(view spoiler)[The author used r#pe as a plot device and made it seem like the most harmless thing. The main character is violated and yet the author (view spoiler)[The author used r#pe as a plot device and made it seem like the most harmless thing. The main character is violated and yet the author brushes over and makes the guy who "saved her" seem like a hero when he legitimately said that he wouldn't care if the main character was r#ped before this event and even went so far as to leaving the house so the character would be "helpless". Also, the main female character wore a n#zi costume!!!! I almost didn't even notice but WHAT THE HELL. HOW IS THAT OKAY IN ANY CONTEXT? (hide spoiler)]
This series is NOTHING like the anime. I wanted to find out how it ended since the anime was an open end, but I will not be reading this problematic series any further.
This was the most boring book I’ve ever read. I hate dnf’ing books but I went far enough to know that this is irredeemable. I thought I would love thiThis was the most boring book I’ve ever read. I hate dnf’ing books but I went far enough to know that this is irredeemable. I thought I would love this because the premise sounds interesting but the writing was so bland and the book as a whole was too. I just couldn’t push through unfortunately. I do not recommend it.
Technically this is a dnf but I'm just going to rate it anyway because it was not good whatsoever. I bought this at a thrift store and I oDNF @ PG 53
Technically this is a dnf but I'm just going to rate it anyway because it was not good whatsoever. I bought this at a thrift store and I only read the first poem called "the rose." I thought it was good and decided to buy it, turns out that's someone else's work and this is just not my cup of tea whatsoever. This just reads like poems on Tumblr, and not even good ones at that. It was so cliche and I had no clue this book was going to be explicit. Anyways, I do not reccomend.
Come Again is supposedly about a woman who loses her husband who she is madly in love with. She accidentally [image]
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Come Again is supposedly about a woman who loses her husband who she is madly in love with. She accidentally goes back in time, and has to make her husband fall in love with her again, while also trying to save his life from a tumour growing in his brain. The key word is "supposedly," because truthfully, the synopsis only describes about 10% of the book and the events within this section are much different than what we expect to conspire. I would like to say that I at least enjoyed this 10% of the book, but then I'd be lying.
There’s random chunks of information EVERYWHERE, and there’s so many character’s and all of them have a super complex background that takes up like three pages. I love getting to know characters, BUT THEY ARE LITERALLY IN THE BOOK FOR 2 1/2 PAGES, WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM? And holy, how, HOW, can these characters still manage to be SO one dimensional when all of this information is given?
In the book, there’s a part where Kate insults her husbands book (he's an author) and says the reason it sucks is because it has no meaning or plot, and in that moment, I just thought, “wow, maybe this book is aware that the exact same thing is happening here.” BECAUSE IT IS. THERE IS NO PLOT OR MEANING, ONE SECOND THERE'S THE RUSSIAN MAFIA, THEN THERE'S SOME DUDE WHO'S SUPPOSEDLY IN LOVE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER (I did not sign up for a love triangle) AND THEN THERE'S A BUNCH OF RANDOM CHARACTERS THAT DO NOT EFFECT THE PLOT NOR CHARACTERS IN ANY WAY.
In the beginning, I felt this was a spy novel, in the middle, I thought it might be a badly written romance, but in the end, I realized this was just a mess.
I can’t even start to talk about part 3 of this book because I don’t think I’ve ever read anything messier, and let me remind you that I began writing when I was 12, so I’ve read a lot of terrible plotless stuff, but this definitely took the cake.
I hate writing negative reviews because I know authors pour their souls into their work, but I really feel this needs to be revised WAY more and some irrelevant parts really need to be cut down (70% of this book is info dumps that the reader doesn't need). Aspects need to be more subtle, I knew what the end result would be 20% into the novel which is never a good sign, and foreshadowing should definitely be used. The writing is not like that of a novel. I LOVE descriptions, they really help me dive deeper into the book, and I feel like a movie is playing in my mind as I read, but the descriptions were so plain and boring, I felt as if I were reading a text book, and the movie in my head was non-existent.
I also don’t think this should be branded to be a romance, but rather, a general fiction because nothing about this book is romance. Seriously, I do not know what was happening. I will not mention anything here because I don’t want to spoil anything, but MANY aspects of the non-existent “romance” (and I mean this quite literally, it was non-existent) was rushed and it was so painfully obvious.
I did like the concept, though I didn’t like how it was executed, but it was still a cool idea and that’s why I requested this book from netgalley in the first place. It's just that I was not given what was promised in the synopsis, and this book felt like it was struggling to find a genre it could conform to.
After this book, I am officially taking a break from romance books (though as I said previously, I wouldn't classify this as a romance). Well, technically, after I finish reading Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer (I can’t resist). Any recommendations for other genres (I'll read anything as long as it's interesting) are welcomed!
I tried. I really tried. But I just can't finish this. I might return to it in the future since I have the series at home, but for now, I'm going to dI tried. I really tried. But I just can't finish this. I might return to it in the future since I have the series at home, but for now, I'm going to dnf it.
UPDATE: I'm not returning to this again. It was terrible and I cringed so many times from both the bad writing and pile atop of pile of cliches.
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