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Something to Talk About
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This was a DNF at 73%
This book is a sapphic romance about a Hollywood powerhouse named Jo whose experiences in the spotlight for years have cause her to become very jaded about sharing her love life with the public. As an asian american lesbian Jo refuses to give the tabloids Something to Talk About other than her many career achievements. One day at a red carpet event with her assistant Emma, the two are photographed in an intimate moment of shared laughter. The tabloids and rumor mill explode over the presumed relationship between Jo and Emma and that's were the story takes off.
Sounds pretty cool right? Wrong.
This book was so so boring to me and while I do understand the concept of the slow burn I truly do not feel like these two characters had even one iota of chemistry, every scene between the two just read in a very bland way to me. I simply was not drawn into this supposed romantic dynamic between them. In the beginning I was liking the mild mutual pining but it failed to be enough to sustain me because literally nothing happens during most of this book besides the two going about their regular work routine, and I never became attached to the characters individually or as a couple. Every scene between them mostly seemed like the intereactions of a worker who greatly admires their boss and a kind, understanding boss. I didn't feel romantic chemistry, I didn't feel sexual chemistry, the writing simply failed to make me feel anything. Actually that's a lie, I didn't feel anything other than a growing sense of annoyance over the absolutely absurd conflicts that arise in this story. For 15% of the book Emma is seethingly angry with Jo simply because Jo has befriended her sister, I fail to see what the big deal was and since we spent ages dealing with that I completely lost interest in this story as whole. I'm so saddened that I didn't love this one because it was one of my most anticipated reads of the year but it truly did not work for me.
I received an arc via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
cw: workplace sexual harassment
This book is a sapphic romance about a Hollywood powerhouse named Jo whose experiences in the spotlight for years have cause her to become very jaded about sharing her love life with the public. As an asian american lesbian Jo refuses to give the tabloids Something to Talk About other than her many career achievements. One day at a red carpet event with her assistant Emma, the two are photographed in an intimate moment of shared laughter. The tabloids and rumor mill explode over the presumed relationship between Jo and Emma and that's were the story takes off.
Sounds pretty cool right? Wrong.
This book was so so boring to me and while I do understand the concept of the slow burn I truly do not feel like these two characters had even one iota of chemistry, every scene between the two just read in a very bland way to me. I simply was not drawn into this supposed romantic dynamic between them. In the beginning I was liking the mild mutual pining but it failed to be enough to sustain me because literally nothing happens during most of this book besides the two going about their regular work routine, and I never became attached to the characters individually or as a couple. Every scene between them mostly seemed like the intereactions of a worker who greatly admires their boss and a kind, understanding boss. I didn't feel romantic chemistry, I didn't feel sexual chemistry, the writing simply failed to make me feel anything. Actually that's a lie, I didn't feel anything other than a growing sense of annoyance over the absolutely absurd conflicts that arise in this story. For 15% of the book Emma is seethingly angry with Jo simply because Jo has befriended her sister, I fail to see what the big deal was and since we spent ages dealing with that I completely lost interest in this story as whole. I'm so saddened that I didn't love this one because it was one of my most anticipated reads of the year but it truly did not work for me.
I received an arc via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
cw: workplace sexual harassment
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Reading Progress
January 6, 2020
– Shelved
January 6, 2020
– Shelved as:
to-read
May 5, 2020
– Shelved as:
lgbtq
May 5, 2020
– Shelved as:
arcs
May 5, 2020
– Shelved as:
wlw
May 7, 2020
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45.0%
"This drama is so boring like what is the big deal it’s truly not that deep...."
May 7, 2020
– Shelved as:
about-poc
June 7, 2020
– Shelved as:
dnf
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Jun 10, 2020 03:59PM
other people have pointed out the whole Jo and Emma's sister situation and the fact that there's 0 chemistry between the two main characters, i want me a sapphic slow burn but maybe it won't be this one 🙁
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I have like 100 pages left of this and your review is the first one I came across that mentions the absolute absurdity of most of the “conflicts” so THANK YOU!Every time Emma is mad at Jo about basically just befriending her sister, I was like ...why are we STILL talking about this and why does it feel like the author wants me to be on Emma’s side because I just cannot relate to this 😤
Yes the conflict turned me from being indifferent to disliking this book
