The heroine peeved me off royally when she let the hero, pretty much, take the fall: (view spoiler)[Her current boyfriend (who has choked herDNF @ 36%
The heroine peeved me off royally when she let the hero, pretty much, take the fall: (view spoiler)[Her current boyfriend (who has choked her once already, and yet she hasn't split up with him because, get this; HER FAMILY WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF THEY DID) beats her again. When she's found in a beat up state with the hero, her family automatically assumes it was him, and instead of telling them that her boyfriend did it, she says 'I fell'. FFS. Then one of her brothers punches the hero. (hide spoiler)]
Sadly, I'm having to join the readers who have loved many Zapata books, but thought this one was rather meh.
Dear Aaron is almost split in two, with more than the first half told through email/text. I think I started to get fed up about half way through this way of storytelling. There was only so much of them meandering through idle chit chat I could take. That 55% consisted of them talking about their day, a bit of their past, and their likes and dislikes. Apparently the heroine was making the hero laugh a lot with her tales and jokes, but nothing was funny.
After that, it switched to action, inner monologue and first person. So it becomes apparent exactly how... wet (and not in the good way) the heroine is. She's kinda childish and very very insecure; annoyingly so. The hero's personality was neither here nor there. And I think the lack of kick-ass heroine, awesome hero combo - that Zapata has written for us before – is what led to the book's downfall. That and the lack of drama and feels along with a rushed end and a painstaking beginning. Oh and ugh, that epilogue.
In the background, there was some minor angst with family members we never met, a few friends who fell flat and came with just a pinch of personality.
Sigh, it wasn't a horrid read, and I wasn't annoyed by it, mainly because it was less than average all over. I think I could probably pick apart a bunch of other things, her boringness, constantly talking about his smile, the samey Zapata heroine.....
Genre: Young Adult/New Adult Contemporary Romance Cover: 7/10 Writing: 7/10 Heroine: 2/10 Her**ARC from Netgalley** 2.5 STARS
Scary things can be beautiful.
Genre: Young Adult/New Adult Contemporary Romance Cover: 7/10 Writing: 7/10 Heroine: 2/10 Hero: 9/10 Humour: 3/10 Hotness: 1/10 Romance: 6/10 Extra book Details: Dual POV. Stand alone.
Em has kept in touch with Eric for 3 years, separated when Eric goes to Samoa. Now, Eric is inviting her to stay at his Mom's beach condo in Florida for the entire summer.
Eric suffers from anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia... and he's been working out. But because of Ali, his high school girlfriend, he has an aversion to touch and has self-image issues.
I loved Eric, he was a great YA/NA beta hero. Sweet, shy and hunky.
Things started to go wrong with the heroine for me. It starts to become clear that she's completely and utterly obsessed with all things social media related and she's a romance junkie. I'm okay-ing the latter ;) But her obsession with it – it was unreal, annoying and irritating, for Eric as well as me. Her list of misdemeanour’s became ridiculous. Mainly, she was ignorant; of Eric, of driving, of jeopardizing her relationship by talking to another boy online, constantly.
The story was nice, sweet, fluffy, with friendship and love combined and a mix of angst. But the heroine ruined it....more
Seems like readers are either really loving it or really disliking this one. Unfortunately I didn't like it. I don't want to put you off readinDNF @ 34%
Seems like readers are either really loving it or really disliking this one. Unfortunately I didn't like it. I don't want to put you off reading it, as I can see it's really loved by most.
What I didn't like was the heroine, she made me DNF. Her inner monologue seemed immature, she was constantly the victim and seemed to play up to it, she was incredibly needy, insecure and weak.
I'm really surprised. This is nothing like the authors other book 'Beginnings' which I REALLY liked. Luckily I got this while it was a freebie....more
Cover: 8/10 Writing style: 8/10 Heroine: 6/10 Hero: 7/10 Humour: 5/10 Jealousy: 5/10 Hotness: 7/10 Romance: 7/10 Ending: 8/10 Extra book Details: Stand-alone. Cover: 8/10 Writing style: 8/10 Heroine: 6/10 Hero: 7/10 Humour: 5/10 Jealousy: 5/10 Hotness: 7/10 Romance: 7/10 Ending: 8/10 Extra book Details: Stand-alone. HEA Overall: Enjoyable but frustrating.
