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TW - Racism
When I (painfully) tried to read this book, I was in a GR-annoys-me phase (you know what I mean), and didn't get to post a ranty DNF review because 1)not worth my time and 2)well, NOT WORTH MY TIME. It was the second book from P.C. Cast I tried to read and... Well, I never managed to reach 10%? Because what the fuck is this writing? Really?
ANYWAY. I would have probably forgotten this book even existed if not for seeing it on the NY Times list. Not that it would surprise me that much, given that Red Queen made it its home and you all know what I think about Mare fucking Barrows and her woman hate. But then I read reviews about Moon Chosen and... this racist shit is not acceptable, guys. In addition for being a terribly written novel taking place in a poorly crafted 'world-building' with a TSTL heroine whose actions make no sense, it had to include blackfaces and negative portrayal of dark-skinned and biracial characters? Like??? In what world??
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I strongly invite you to read Paige's and AJ's reviews if you want to know more about it *shivers*
As for me, I won't try again to read anything by P.C. Cast. There's just not enough reading time in my life to waste it reading terrible books.
UPDATE : Because it seems that Nevernight wasn't shitty enough as it was, it also shows problematic rep for Maori. Please read Anjulie's br[image]
UPDATE : Because it seems that Nevernight wasn't shitty enough as it was, it also shows problematic rep for Maori. Please read Anjulie's brilliant post about it.
MY EYES, O, MY EYES! O, gentlefriends, you may not approve of my decision to rate Nevernight with a severe and lonely star given the fact that I failed to finish it. But I tried, O, gentlefriends, trust me, I tried, yet completing the task of reading all 18,695 pages of this wonder-
There are only 448 pages...
Oh, FUCK OFF, the cat "who is not a cat" (why thank you I KNOW you told me one billion times already - go haunt someone else's shadow, watch over another balcony with your not-eyes would you even though I don't even want to know how THAT bloody works)
Truth is, O, gentlefriends, I'm taking my life back. The 42% I read were painfully indigestible and I am very sorry if I offend 99% of my friends who love Jay Kristoff's writing but I cannot do this. I CANNOT.
1) The metaphors and similes
First, I don't like them as a whole. While I do believe that they can add a poetic touch to a novel, if I start highlighting them, it either means that :
a) they're overused ; b) they don't make any kind of sense ; c) they make me forget the story to focus on the prose, as if the writer was tapping me on the shoulder in a "I am so clever, am I not?" fashion.
Some of them made me roll my eyes.
"Mia caught her temper by the collar, gave it a good hard shake. Clearing her throat, she brushed her crooked fringe from her eyes."
"Mia sighed. Took her temper by the earlobe and pulled it to heel."
Others earned a well-deserved WTF?!
"Tric gave another half-hearted stab, but the beast had forgotten its quarry entirely, great eyes rolling as it flipped over and over, dragging its bulk back below the sand, howling like a dog who's just returned home from a hard turn's work to find another hound in his kennel, smoking his cigarillos and in bed with his wife."
O_o
"They're led by a dozen camels, Tric. A noseless dog could follow this trail of shit in the middle of truedark. If they suddenly start trekking faster than a forty-a-turn smoker with an armload of drunken prostitutes, I think we can find them again."
????!?!!
2) Heavy wordiness and other useless descriptions
This is a matter of taste, alright? But I can't do this? Not willingly, at least? Look, I graduated in French Literature and hence have had my fair share of wordy books for the sake of being wordy. After five years, I've come to the conclusion that this overwritten and purple writing style does not suit me. Words are meant to carry the story, and not to prove how clever and well-read the author is. Again, in my opinion anyway.
"She introduced her boot to his partner's groin, kicking him hard enough to cripple his unborn children."
BECAUSE THAT'S A THING.
Nope. That's a commonplace.
I tend to find commonplaces useless.
"The horizon was crusted like a beggar's lips, scoured by winds laden with voices just beyond hearing. The second sun kissing the horizon was usually the sign for Itreya's brutal winters to begin, but out there, the heat was still blistering."
Many of you might adore this writing. I do not. Oh, and no, before some gentle soul implies it, it is not because I'm "used to YA" or "unable to 'get it'". As I said, I can enjoy classics. Just not the ones that make me want to pull my hair out.
