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A review by tundaria
Compete by Vera Nazarian
2.0
I think my final conclusion is that this one's pretty close to So Bad It's Good (or maybe just Guilty Pleasure?). The awkwardness goes through the roof – so many scenes where I was just continually telling the book to stop. And most of the romance stuff was more hilarious than anything else. idk, it’s objectively not a high-quality book, but I’m enjoying it anyway for some reason?? So that’s something I guess. I do really think this could be an amazing story and series with significant editing and revisions, but as it is… it’s not great.
A lot of the problems with the last book are exacerbated here, so it seems like this one has even more need for extra editing. In Qualify, those issues were annoying but bearable; in Compete, I'm nearly at the point where I'm unwilling to forgive it. Gwen is even more special than last time, although she at least gets less "I shouldn't be telling you this but…" information. Aeson is even more mercurial, flipping between moods like there's some kind of switch involved.
In terms of other characters, I miss Dawn. Dawn was cool. Can she come back? Or can we at least have more Blayne? Most characters from the last book aren't mentioned 90+% of the time.
A lot of the problems with the last book are exacerbated here, so it seems like this one has even more need for extra editing. In Qualify, those issues were annoying but bearable; in Compete, I'm nearly at the point where I'm unwilling to forgive it. Gwen is even more special than last time, although she at least gets less "I shouldn't be telling you this but…" information. Aeson is even more mercurial, flipping between moods like there's some kind of switch involved.
In terms of other characters, I miss Dawn. Dawn was cool. Can she come back? Or can we at least have more Blayne? Most characters from the last book aren't mentioned 90+% of the time.