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kiwicoral's review
3.0
Firstly, let’s admire this incredible cover. I know if I was prancing around my garden at night and a naked man jumped out of my fountain, that’s not the face I’d be making. Worth noting when this scene occurs in the book, he’s fully clothed, so the cover is purely gratuitous (that’s a positive).
The book itself had some fun crazy sauce, but the characters were tough to love. The heroine was spunky and determined, but also a big snob. Kind of hard to hold that against her since she was raised that way, but unpleasant nonetheless.
The hero was a misogynist - he basically hated all the women in his life including his girlfriend and mother. When he goes back and time and realises that all the patriarchal bullshit the heroine has to deal with, he gets a little better. But then he’s lamenting that he wishes she was ugly so she was easier to leave. What a peach.
I was entertained by the plot, but overall I’m glad we’ve moved on from this era of book.
The book itself had some fun crazy sauce, but the characters were tough to love. The heroine was spunky and determined, but also a big snob. Kind of hard to hold that against her since she was raised that way, but unpleasant nonetheless.
The hero was a misogynist - he basically hated all the women in his life including his girlfriend and mother. When he goes back and time and realises that all the patriarchal bullshit the heroine has to deal with, he gets a little better. But then he’s lamenting that he wishes she was ugly so she was easier to leave. What a peach.
I was entertained by the plot, but overall I’m glad we’ve moved on from this era of book.
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