3) There are footnotes as a world-building
Call it as you want, when an author uses LONG footnotes to narrate parts of the world-building, it seems like info-dumping to me. And an annoying one, at that. Honestly? I stopped reading them after two chapters : I had a hard time connecting with the story already, and would have DNFed Nevernight way faster if I had stopped every few pages to read these damn footnotes. More generally, I find it lazy to use footnotes when these legends could have been incorporated into the main story.
There's also a character who speaks like a Shakespeare's lad, but at this point, I'm not even counting anymore.
As much as I wanted to love Nevernight, whose blurb made it sound so captivating, I cannot stand this writing and it spoiled my read. If you add it to the facts that :
1) The world-building is a mash-up between the Roman Empire, the Venice Republic, Harry Potter and The Young Elites (and surely many more) ;
2) The heroine already earned her special nemesis whose only purpose seems to glare and glare and glare again ;
3) I don't care about any of the characters whatsoever (except Tric. I did like Tric) ;
4) I don't appreciate the so-called wit of that fucking cat who is not a cat (I didn't laugh ONCE, alright?) ;
5) I am BORED ;
... Well, you'll understand why Nevernight and me will part ways now, at 42%.
Mark my words, though : this will be a hit. Oh, well. On my minority shelf it goes.
Edit : Here's my romance scale, with the points that interest me (tell me if you think of something else^^)
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Edit : Here's my romance scale, with the points that interest me (tell me if you think of something else^^)
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Warning : This is a DNF review of a book I pretty much hated. As much as I would have wanted to finish it, I reached 34% and there's no redeeming this book.
Just a little over a year ago, I started reviewing books on Goodreads. I gave up on New Adult at roughly the same time. Well, more or less, and this is why : - They often romanticize unhealthy/abusive relationships and are full of sexist tropes. - Honestly, most of them aren't well-written. - They rely on unrealistic and over the top drama.
So, yes. A few of them are good, and when I stumbled across The Air He Breathes, I decided to try it because a) Did you see the ridiculously high rating? b) It was part of the Romance Finalists in the Goodreads Choice Awards and c) It was a freebie. That blurb, though. I'm not gonna lie, it screamed cheap NA to me, but I know I can be judgmental towards blurbs so I didn't listen to my instincts.
Verdict : I should have trusted my guts, because this book is TERRIBLE, and if I usually understand why people love books I personally hate, I just can't here. Poorly written, following a ridiculous storyline filled with clichés and stereotypes & punctuated by cringing dialogues.
This leads me to : WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ?
The story starts with the two main characters relating the deaths of their loved-ones. Four, to be exact, because life is a bitch in NA, you know. What better way to picture characters who are BROKEN than let them shattered by the deaths of their respective significant others? Oh, I know : add a child's death (because tears. Tears are always good for sells) and a father's death, too, just for the sake of having the female-lead say things like,
"Mama became a whore after Dad died. (...) There weren't many other ways to put it other than that."
I personally could find other ways to say that your mother dates a lot, but hey, maybe that's just me. Don't be too worried though! She's sure her mum never cheated on her father before his death, because "when he'd go off to work at the crack of dawn, she would have his breakfast and lunch packed with snacks".
So, just tell me if I misunderstood, girl, but you're either a whore or a housewife. Nice. (3%, and I already knew our relationship wouldn't be easy, UGH)
But moving on.
Because with four deaths we didn't reach the end of our NA drama feast (WOOT!), Liz hits a dog with her car. And then you think, she is a decent human being, I guess? She's going to take care of him, surely? Yes she does, but before checking on the poor dog LYING ON THE GROUND, she takes the time to a) stare fixedly into the eyes of the owner that "match the shadows of the sky right before a thunderstorm" (whatever that means), b) notice his clothes, his headphones, his muscular arms, his fucking (absence of) SHOES, all of this before looking at the poor dog LYING ON THE GROUND. I mean, okay. Psycho much? Unsurprisingly Tristan (of course he's our love interest!) is pretty pissed and sort of yell at her right away.
About this : the only criticism I've read about this book is the way Tristan acts when they meet. Let me get this straight : I don't condone any kind of violence, even verbal, BUT SHE JUST HIT HIS DOG WITH HER CAR AND IS STARING AT HIM LIKE A DROOLING FANGIRL. Trust me, I would be beyond pissed if someone hit my dog, and I'm not a yelling kind of person.
