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A review by emilyrainsford
Covet by Tracy Wolff
3.75
I still think this is a super fun, guilty pleasure trash series, but I admit this one was less propulsive than the first two.
I found the first one super addictive. The second I also enjoyed although I felt some things were a bit dragged out.
This one really started to put the brakes on pace-wise. The whole middle 50% felt like a bit of a drag if I'm honest. I definitely think this didn't need to be 680 pages.
I definitely got the sense at some points that, similarly to SJM, there were scenes that existed purely because the author wanted to have fun with her world, rather than being tightly plotted. It feels a bit like fan fiction of their own work.
And then there's the fact lines like this exist entirely without irony:
"His lips are moving but his words sound like I'm underwater. And that's when I realise I must have drowned in the endless depths of his oceanic eyes."
Yes seriously.
Look, with this whole series, you just have to be in the right mood and not take the whole thing too seriously. I do still find it overall really fun and I am going to read the rest of the series. But I'm just gonna take a wee break first I think!
I found the first one super addictive. The second I also enjoyed although I felt some things were a bit dragged out.
This one really started to put the brakes on pace-wise. The whole middle 50% felt like a bit of a drag if I'm honest. I definitely think this didn't need to be 680 pages.
I definitely got the sense at some points that, similarly to SJM, there were scenes that existed purely because the author wanted to have fun with her world, rather than being tightly plotted. It feels a bit like fan fiction of their own work.
And then there's the fact lines like this exist entirely without irony:
"His lips are moving but his words sound like I'm underwater. And that's when I realise I must have drowned in the endless depths of his oceanic eyes."
Yes seriously.
Look, with this whole series, you just have to be in the right mood and not take the whole thing too seriously. I do still find it overall really fun and I am going to read the rest of the series. But I'm just gonna take a wee break first I think!