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A review by hummelhimmel
Coffee Cake by Michaela Grey
1.0
Stopped reading after chapter seven.
I was so exited to have an asexual MC and a story about finding and navigating a relationship. I wanted to read about the ups and downs, the doubts, the discovering about what everyone is comfortable with...but there is none of that. They get together in (approximately) chapter three and before that, we have the one paragraph (that is also on the blurb) about Bran's doubts. That's it. There is no tension at all. They both fall in love with each other at first sight and as soon as Malachi makes a move on Bran, *poof* they are now boyfriends and everthing goes smothly, immediately.
I continued reading past that because I waited for the (hopefully) exiting story about Mal's accidents and I thought, okay maybe I understood the premis wrong. Maybe this is not supposed to be focused on the ups and downs of an asexual relationship but on a thriller-like plot. So I read a few chapters about how perfect their relationship is and finally something happens. But it just gets worse from this point. The story feels so constructed, so unnatural. I couldn't empathize with any of the characters enough to care what happend to them. I don't even want to know who wants to murder a college student. So I stopped.
TL;DR: Characters and story are boring, the writing feels flat and maybe I've had too high hopes for this book. They were crushed. I seriously regret spending money on this book.
I was so exited to have an asexual MC and a story about finding and navigating a relationship. I wanted to read about the ups and downs, the doubts, the discovering about what everyone is comfortable with...but there is none of that. They get together in (approximately) chapter three and before that, we have the one paragraph (that is also on the blurb) about Bran's doubts. That's it. There is no tension at all. They both fall in love with each other at first sight and as soon as Malachi makes a move on Bran, *poof* they are now boyfriends and everthing goes smothly, immediately.
I continued reading past that because I waited for the (hopefully) exiting story about Mal's accidents and I thought, okay maybe I understood the premis wrong. Maybe this is not supposed to be focused on the ups and downs of an asexual relationship but on a thriller-like plot. So I read a few chapters about how perfect their relationship is and finally something happens. But it just gets worse from this point. The story feels so constructed, so unnatural. I couldn't empathize with any of the characters enough to care what happend to them. I don't even want to know who wants to murder a college student. So I stopped.
TL;DR: Characters and story are boring, the writing feels flat and maybe I've had too high hopes for this book. They were crushed. I seriously regret spending money on this book.