But moving on.
That's when I realized that this kind of book turned me into a psycho : they're at the vet, and kind of bicker all the way - not in a love/hate banter fashion, mind you, but more like this :
"Are you always... always..." "Always what? Spit it out! Use words!" he ordered.
So charming, right?
So, they're at the vet. Poor dog is healed. And then, there's this (Liz is describing):
"He lost himself in his emotions, and when he exhaled, he began to sob uncontrollably. He wailed, his tears harsh, raw, and painful."
I laughed at that. I'm a terrible human being.
But moving on.
Because a NA wouldn't be a NA without some kind of woman hating, Liz encounters her old neighbors who - OF COURSE - are the perfect stereotypes of noisy, mean and gossip women. Of course Liz hates every second of their conversation. They complain about the poor state of her yard and say stuff like this : "After Stephen died, you left so fast that I wasn't able to make you any comfort food, so now I was finally able to make you this meatloaf to help you mourn" or this : "But, just to be clear, Emma [her little daughter] is not suffering from depression, is she? I hear that can be quite contagious with other kids." Because women are all kinds of stupid aren't they? ARGG.
Oh, by the way, thanks for the *discreet* info-dumping beautifully hidden in the dialogues. *snorts*
Speaking of women, let's talk about her best friend, okay? See, I'm always happy when authors picture women who have an active sex-life without slut-shaming them, so at first I thought, hey, good. I was a fool. There's a stereotype I hate almost as much : the crazy, over-the-top best-friend whose sex-life is never directly condemned but discreetly mocked.
Meet Faye. Faye is happy.
"[she] snuggled her head against my breasts, as if they were her pillow."
Faye is 27.
Faye doesn't know that a (bad) joke is always better told only once.
"Or, you could fire Sam," Faye offered. "He already has another part-time job! Plus, he's kind of creepy." "I can hear you," Sam said, shyly." (she's going to make that joke third times)
Faye has no filters.
"What do you mean you're trying to get laid?" I gasped. "Faye, are you having sex right now?" (...) "Well, if you mean is there a penis currently sitting in my vagina, then yes. I guess you could semi call that sex." "Oh my God, Faye! Why the hell would you answer the phone?!" "Um, because chicks before dicks? Like, literally." She laughed. I gagged."
Let's pay a little attention at what we're being sold, okay? Faye, the sexually active best-friend, is annoying and unbearable. She talks (loudly) about Liz's "aging" vagina while Liz is serving customers at the restaurant. She visits at night with friends after Liz explicitly texted her that she was fine (don't mind me on this, apparently that's okay - I'm certainly awkward to find that annoying). Truth is, it's sneaky, but I felt as if this ridiculous stereotype of a woman's purpose was to make us despise her, and with her, women who date (the mother is a whore, remember?).
This is what the book is telling us (in my opinion) : So, women, you want to have a sex-life? Don't you see how ridiculous you would be?
Fuck you, book.
But moving on.
I'm sure that by this point you're dying to know how the romance between our two *insert gagging emoji* broken souls will unfold.
Well, you know, the usual :
fighting ► forced kiss ► OMG this is HAWT! ► pushing away.
TRIGGER WARNING : RAPE, swearing & violence in general
► One thing I'm certain of is that this book isn't a romance. No. It's a sickening portra[image]
TRIGGER WARNING : RAPE, swearing & violence in general
► One thing I'm certain of is that this book isn't a romance. No. It's a sickening portray of a relationship where abuse in all its forms is romanticized, including rape.
What kind of abuse? Please chose! Be my guest! Rape? Physical violence? Psychological harassment? Just fucking chose because it contains all those and more.
➸ As I write, Once and Always has an average rating of 4.22 here on GR, with 7,149 people who think that it's a romance worthy of 5 stars. You can't imagine how much this fact scares me and I'll try to explain why in this review.
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This is going to be quick : I will spare you the plot which turns rounds and rounds in circles endlessly, the characters not willing to quit making idiotic decisions because really, it's not even the matter at hand. Just know that this story is filled with more dumb twists and misunderstanding nonsense than a vaudeville show. To sum up, a young American woman, Victoria, arrives in England shortly after her parents' death to be taken care of by Charles Fielding, a lifelong acquaintance of her mother. But the old Duke has an hidden purpose : to marry her with his illegitimate son, Jason. What interests us here is the relationship between the two 'lovebirds' (throughout this review, you can safely take my quotations marks as sarcasm).