I hate to give this it's first 3 star rating when the few reviews (mostly from ARC readers) that are there are all 4 and 5. But I want to be honest and put my opinion across, even if there's no-one that agrees with me.
BLURB: 17 year old Toni is bullied at school because her father is the owner of a strip club, she is an outcast. After giving her virginity to her best friend David, he asks her not to tell anyone. Tipping her depression over the edge, she takes an overdose. After recovering she and her dad agree that she be home-schooled until graduation and that she may go to the College of her choosing. She decides to move far away where no-one knows her.
Years later, Toni, now a psychologist and a Catholic, finds herself in a dead end marriage, her husband doesn't seem to love her, he hasn't made love to her for over four years; his libido is shot due to the diabetes medication he takes. At confession, she speaks of her lusty desires and troubles, the priest advises her to go and see her father and make amends with him as she's only visited once in the last 10 years. And later, she gets a phone call telling her that he's suffered a stroke and is severely ill.
Returning home, she is reunited with David. David was like a son to her father, he took him in, his parents didn't look after him very well, and in turn he became her best friend and first love. David became a successful hockey player in her absence, but returned home two years ago when he got in too much trouble. Now he looks after the strip club with her father.
This all happens quickly at the beginning, and the story continues with the progression of Toni and David's relationship, dealing with her fathers illness as well as his house and strip club, stressing over her marriage and her religion.
My problems with this book were mainly with Toni. She seemed to be three different people, and there was no transaction from one to the other. First we see her as a troubled, lonely teen with bullying issues. To a Catholic, frustrated wife that wears twin sets. Then to a bossy, flirty, brawling, pole-dancing, bar tending, cami and shorts wearer. We didn't see her transform gracefully, she just 'was'. She cried too many times for my liking, she also was very touchy feely with David far too quickly. Also she would often put David down for 'his many conquests'.
We feel sorry for her husband for 76% of the book as she suddenly and early on tells David she loves him, and lies to her husband when he asks if she's been cheating on him. She tells him they kissed, but they've done much more than that. Which brings me on to her religion... It seems she only ever turned to it when she was in need of comfort or some guidance, it doesn't cross her mind when she's all but having sex with David, drinking heavily, brawling and running a strip club. Her dad might have been a strip club owner, but he was a very stereotypical version of a boss-biker-daddy. And where did this come from --> (view spoiler)[ her husband cheating on her? There were no signs that he was at all. Errr can he fake not being able to get an erection for 4 years? Not even morning wood or a semi? And why wouldn't he even have sex with her anyway? Did he actually have some morals and would only sleep with one woman at a time? There was no explanation for his lack of lust or love or his cheating, I mean, they got married, it had to be based on something. (hide spoiler)]?
Apart from ALL of this... I loved her feisty-ness and her awesome come backs, though it sometimes got a little cheesy and cliché (all lead females that do a strip/pole dance in these books, dance to 'Pour Some Sugar on Me'). I liked the current David a lot (not the past one, he was a player and hurting her by dating the girls she hated at school). The writing was good, though it felt different at the very beginning. I never got bored, it was very drama filled. There were some funny and sweet moments. There wasn't much sex, but it was very hot. So I was half enjoying at and half very frustrated through the book and for every thing I liked there was something I didn't like (eg, liked current David but not old David)....more
Cover: 7/10 Plot: Is the mob gonna get me? Writing style: 6/10 Heroine: 2/10 Hero: 7/10 Hotness: 6/10 EndingNot for me... or many others by the looks of it.
Cover: 7/10 Plot: Is the mob gonna get me? Writing style: 6/10 Heroine: 2/10 Hero: 7/10 Hotness: 6/10 Ending: 8/10 Extra book Details: Stand alone, HEA.
Looking at the reviews, there are many 4 and 5 stars, but there are quite a few 1 2 and 3 stars also, and most of them think it's just them who didn't like it. Well it's not.
Loved the beginning, it was dramatic, dark and adrenaline fuelled.
There are tons of issues in mine and the other lower star reviews... Lead female, Emma, is everyone's top annoyance. Constantly wet for Carter just by looking at him, not even by touching or dirty words. Just continuous arouse-ment whilst around him. Of course, god-forbid a female lead is sexually strong. Emma is blubbering, whiny and needy, always changing her mind. She's always assessing Carter. And we always knew what tone of voice everyone was using (107 times the word voice came up, not including the amount of times they whispered, especially Carter).
