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A review by ebanocy
Embrace the Suck by Kristen Painter
3.0
I will start this by saying I love this series and after reading the first one immediately began pre-ordering the following four books. The first book was just so funny and good and I tend to really enjoy Kristen Painter's novels. They are usually good and light palette cleansers for me. The following books, while good, were not, in my opinion, as good as the first book and that trend has continued with this last installment. Evidently, I am in the minority in thinking this.
While I did enjoy this book and it did accomplish what it set out to do, I kept getting pulled out of the story by how beyond overdramatic and nonsensical this plot line was. Now I knew coming into this that I would need to suspend my disbelief quite a bit. But there were so many moments in this that made me roll my eyes. Everything was overly melodramatic to the point where I almost actively being annoyed. Especially towards the middle to end of the book. There were moments when I wondered over the intelligence of the entire cast. For example when Pierce went into the Hell Mouth, it was glaringly obvious that he was attempting to get her soul back. But literally everyone was running around saying he'd succumbed to the allure of the Hell Mouth.
Overall, this was good but not my favorite of the series or of Kristen Painter's other novels. I liked how everything wrapped up and it was nice to see Donna's coronation.
While I did enjoy this book and it did accomplish what it set out to do, I kept getting pulled out of the story by how beyond overdramatic and nonsensical this plot line was. Now I knew coming into this that I would need to suspend my disbelief quite a bit. But there were so many moments in this that made me roll my eyes. Everything was overly melodramatic to the point where I almost actively being annoyed. Especially towards the middle to end of the book. There were moments when I wondered over the intelligence of the entire cast. For example when Pierce went into the Hell Mouth, it was glaringly obvious that he was attempting to get her soul back. But literally everyone was running around saying he'd succumbed to the allure of the Hell Mouth.
Overall, this was good but not my favorite of the series or of Kristen Painter's other novels. I liked how everything wrapped up and it was nice to see Donna's coronation.