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From their first meeting, Jason keeps threatening Victoria each time he thinks that she is going to go against his wishes, invariably congratulating her by a "Good Girl" if she ends agreeing with him. No matter how perfect she is portrayed to be, how interested he is supposed to be in her 'refreshing' behavior, it remains that his behavior shows something else entirely.
● She's sick? Oh, poor thing, he's going to give her some med. Nice, you say?
"Drink it," he said calmly, "or I'll pour it down your throat"
● The guy has really a way around words. Not conviced?
"I'd like to wring your neck," Jason said, half-seriously, but he grasped her arm as she asked.
I suppose that I should be happy to know that he doesn't fully means that now should I?
➸ I could go on and on and on about his propensity to be a bully, but perhaps the most sickening fact in all that is that we only began to scrape the surface of the issue. Just take a look at his reaction the day after their wedding :
"Jason stood in the gaping hole of the doorway, his face white with rage, his voice hissing between his teeth. "Don't you ever bare a door to me again as long as you live," he snarled. "And don't ever threaten me with divorce again! This house is my property, under the law, just as you are my property. Do you understand me?" Victoria nodded jerkily, mentally recoiling from the blinding violence flashing in his eyes. He turned his heel and stalked out of the room, leaving her shaking with fear"
Not to mention that he just crashed the door to come in. More generally, we are witnesses to so many scenes where he commits acts of violence against her that it doesn't comes as a surprise that she is scared to death by him. The fact that this behavior can be identified as expressions of passion sickens and infuriates me. No man (or woman, for that matter) has the right to resort to harassment in order to obtain someone's affection. The concept itself is so OFFENSIVE that it makes me want to hurl.
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From his earlier behavior, you might expect that he doesn't improve when it comes to the sexual development of their relationship. Sadly, you wouldn't be wrong. Basically, he physically forces her to give him their first two kisses.
Kiss #1
"This is what would happen!" he snapped suddenly, and his mouth crushed hers in a fierce, brutal kiss that was meant to punish and humiliate her. (...) Her struggle only seemed to make him angrier, and the kiss more painful. (...) Victoria saw something primitive and terrifying flare in his eyes as his hands tightened on her arms. She jerked back, a scream rising in her throat, but his lips covered hers, stifling her voice with a demanding insistence that stunned her into immobility."
But surely after this kiss she has to KNOW that the guy is a violent asshole, right? RIGHT? Of course not, what do you think? She excuses him, fucking daydreams about it (because that was so passionate you know) and even more, feels GUILTY for it, first because she thinks that it's a normal behavior to have (the girl is so naive that's not even funny) and then because she is afraid that HE will think less of her because she LET him kissing her. I mean for fuck sake! It's obvious from the start that she never AGREED to this kiss, and the way the woman is shamed for HIS action shows an undercurrent of blind ill nonsense that maddened me. So she says nothing, because "perhaps she would only look a fool if she made an issues of it". So, what does he do? Why, he does it again of course!
Kiss #2
"A harsh laugh escaped him. "I like you too damned much!" he whispered bitterly, then pulled her head down and captured her lips in a demanding, scalding kiss that took everything and gave nothing in return. Victoria struggled in appalled, frightened earnest, bracing her hands on either side of him and shoving hard, trying to free her mouth from his. Jason swiftly plunged his fingers into the thick hair at her nape and twisted hard. "Don't struggle!" he said through clenched teeth, "you're hurting me." "You're hurting me, Victoria chocked, her lips less than an inch from his.
Now tell me at what fucking moment I am supposed to swoon. Just fucking TELL ME. Am I supposed to be aroused after this? Am I supposed to root for them? Tell me for fuck sake! I'm lost! Because the only emotions that got through me were disgust and rage. But don't fucking worry, because after THAT kiss, she says, 2 pages later, "Perhaps he would despise her for letting him kiss her". I'm sorry WHAT? What in the world is that supposed to mean? He FORCED you!
Sadly, things don't stop here. You know how much I despise when rape is used as a plot device or background to make a girl in need of 'fixing'. I hate that. But it's nothing, I say NOTHING, in comparison. Jason actually RAPES her on their wedding day. She is terrified because she's a virgin, she says NO, and he fucking rapes her. I don't care if they made a 'bargain' to give him a son, she had no idea what that meant, and even if she had, it's a rape nonetheless.
[they are fighting before] "Visions of blood and terrible pain roared through Victoria, adding their horror to the nausea the wine was causing. "I don't want to!" she cried piteously. "We made a bargain, and as long as we're married, you'll keep it," he whispered as he pried her stiff thighs apart. Victoria whimpered as his rigid manhood probed boldly at her, but somewhere in the depths of her stricken mind, she knew he was right about the bargain and she stopped fighting him(*). "Relax," he warned bitterly in the darkness above her, "I may not be as considerate as your dear Andrew, but I don't want to hurt you." His vicious mention of Andrew at a time like this cut her to the heart, and her anguish erupted in a scream of pain as Jason rammed into her. Her body writhed beneath his, and tears poured from her eyes in hot, humiliated streaks as her husband used her without kindness or caring."
(*) Is that meant to make it okay? I don't care if she stops fighting, she is obviously forced into this, so yes, that's a rape. The fact that he doesn't know that she's a virgin (don't get me started about their ridiculous misunderstandings) doesn't make it okay either. Just remember that the day after, when she comes to ask for a divorce, he threatens her.
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What you need to know is that despite her naive personality and her propensity to excuse Jason for his behavior, Victoria sometimes realizes that it's not normal and that she deserves better. Each time it happens, there is someone to tell her that she's wrong and that she must give him time to open to her. Excuse me but that's fucking BULLSHIT. I swear, each time I heard the old Charles Fielding or the Captain reassuring her and telling her that she had to be patient, I wanted to throw up. I think that it's no need to prove further that Jason is a violent and dangerous asshole. So, no, I certainly don't want to read things like this :
"You're wrong," Captain Farrell said with gentle finality [that's after the rape]. "Jason has needed a woman like you since the day he was born. He needs you to heal wounds that are deep, to teach how to let himself love and be loved in return. If you knew more about him, you'd understand why I said it"
Excuse me what? She awes him NOTHING. It follows then a description of all the hardships Jason had to face in his past but you know what? I DON'T FUCKING CARE, because it excuses nothing. It doesn't make it okay. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE. I won't endorse that wicked belief that condones violence under the pretext of a hard life.
A few minutes later this gentle soul tells her that she should have sex with her husband to resolve their wedding issues because that's what wives do (I recall : he raped her). I can't fathom HOW exactly it's supposed to help her.
More generally, in this book the women are either portrayed as sluts who throw themselves at Jason, greedy bitches who only want to take advantage of his wealth or as well, Victoria, pure and perfect virgin who knows everything from shooting to playing piano. Just give me a break.
Not to mention that by all appearances Jason keeps his mistress while married, blaming Victoria because hey! He has needs (do I need to remind you that he raped her?). Yeah, he's class like that.
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As I said at the beginning of this review, this is not a romance, and the only satisfying way it could have ended would have been everything but a HEA. Sadly, as you might expect, they have their HEA. I apologize for the length of this review but it felt important to me to explain exactly why I'm giving it 1 star and why I'm appalled that this book is considered as a great romance by many readers. Never, ever let someone tell you - or even imply - that violence is forgivable. It isn't.
For real, this book takes the crappy romance at a whole new level - I could be almost bewildered if I wasn't so pissed. You know what? I read the full book and I don't get it. I might write a full review when I calm down. Someday. In the meantime, I must introduce some facts to provide further information to explain my rating, because I do realize that I'm in a huge minority here.
Before I start, what you need to know is the fact that Indy knows Lee from her childhood and loved him almost always since, except for the 10 previous years. Why is it important? Why, because it's used as the perfect excuse to explain that there isn't ANY character development and/or relationship growth.
➊ Controlling asshole : Okay OKAY I get it, I get it. Here's a handsome wild man, a tad mysterious, drop-dead sexy, who Indy loves since she's 5, who carries a gun and is protective, who's...
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WHATEVER. I don't care about all these wonderful qualities, because :
1) He is repeatedly violent in his moves : he pushes her, catches her wrist, "hook [her] around the back of the neck with enough force to send [her] slamming into him". Wow, how romantic.
