Sometimes I ask myself, what if a teenager read this book � � what would they take away from it? That if you endure enough suffering, everything will Sometimes I ask myself, what if a teenager read this book � � what would they take away from it? That if you endure enough suffering, everything will work out in the end and your partner will become doting?
There are some occasions when this trope can work � � most notably in situations where it’s paranormal and there are enormous barriers that would not be found in real life.
However, in the real world, I don’t think anymore “romances � that glorify abusers are needed. It sends a terrible message to readers about what is acceptable in a relationship....more
**spoiler alert** It’s around this book that I realized that the author is going in an overall direction that I abhor. Even though the heroine is supp**spoiler alert** It’s around this book that I realized that the author is going in an overall direction that I abhor. Even though the heroine is supposedly of high rank, she is helpless and infantilized for most of the book. Not only that, the author edited out some of the things from the Wattpad version that helped to balance this impression. Trust me when I say that the series gets worse as far as this goes, with the heroines being helpless and damaged and the H’s talking like creepy pedophiles.
Her earlier books always had a fair amount of submissive/omega stuff, but now it’s the entire plotline. I also agree with the reviewer who pointed out that recent books include a plotline involving a large number of very young women who have been murdered. It’s creepy.
I have tried to do a close reading of this book for so long but always end up skimming after a certain point because the heroine is so embarrassingly I have tried to do a close reading of this book for so long but always end up skimming after a certain point because the heroine is so embarrassingly immature. She has this amazing opportunity to focus on herself and instead she obsesses about a man she’s known for a minute who has given her no encouragement to speak.
The risk with slow burn is that it makes the MCs look lukewarm. These two certainly got together at a very leisurely pace, which dial down the heat siThe risk with slow burn is that it makes the MCs look lukewarm. These two certainly got together at a very leisurely pace, which dial down the heat significantly. I liked her, though, and he had a good reason for being such an idiot and uncommunicative.
Merged review:
The risk with slow burn is that it makes the MCs look lukewarm. These two certainly got together at a very leisurely pace, which dial down the heat significantly. I liked her, though, and he had a good reason for being such an idiot and uncommunicative....more
**spoiler alert** I had to stop reading this closely midway and skimmed to the ending but I read enough of it that I can confidently give this a one-s**spoiler alert** I had to stop reading this closely midway and skimmed to the ending but I read enough of it that I can confidently give this a one-star rating. There are a few things in this particular book that really set me off:
1. The hero is toxic. He is contemptuous of his one-night stands � the opening chapter paints a terrible picture � � and he’s deliberately cruel to the heroine throughout the book. 2. The heroine’s entire family immediately takes the H’s side, including her sister asking him semi-jokingly if he wants to be in a threesome. Her sister in particular is a real piece of work, confiding details about the h’s sex life to their parents(!). As a matter of fact, every single group of people that she interacts with � � coworkers, family, people she meets on vacation � deceives her, conspires against her, or does both. There is no one who is 100% loyal to her. 3. The family is supposed to be eccentric but they are really just controlling and annoying and they betray her by endorsing him so quickly on the basis of the fact that he helps her to loosen up. He humiliated and deceived her � none of them seem to care about that or recognize it as the red flag and it would clearly be. 4. Small irritation but the hero continues to flirt with everyone even when he is supposedly wooing the h. 5. There’s that gross tactic where he has followed her to a restaurant and comes in with a gorgeous blonde, making the h reluctantly jealous. The blonde, who is his cousin, recognizes it and kisses the H’s cheek so that she can encourage the jealousy. So tired of this and it’s really creepy that the author keeps making her H’s female relatives OK with the jealousy and willing to appear to be romantically involved with their cousin, even very briefly. 6. Finally, regardless of the lip service that they give to compromise and complicated histories, ultimately this book conveys the idea that this quitter beach bum H is somehow superior in his life choices to the h.
I often ask myself if a particular Maya Alden book is going to be my last because there are too many egregious romantic injustices or enormous power differentials or professional and personal humiliations of highly successful women. Despite this review, I have not reached that point yet*. She really knows how to get people worked up over a story and I read her books as soon as they come out because they are addictive. So I enjoy grumbling about these books but I keep reading them, which is my right.
*However, a lot is hinging on whether the next book in her Savannah story involves him engaging in unspeakable cruelty based on a comment he heard a parakeet make. ...more
**spoiler alert** This was a very interesting plot idea, but the author included way too many details that were not interesting or charming. It was fi**spoiler alert** This was a very interesting plot idea, but the author included way too many details that were not interesting or charming. It was first person, so the heroine came across as someone who thought everything that she did was the most fascinating thing in the world. Did we really need to hear about the difference between a chili dog and a Coney dog, for example? Also, all of the wheelchair logistics were incredibly tiresome.
**spoiler alert** DNF, but I definitely read enough to know that this book would be a one star read for me. The h is exhausting, because she is terrif**spoiler alert** DNF, but I definitely read enough to know that this book would be a one star read for me. The h is exhausting, because she is terrified of literally everything. Also, the realism in this series keeps getting worse and worse to me. I don’t want to read a supposed romance where the h observes of her perspective love interest, “I can see his butthole,� wolf form or not.
I will never think truly badly of the author of “Run, Post, Run,� but I should’ve stuck with my resolution to steer clear of the rest of this series. ...more
This is probably the only RH book I have ever read where I felt like the participants were all fleshed-out characters. The plot is riveting (waiting fThis is probably the only RH book I have ever read where I felt like the participants were all fleshed-out characters. The plot is riveting (waiting for the final moment of revelation was excruciating and I thought it would never happen at some point), and although there is always some semi � infantilizing interaction between romantic interests in the author’s books, it’s offset quite a bit by the h’s strength outside of the relationship....more
Ladies, stay far, far away from Savannah, because it appears to be populated with some of the most childish, ruthless, petty, millionaires who like toLadies, stay far, far away from Savannah, because it appears to be populated with some of the most childish, ruthless, petty, millionaires who like to date women out of their social class and then treat them like dirt for a variety of reasons, none of them justified.
This series keeps escalating in the wrong that the H does to the h, so much so that the logical next sequel will have a situation where he has her killed because of something a parakeet tells him, and then digs her up and tries to get her to forgive him, possibly hiring a local witch to do it, thus setting up the heroine of the next book in the series....more
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