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A review by abartley73
Stubborn Love by Wendy Owens
3.0
I've been looking for a good NA book, and this definitely was not it. It seems like all NA books are the same. Girl suffers a trauma in her life, boy swoops in to save her. The end.
I will say the trauma she went through in this book was a bit more creative, and kind of shocking. It was nice seeing an author actually portray a typical, realistic reaction to something that happened to a character. Not some off the wall reaction that makes no sense. With that being said, some of the other reactions were very unrealistic.
Maybe I'm too logical when I read books. But to me, a guy that supposedly loves you would probably be more brutal to someone that hits you as opposed to someone that doesn't. Not when it comes to Colin, though. I don't want to say much more than that to avoid spoilers, but Colin's character didn't make any sense at times. Clementine was an okay protagonist, but she wasn't even close to being memorable.
The book itself wasn't memorable either, except for the random ass sex scene that came out of left field. I'm still laughing about it. These two denied their attraction for each other and neither one of them wanted to be with anyone, and then out of nowhere, "Let's have sex." I'm not really interested in reading sex scenes in books, especially ones that are unneeded. And this one was definitely a scene that the author randomly throws in there like, "SURPRISE! SEX!"
Overall, this book is just a typical NA. It wasn't bad enough to DNF, but it doesn't have the wow factor. I won't be reading anything else by this author because I prefer books with excitement. Not just a typical 3 star book.
I will say the trauma she went through in this book was a bit more creative, and kind of shocking. It was nice seeing an author actually portray a typical, realistic reaction to something that happened to a character. Not some off the wall reaction that makes no sense. With that being said, some of the other reactions were very unrealistic.
Maybe I'm too logical when I read books. But to me, a guy that supposedly loves you would probably be more brutal to someone that hits you as opposed to someone that doesn't. Not when it comes to Colin, though. I don't want to say much more than that to avoid spoilers, but Colin's character didn't make any sense at times. Clementine was an okay protagonist, but she wasn't even close to being memorable.
The book itself wasn't memorable either, except for the random ass sex scene that came out of left field. I'm still laughing about it. These two denied their attraction for each other and neither one of them wanted to be with anyone, and then out of nowhere, "Let's have sex." I'm not really interested in reading sex scenes in books, especially ones that are unneeded. And this one was definitely a scene that the author randomly throws in there like, "SURPRISE! SEX!"
Overall, this book is just a typical NA. It wasn't bad enough to DNF, but it doesn't have the wow factor. I won't be reading anything else by this author because I prefer books with excitement. Not just a typical 3 star book.