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rhiannon1o1 's review for:
The Regrets
by Amy Bonnaffons
This book was honestly just a heap of wasted potential. As the book starts the writing is really beautiful, the imagery and descriptions I was into. Thomas is dying and being taken by an angel. And
then the angel grabs his dick….
And it goes downhill from there. Thomas’s story starts like something I would picture in the “handbook of the recently deceased” which I loved but it never goes much further than this we get a quick scene of him in a office with a angel apologizing for his rapture not going correctly because he had previously met the angel that was supposed to take him. And the first encounter is underwhelming, this encounter is also supposed to have deeply affected him, but his characters actions never really reflect this.
We also meet Theresa who was supposed to be a central character yet we never confirm what happened to her.
Rachel and Thomas are both unlikeable characters, maybe this is why they are drawn to each other. This was supposed to be a romance but neither character has chemistry with each other, the relationship revolves solely around sex. They spend chapters just staring at each other and then Rachel chases him and after some awkward conversations they decide they really like each other.
It feels like both of them were trying to fill some void in each other and that slowly becomes a toxic codependent relationship. With Rachel cutting off all her friends to spend every second with him.
At one point Rachel sexually assaults Thomas, he is out of it and Rachel tries to convince him it is okay because it’s “just her” and when he starts flickering out like he’s dying she freaks out and starts deep cleaning the house. I feel like there was supposed to be a joke somewhere in there? It wasn’t a funny situation but the story continues:
Thomas becomes an apparition and starts haunting Rachel and at first they are both into it but eventually Rachel ends up sleeping with her ex and going to a metaphysics to get rid of him.
And that’s it.
We never get details on him passing on, or where he went, just the chapter before with him cursing Rachel out when his spirit watches her cheat on him.
The story ends with her buying a new mattress.
There was so much that could’ve been explored, the angels, the nightmares that predicted things, the black stones, Rachels family dynamic, her psychology (bc baby girl had issues!!), the office and how it’s run, Dr. Moon, a better ending for Mark.
And we never really found out what it meant that he incurred regrets. Did this make him die quicker? Or affect how he passed on? Or where he went to?Because as he’s pissed and haunting Rachel he doesn’t really seem to be regretting how he’s turning her life upside down. Instead he’s enjoying it. The only person regretting this relationship, is Rachel.
This is a bit of a vent but I really was hoping this book was going to be better than it was.
then the angel grabs his dick….
And it goes downhill from there. Thomas’s story starts like something I would picture in the “handbook of the recently deceased” which I loved but it never goes much further than this we get a quick scene of him in a office with a angel apologizing for his rapture not going correctly because he had previously met the angel that was supposed to take him. And the first encounter is underwhelming, this encounter is also supposed to have deeply affected him, but his characters actions never really reflect this.
We also meet Theresa who was supposed to be a central character yet we never confirm what happened to her.
Rachel and Thomas are both unlikeable characters, maybe this is why they are drawn to each other. This was supposed to be a romance but neither character has chemistry with each other, the relationship revolves solely around sex. They spend chapters just staring at each other and then Rachel chases him and after some awkward conversations they decide they really like each other.
It feels like both of them were trying to fill some void in each other and that slowly becomes a toxic codependent relationship. With Rachel cutting off all her friends to spend every second with him.
At one point Rachel sexually assaults Thomas, he is out of it and Rachel tries to convince him it is okay because it’s “just her” and when he starts flickering out like he’s dying she freaks out and starts deep cleaning the house. I feel like there was supposed to be a joke somewhere in there? It wasn’t a funny situation but the story continues:
Thomas becomes an apparition and starts haunting Rachel and at first they are both into it but eventually Rachel ends up sleeping with her ex and going to a metaphysics to get rid of him.
And that’s it.
We never get details on him passing on, or where he went, just the chapter before with him cursing Rachel out when his spirit watches her cheat on him.
The story ends with her buying a new mattress.
There was so much that could’ve been explored, the angels, the nightmares that predicted things, the black stones, Rachels family dynamic, her psychology (bc baby girl had issues!!), the office and how it’s run, Dr. Moon, a better ending for Mark.
And we never really found out what it meant that he incurred regrets. Did this make him die quicker? Or affect how he passed on? Or where he went to?Because as he’s pissed and haunting Rachel he doesn’t really seem to be regretting how he’s turning her life upside down. Instead he’s enjoying it. The only person regretting this relationship, is Rachel.
This is a bit of a vent but I really was hoping this book was going to be better than it was.