2) He wants to control every one of her actions, starting with their relationship : "This is happening between you and me," he threatened." Indeed Indy repeats several times that she is SCARED by him and his controlling behavior. What bothered me the most is the fact that the TSTL behavior of the heroine is used as an EXCUSE to explain Lee's reactions and to make the reader believe that it's okay. Nope. It's not okay to handcuff your girlfriend at the bed because you don't want her to go out. And it's certainly not okay to FORBID your girlfriend to wear what she wants to wear. Oh, but don't worry, Lee has an asshole as a friend who agrees with him.
"For what it's worth, I'm with Lee. If you were my woman, there's no fuckin' way I'd let you out of the house wearin' that."
YOU DON'T SAY?!
3) He is a jealous prick. Now, a little jealousy can be great, but come on. Lee overreacts completely when Indy talks to another guy.
➋ TSTL heroine : basically, Indy is the stupid chick in scary movie. Yeah, you got it, the one we can't help but yell at to STAY IN THE FUCKING HOUSE! To sum up, she is kidnapped 3 times, goes out every time someone tells her to stay hidden despite the really bad guys who constantly shot at her, decides to investigate while she obviously shouldn't (plus, she gives her real name to every dubious person she meets : who does that??). I know some readers found her kick-ass. I'm sorry but this girl? She isn't badass. No. When I think of her, here's how I picture Indy :
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What? She acts like she's 6 while she's 30.
Moreover, although in her inner monologues she complains about Lee's controlling behavior, she always gave in. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
PS: I almost forgot to say that she is so fucking SPECIAL that she has 3 guys fighting for her. Yep. 3.
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Do you want to learn a secret? I'm such a liar : a year ago I've sworn to myself that I'll finish this [insert sarcasm here] wonderful piece of a book.
So, 2014 Anna, I solemnly declare that Reed and what's-her-name will never see me again. #SorryNotSorry.
But as I just came back from vacations and therefore am in a great mood, I'm still going to explain why. You never read this book? Lucky you! Here's what you missed :
① A stupid heroine who never, ever takes a hint. That's simple, she's never surprised by anything and I got the impression that I spent my time frowning at any event while she was all, "whatever". And above that, she has NO self-preservation instinct. Like, at all.
✔ She meets some guy who's continually glaring at her for no reasons? Whatever, he's hot.
✔ The glaring sub-mentioned guy appears to have a (very) strong suggestive power and she witnesses him controlling people with a glance? Whatever, he's hot, I said.
✔ Not only she doesn't run away from him but she seeks guidance from him.
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The guy obviously means trouble but hey, why don't ask him why you've got nightmares? Because this strange and menacing guy whom you don't even know is OBVIOUSLY the best suited to answer you. OF COURSE. UGH. Please. Go buy some brain or something.
② A controlling asshole as love-interest #1. So, Reed. I didn't reach the part where his role becomes crystal clear (but I'm sure that his behavior is explained, and let me tell you, I don't fucking care if he has excuses). The only things that I do know are :
✔ He spends his time glaring at her and menacing her and her friend.
✔ He uses weird shark metaphors to explain why she's in danger (for a page long) but hey, that's okay! She still wants to touch his fucking cheek after that so you know, I must be mean.
► I will never EVER be attracted by a male-lead who says things like (chapter 9, just before I stopped) : "...Now explain what happened before I lose my temper.”
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OR WHAT? What will happen, you asshole? Perhaps I didn't see enough of him but I hated what I saw : an over-protective, controlling and yes, threatening guy I want to slap. I. CAN'T.
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③ An unintelligible soulmate as love-interest #2. Now, I already said that I've nothing against dialects and accents but Russel was so exhausting to follow, I can't even.
"Whaddaya mean? (...) I even get that y'all were raised a bit differently up here (...) Now, I don't know how much help I can give ya. I'm not quite equipped for what's bein' thrown at me. But, I'm yer friend, and I'll do what I can and maybe ... when yer ready, ya can tell me whatcha know."
Oh. My. God. I'm tired guy, I'm tired. God, even his text messages annoyed me : "EG Red! That's epic meet u @ the field 2nite. UR 2G2BT" Just STOP. Please?
④ An awful and repetitive writing. The fact is, I don't like when authors imply that we readers are dumb, and that's how I felt when reading inescapable.
