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A review by lmrivas54
The Consequence of Falling by Claire Contreras
3.0
Presley Rose and Nathaniel Bradley have known each other since she was fifteen and he was eighteen. From the first moment they met, she has been snooty and he has been snarky. This didn’t change through all the years they’ve known each other. Presley’s father, who owns a brewery company, started mentoring Nathaniel since he was eighteen, giving him odd jobs, helping pay for his college and keeping a close friendship all this time. Presley married her college sweetheart who wanted into politics and ended up elected as New York’s mayor. Through all this time, whenever Presley and Nathaniel meet, there has been snark. She acts bitchy and he acts like a jerk. There’s an underlying attraction there, but she rejects him in favor of the easy guy. Five years later she’s divorcing the politician and starting to work for her father. On her first day on the job she learns her father sold half of his company to Nathaniel, who is one of those wunderkind guys who made it big with an invention.
This all sounds like a fun book to read, but the fact is that the characters are not nice to each other. There’s no funny banter or brilliant zingers in their conversations, but rather dialogue that points to Presley having a chip on her shoulder and Nathaniel acting arrogant and cocky. Presley has a complex about being disregarded as a woman by all the men in her life, which she expresses frequently to her father and Nathaniel, and Nathaniel makes frequent references to Presley about not doing enough at her job. I got a little tired at all the digs, until finally, they connect and the dialogue gets somewhat sweeter.
I get the impression that Presley has always been reacting to her circumstances and doesn’t have a clear idea of who she wants to be and what she wants to do. Nathaniel seemed to have a hidden agenda, and I suspected he wanted to win her over, but jeez, he got an F on courting a woman when he called her on not doing a job.
The first part of the book was a little annoying but the second part was much better. There was sweetness and sadness and more consideration between characters. And I finally saw Presley getting a backbone and acting mature without the whining about being left out of men business.
This all sounds like a fun book to read, but the fact is that the characters are not nice to each other. There’s no funny banter or brilliant zingers in their conversations, but rather dialogue that points to Presley having a chip on her shoulder and Nathaniel acting arrogant and cocky. Presley has a complex about being disregarded as a woman by all the men in her life, which she expresses frequently to her father and Nathaniel, and Nathaniel makes frequent references to Presley about not doing enough at her job. I got a little tired at all the digs, until finally, they connect and the dialogue gets somewhat sweeter.
I get the impression that Presley has always been reacting to her circumstances and doesn’t have a clear idea of who she wants to be and what she wants to do. Nathaniel seemed to have a hidden agenda, and I suspected he wanted to win her over, but jeez, he got an F on courting a woman when he called her on not doing a job.
The first part of the book was a little annoying but the second part was much better. There was sweetness and sadness and more consideration between characters. And I finally saw Presley getting a backbone and acting mature without the whining about being left out of men business.