Christel Nance's Reviews > Lease on Love

** spoiler alert ** Once I got through the millennial word vomit this book spews and all of the unnecessary cursing, all I saw was an insanely selfish leading female character. She thinks so highly of herself from how hot she is to how amazing she is at her previous job. The author makes claims that she feels inadequate about herself and isn’t selfish, but her actions speak louder than words. She never considered others and took from her friends repeatedly without giving anything back in return.

Too many assumptions were made about men from male bosses always hitting on younger female employees to villainizing “nice” guys who prefer relationships to hook ups.

I also wonder if this woman is an alcoholic. She’s drinking wine every single day—even on nights where she works the next day. It was cringy.

I’m also tired of all of these rom-com novels with super fit men who never work out. And the pet names they used for each other were annoying. It was funny with the Jack-in-a-box and whatnot names, but sweat pea sounds childish. It’s literally what I call my own kids.

This book used terms like hipster and bang to an extreme. It was just as annoying as all of the millennial talk.

The ending solidified how much this woman’s character is unlikeable. Jack has a past and wasn’t ready to share it yet. But “sweet pea” took offense and threw his parents’ death in his face. She made his past all about herself because she thought she was entitled to all of his history, even if he wasn’t ready to talk about it. Why would she care that he use to be famous? Why does that affect her opinion of him so much? And why does she see that as lying? He isn’t a liar. He’s entitled to have his own past that he tells her about in his own time. She also revealed that she hadn’t told him everything about her own past either. Pot, meet kettle.

Basically she’s manipulative and self centered. She’s so much more like her dad than she wants to admit. The only thing I liked about the book is the idea of repurposing items as vases. That’s a cool idea.