A review by just_a_city_gorl
Stupid Cupid by Maeve Black

3.0

• I’m quite disappointed with this honestly. I feel like the things I was expecting and excited for just weren’t there. 
• This book could’ve been a bit longer and more developed. There’s hardly any background on the characters, with some information like Val’s bully being thrown randomly into the mix towards the end where it made no sense. It just felt a little bland and I wasn’t able to really care about the characters. 
• I was hoping for fun banter and a fun dynamic between them but there was nothing and any moments they had together where they bonded and liked each other were just mentioned rather than being shown. So from the get go I didn’t understand why they liked each other so suddenly after only like two times spent together where it was sexual instead of them having any kind of bond or relationship. 
• And any time something important came up instead of talking through their feelings and caring for the other like in loving relationships they’d just have sex and go back to having a shitty relationship. It just didn’t make me route for them. Pyro made me a bit uncomfortable with the way that he treated Val sometimes. We’re just supposed to believe that he loves Val at the end when that doesn’t seem to be the case. It just felt underdeveloped. 
• Also Pyro’s anger was shit. The way he acted towards Val when he was angry made me very uncomfortable, and a lot of the dynamics they had when having sex would bleed into their everyday lives and it felt a bit like a power imbalance which I can’t stand. It should stay separate and I hated that about this especially. 
• I didn’t care for any of the side characters and any development they had was little and barely shown. Again, it felt flat and like there wasn’t anything really there. And all the inner turmoil the characters were feeling about their jobs and everything was also not shown in depth and was only mentioned every now and then when their relationship was going through a rough bit. 
• And I didn’t like the time skips and miscommunication at all. I just wish there was more development for their actual relationship and dynamic. I feel like they hardly know each other, despite them making off hand comments about habits that they’ve noticed about the other that were never actually shown in the book. 
• I liked the end however, when their relationship is more communicative and they actually seem to care about each other rather than just sex and all that weird possessive shit Pyro had. I wish their relationship had been more like that throughout the whole book, or at least with some kind of banter and something actually interesting and entertaining about them being together. 
• So I liked the overall premise though it also wasn’t developed that much (and I fucking love the book cover) and I liked a few bits in between and the end. It was just a bit disappointing. The writing was good though I noticed a few mistakes (and the font size kept changing??) and I was engaged for most of it so it wasn’t terrible or anything. Just disappointing.