripping.