A review by jackieyvette
Fight or Flight by Samantha Young

medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.75

I feel so many things for this book. 
The whole situation between Gemma and Nick was the absolute dumbest thing I've read in months. Why would a whole town feel bad for them and not Ava? To me that is just so unbelievable, so it just really took me out of the story. Like I already thought the explanation was pretty bogus, but that was just dumb as hell. Why would anyone care that Ava never forgave Gemma Who in their right mind would? Why the hell would I forgave such a huge betrayal because at the end of the day Nick is a man so what do we expect but Gemma was like a sister to Ava?? Maybe it's because I could never forgive or feel sorry for someone like Gemma, but I don't understand why Ava feels anything towards her. Like yeah sorry she died, but not sorry for anything else. Everything else she deserved, especially Nick.
But even without this bogus storyline I was never going to like this book because of Ava and Caleb. I like a controlling, fast and lustful storyline as much as the next person, but it needs to know when to die off and this thing just kept going and going. There chemistry was not hot or interesting enough for this to go on and on. They needed something more than just sexual tension. Even when they were meant to be soft, loving and open towards each other it just felt forced. The way he talked about her and the way she liked to take care of her appearance was really upsetting and was never going to let me like him. So, because she likes to dress up all the time, she's a bad person? Please be serious. Super misogynistic and gross. 
Then the Carrisa storyline happened and that really just let me know I was right in thinking all this because what the fuck was that?!? Okay, so they set up this woman to be a bad person, so they paint her to be vapid, gold-digging and selfish which okay because this happens all the time in media, it's an easy character to hate. But then the "big reason" he hates her and can never love again is because she got an abortion and didn't tell him until after it was done. I don't care how vapid a person is, the last thing I'm about to do is judge them for doing what they want with their body. Yes, he wanted the child, but it wasn't his decision to make. To make her out to be a monster because she did not want to have a child is so insane, I can't even describe my anger towards it. Calling her "the deplorable ex" set me the hell off

 If that had not been introduced in the last 20% of the book this would have been my first DNF ever.
Also, her literal boss helping him to see her again on the plane at the end was super weird. Why would your boss do that, like what an unsafe thing to do.

This book was just so bad. The crazy part is I loved her book A Cosmic Kind of Love.
Justice for Leo. 


Crying score: please be serious. 
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