Example? Think, think, THINK.
"If I manage to get lost here, then I don't deserve the academic scholarchip (...), I THINK TO MYSELF." : first occurrence, the beginning of the sentence is written in italics so I got it, italics = think to myself.
10 lines after...
"Don't stress, I THINK TO MYSELF".
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I had understood the first time, thank you very much. Apparently I shouldn't have, because she keeps saying this over and over again.
After the best book of the year, let me introduce you my worst book of the year. Warning : This review is basically a big spoiler. So if you want to rAfter the best book of the year, let me introduce you my worst book of the year. Warning : This review is basically a big spoiler. So if you want to read the book, just don't read this.
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Even the jerks need their ad, don't they? Or not really, okay. But I wanted to translate this "review" so here we go. Because this Jack Carter here? He could be the perfect fit for a chapter named "what-kind-of-boy-I-don't-want-my-daughter/friend/sister-date-like-ever"
Let's sum-up, shall we? - He charms the heroine-I-forgot-the-name with lame jokes and improper comments. Jack, that's gross - He makes her feel guilty when she's being unconfident. - He cheats on her. Oh, do I need to spell it? H.E C.H.E.A.T.S O.N H.E.R You f*cking jerk! (sorry) - He doesn't know what condoms are. When he cheats on his girlfriend anyway. - The girl with whom he cheats gets pregnant. - Obviously, he decides to marry that girl, because, I'm kind of quoting here : "I hate that girl but as she's pregnant I must marry her - that way my child will be so lucky to live with parents who loathe each others. Yay!" You are stupid, Jack. That's lame - He discovers that the pregnancy was fake and meets the heroine (who, I must say, doesn't act like a moron for the very first time). She asks him to find a way to make amends. - His way? He doesn't contact her during 6 months.
Oh, but don't freak out! She forgives him when he shows up with flowers. What am I saying? She asks him to forgive her (at this point, I didn't even try to understand these characters).
So, JACK : [image]
Brrr. Way to violent for me. It was my I don't recommend book of the year.
Wow. Ce livre regroupe juste tout ce que je ne supporte pas dans le NA. Et plus encore. Le héros, déjà : What. A. Control. Freak. Jackass.
L'histoire Wow. Ce livre regroupe juste tout ce que je ne supporte pas dans le NA. Et plus encore. Le héros, déjà : What. A. Control. Freak. Jackass.
L'histoire est complètement invraisemblable - pour lire jusqu'au bout, je me suis mis des œillères en me persuadant que je lisais de la fantasy - alors que ce n'est définitivement pas de la fantasy. Tellement invraisemblable que parfois je n'ai même pas compris ce qui se passait. OK, je lis en anglais, mais WTF?!? Première fois que je suis obligée de relire un passage en fronçant les sourcils à la recherche du sens caché - pour me rendre compte qu'il n'y en a pas.
Bref. Super déçue par Rachel Van Dyken, de qui j'avais adoré "Ruin" - Ah, Wes ♥. J'avais lu quelque part que ses livres étaient irréguliers, et woohoo! Je confirme. Même si celui-ci est super bien noté sur Goodreads. Seriously??
Pour résumer, Tracey, l'héroïne, a gagné à la loterie son inscription dans une université ultra select, The Elite. Quand elle arrive, le héros lui dit ça :
"We are untouchable. If you as much as sneeze in our direction, if you as much breathe the same air in my atmosphere, I will make our life hell."
OK. SURE. **roll eyes** Et à partir de là, tout devient juste complètement incroyable, et pas dans le bon sens du terme.
(view spoiler)[ Il s'avère que le Jackass - oui, Nixon, le héros - est un chef de la mafia et ne fait ça que pour la protéger CAR elle n'est autre que la petite fille d'un chef de la mafia et que les autres - bad guyyyys - ne doivent pas savoir qui elle est. (hide spoiler)]
OK. Je vais m'arrêter là, je préfère en rire que m'en agacer. Le héros est insupportable, l'héroïne n'a aucune volonté,(view spoiler)[ le tout est enrobé de pseudo descriptions du monde de la mafia (hide spoiler)] et comme si c'était pas déjà assez mauvais, on nous pond le début d'un triangle amoureux à la fin : Parce qu'il y a une suite!!!! Ouais. Bah ce sera sans moi :D
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