Reviewed by boghunden on
This wasn't really for me. I love angst, but it has to make sense for it to work.
What bothered me most about this book was how similar the chapters were. They all felt like they were written from a template. B and Jamie (refered to as Whiskey for no other reason than he "reminds her of whiskey" wtf) meets, make out and then decide not to be together for whatever reason. Problem is, their reasons are stupid. Dumb. Idiotic even. They even meet when they're both single, and even though they have this amazing chemistry, they decide that no, they can't be together. Excuse me, what? This went on and on and on for 350 pages! Ugh, no thank you.
Okay, so B is refering to Jamie as Whiskey, but she never actually calls him that. I don't know why, it's just another thing that doesn't make sense. Her reason for him being Whiskey is, as I said, that he reminds her of it. His hair, his eyes, and the fact that he had a glass of Whiskey once. Huh? That's just weird. It felt like a big fat metaphor to be honest. I didn't like it, nor did I appreciate it. It was just weird and clumsy.
B has a history of her own, one that I liked a lot, and it made my heart ache for her. I felt sorry for her. I think her story could've been explored much more, I'm just sad it wasn't. That would probably have made up for the endless amount of pages of back and forth.
I will say that the writing was excellent, and I loved their chemistry, which is why I'll definitely be reading more of this author's work, this one was just not making sense to me. At all.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 27 July, 2018: Finished reading
- 27 July, 2018: Reviewed