A review by gemin1reader
Set On You by Amy Lea

2.0

This starts off as a fun gym-rivals to lovers story, but the FMC is so annoying - by the end of this book I wanted to throw my kindle at a wall. 

Firstly, on two separate occasions she ditches her family & friends without any warning or goodbye which is a mild annoyance from a reading point of view, but eugh. It’s also so painfully millennial in places (and I am one, but I don’t need my romcoms to have an endless stream of current cultural references). 

She then proceeds to dictate to the MMC how long it should take him to get over a very short, long-distance relationship that he explicitly states wasn’t a big deal, and remains hung up on it the whole time. Then she gets mad at him because he keeps a secret that his grandad asked him to (for context their grandparents are getting married). WORST OF ALL when she posts a photo of the two of them on Insta to finally hard launch their relationship, she gets lots of nasty comments which somehow result in her breaking up with him??? I mean honestly 🙄 and the cherry on top is that the MMC is a completely flat character - he’s attractive, helpful, kind, has a six pack and that’s essentially all we know. Not even a smidgen of anything interesting going on there.
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