Carter was always moving her, pressing against her, touching her, pulling her about and pinning her down, it seemed like he had to, to squeeze words out of her. He was always off somewhere else, leaving Emma even though she 'had to' live with him, he was protecting her.
I did like the secondary characters. And Carter was admirable in his protectiveness over Emma. But I promise, you will not like Emma, it's the kicker, especially when 90% of the book is told in her words....more
At the beginning, i really liked the lead characters traits and they had both been sexually abused in their teens, which is different. LiErrr..... No.
At the beginning, i really liked the lead characters traits and they had both been sexually abused in their teens, which is different. Lilac doesn't really talk, is shy, a bookworm, dresses like a librarian but is incredibly pretty and sexy. Nick is a cocky Greek billionaire on campus who is fucking everything on sight to get over his ex.
Then it starts to get odd. Now I know Ms Tee is unconventional in her stories, there's never real happy happy moments or sweet romance, there's no down-right depressing moments either, there's usually some cheating, and the lead male wrongs the lead female in a bad way, there's crude descriptions and crazy ways of thinking, but that keeps it interesting and different. But this one, oh this one takes the biscuit. It all started about the 8% mark for me... When Lilac begins to have these these weird regency novel daydreams. Then their first meeting feels like it takes up 10 pages of them just looking at each other because, oddly enough, they can both communicate whole sentences with one look.
I'd really advise most of my GoodReads friends not to read this, not when Nick is still in love with his ex up until the very end, not when Nick is an ass throughout the whole book, not when Nick slams Lilac (and not in the good way, in the most unforgivable way) and breaks her heart at the very end, and not when Lilac allows him to watch another woman getting off over him. ....more
Cover: 7/10 Plot: Shall we, shan't we sexy-rocker-romance Writing style: 6/10 Heroine: 2/10 Hero: 1/10 Jealousy: 10/10 Romance: 5/10 Hotness: 5/10 Ending: 3/10 Extra book Details: First two books about the same H/h, more books tbr about another/other band members. Overall: Totally disliked the characters.
GoodReads book 'overall' rating can be totally deceiving. Firstly, if you haven't read it yet, make sure you read the bad reviews (sod it, even read the ones with spoilers, you really need to know what you're getting into) and the good reviews, if I saw the bad ones before I started this book then I would have never picked it up. GR users either hate or love this book, there is no in between, I was one of the ones that hated it, as you can see.
What I liked? The pace of the story was good, there was loads of dialogue, the scenes were varied and interesting, the rest of the band, found them much more endearing and likeable. I will have a go at book three, book two with the same H/h? No.
{VERY MILD SPOILERS COMING}
Shall I count the ways I hate it?
Of course, his past means he's become a man-whore, what guys don't? If you don't respect women, then you're hot(!) And making me jealous by shagging everything in sight, and purposely making out with every girl you lay you're eyes on in front of me. Oh and flying your 'girlfriend' in to your bed whenever you feel like an extra bang, will only make me want you more(!)
Furthermore, I never understood why Eliza was attracted to him throughout high school, when he acts like he does, it only makes him repulsive on the inside, but of course, that doesn't matter, cos he is HOT. If you're an author who's writing about a rock star, I think you really need to careful you don't write your supposed Hero as a total dick. He somewhat redeemed himself, but not enough for me.
Her father acted more of a gay best friend, never seemed protective over her.
Every guy smirks, cause Gage more than the rest, and all different types of smirks too. How many smirks? Wanna know? Oh, only 87.
All the guys who encountered her seemed to talk to her like they are all varying degrees of the same creep.
Some of the dialogue felt... off. Actually, so did some of the inner monologue:
'He was about to turn around, but surprisingly, I called his name and he stopped.' People do that????
'For the most part, we were quiet. It wasn't awkward to stare because he had more than enough to stare at and keep me quiet.' EH?
'There was some blood on the white sheets and I gasped, thinking maybe there really was a cherry down there.' Jeez.
'He was about to deflower me and make me into a real woman.'Of course, you were a fake one before.
About her abusive mother; 'It sucked knowing what she’d done to me, but oh well. I couldn’t do much about it.' Yep, I feel the same way about this book....more
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