Pink Bits (Awkward, #1)

by J B Heller

[Liz (Bent Bookworm)]

DNF - 20%. Didn’t like either MC. Rhett is stereotypical, and while Reagan’s lack of filter is funny she’s presented as just eccentric in an illogical way. Both the male and female MCs have an irrational fear of blood - probably plays an important part later, who knows. Then a slight emergency happens, and there’s a bunch of ridiculous drama - and turns out Reagan has a completely irrational meltdown - which she fully acknowledges is crazy - during which she screams and thrashes like a child, calls people trying to help her names, etc. She passes out, vomits, passes out. Then she has the nerve to look down her nose at someone trying to help her, who also vomited.

I’m done.

ETA: Let me make it clear - I'm not making fun of people who can't handle blood. It's a vasovagal response that people literally have no control over - though there ARE ways of attempting to redirect it, since it's an bodily overreaction to certain stimuli. What I can't handle here is how Reagan is so clearly aware of her irrational response and appears to just be "oh well, it's me, deal with it" instead of attempting to be logical and overcome it, to the point of being okay with hurting (sometimes physically, definitely verbally) the people around her. Can't. Deal.