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Crush by Ada Calhoun
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it was ok

Oh how I hate this book!

She glamorizes an affair and blames it all on her husband.

Selfish, selfish, selfish.

She really starts this story in another book, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give which is non-fiction. I read and reviewed it and I see how this has all gone now with this book.

She talked a lot about non-monogamous in that first book and now she develops it to its fullest in this book. In that review I understood how non-monogamous made sense to her. Now I see an incredibly selfish woman defending her choices.

IRL, I come down on neither side of staying married or getting divorced. That’s for each couple to decide. Affairs happen. I’m not naive. Glamorizing your affair in print? Yucky, yucky, yucky.

Also, Ada, by slapping fiction on this story of your life and changing names, you don’t fool me for a second. You wrote this as non-fiction using all sorts of quoted references but somewhere between finishing and publication it became fiction.

Last, this book is as much about the last days and death of her father as it is about her marriage. She didn’t like her relationship with her father either.

And with this, I quit this very personal genre of “here’s my marriage for you to gaze at�. The marriage books are trending hard. They are no longer for me. I don’t want to look in anymore bedrooms. I just want to go forth in peace. ✌�

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January 10, 2025 – Shelved as: to-read
January 10, 2025 – Shelved
February 28, 2025 – Started Reading
March 2, 2025 – Finished Reading

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message 1: by Emily (new)

Emily Great review, Belle. When I read the synopsis of this book recently, I knew it would not be on my WTR list!


message 2: by Amanda (new)

Amanda  up North Thanks for warning me away from this, Belle - I wouldn't like it. Cheers to going forth in peace!


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