A review by maya_b
Saving Saint by Joel Abernathy

emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Read this book because I really wanted some friends to enemies to lovers, and I read somewhere this would be that, so even if it's not my usual kind of story, I wanted to give it a try, and I'd say it was what I was looking for, kind of, but also it was way too fast near the end there and in general the stuff near the end probably just wasn't for me.
But I mostly read this for the drama and heartbreak, and I'd say it delivered pretty well on those. There's a lot going on, a lot of tropes and klischees and just a los in general, but most of it did kind of fit together, and the first half or so of the book was pretty alright in my opinion. Also some stuff after that as well, and in general I'd say all of it was alright, it's just that it got a little too kinky for me at some point in a way that felt like that stuff was more important than the characters actually talking and changing and working together, and it kind of felt like all the kinks were like a coping mechanism so they didn't have to actually work on their relationship, and that might be alright for some people, I think, it's just that I'm way more into emotional stuff instead of nsfw-stuff, so at some point it kind of fell apart for me, sadly, and I didn't like it as much as I hoped I would.
It was still a pretty easy and fast read, even with the quite heavy topics, and I don't regret reading it or anything, I just wished that the "recovery" would have been a little more detailed and written-out, because like this I sadly lost interest at some point.