"This poor, plain, arthritis ridden heroine is saddled with the callowest cad in H-dom and a future snobby SIL from hell.

The SIL from hell hires the heroine to be governess because she is so plain and won’t attract the BIL. She had to fire the last one because her BIL engaged in an inappropriate flirtation. It’s the Regency so it’s always the woman’s fault.

The H ignores the heroine because..plain, until the SIL from hell warns him off. So the game is on. Plus, and this is the real kicker, the hero plans on giving the heroine just a few kisses so she will have a thrill to relive in her later still plain, spinsterish years. What. A. Guy.

The heroine has a brain and tries to push him away, but to no avail. It gets uglier when the h is saved from rape by the hero and he wants her gratitude in the form of a kiss. Her pointed comment that he is little better than the rapist angers him and he throws out why he’s been hounding her. Cruel and caddish.

Ultimately his heart is won by her honor and inner beauty, but as Danielle The Book Huntress wrote, she is in need of a better hero and family to marry into.

Overall a solid read especially if you like the Regency."

"As the first person to read and review this on GR, I would have liked to give this book more stars. I'm sure other readers might. For me, though, the ratings are meant first and foremost to reflect personal enjoyment of the book. And so ...

It stands to mention that there is a lot to like about this novel. It's clever, insightful, emotionally intelligent, and well written. The AI themed plot with tethering, untethering, and contemplating personhood of entities that aren't technically persons and are based largely on the persons they are tethered to, that's all very in. Very Severance, actually.
And yet, where Severance had me completely enthralled and excitedly glued to the TV screen, UnWorld didn't have the same effect. it's odd to not quite emotionally connect to such an emotionally expansive novel. But I think that's exactly where it lost me - UnWorld was just too deeply interior of a book. it read like a debut novel that got too hung up on being literary and too wrapped up in the microanalysis of its characters. A bit exhaustively so.
Perhaps it's the sort of thing you have to be in the mood for. This isn't the case of an underwhelming novel so much as one that didn't quite work for this particular reader. User mileage may vary. Thanks Netgalley.
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"I honestly do not know where to start with this book review. First, this book has been a very good lesson to me in how I should approach requesting books on NetGalley: I did not realize that this book was over 600 pages long until I was approved for and had downloaded it. I finished it solely out of spite and a desire to not have it negatively affect my NetGalley feedback rating.
This book has a very cute cover, but the story fell completely flat. Joël (the character) is cliche and stereotypical, his relationships with women are caricature. Every aspect of this story is bumbling, there are wild explanations with no substance to every problem. It is clear that the author was very fond of his late publisher, the book is dedicated to him and he appears as a character. However, this tribute would be better edited down to a short story.
This book is not for me, and frankly, I don't know who it would be suited for. "

"This book is so bad - I think it's one of the worst book that I managed to finish. At some point it was so bad and so unbelievable I thought it was Dickers try of a new genre: comedy or Vaudeville. The characters are so ridiculous they seem taken out of a Moliere comedy. One of the main character (husband) is so ridiculous it sounds it was just created to make fun of.


Just because I wanted to get to the end which if course was total non-sense.
All the characters are grotesque and not believable. Also there are no characters you can relate to. The love stories are phony. The plot is so bad. Attempts from the writer to mislead us are patheticd as some plot twist are clear from the beginning.

The prose is horrible as well and the level of a high school student. The writer has such a nice opinion if himself it's comical.

Avoid at all cost and save the week I lost reading this atrocity."