Reviewed by nitzan_schwarz on
My main issue is all those grand speeches everyone in this book makes. People don't talk like that--at least not people I know. They don't break into long sentences of how much of life you've missed and sacrificed for them in the middle of a diner, especially not in a drop of the hat. These just grate on my nerves so freaking much--I don't even know why, exactly.
Then, there was the whole two weeks thing. Why are all the people in this series required to fall in love and propose in less than a month? Like, what's UP with that? Why can't these people be together for a while, learn of each other's quirks and faults, and fall in love like that? Why must it be this instant 'connection' and 'understanding' that they share with no one else?
And why must you beat us over the head with each others' good qualities? If you feel the need to tell us 10,000 times how witty and smart and tough a character is, or have seven different characters tell us how x is so protective and strong and etc, that means you don't trust in your portrayal of your characters enough. Because only if you feel like we, the readers, won't get it, will you go to such length to 'remind us'. It drives me crazy.
At the end of the day, all these things together made me fell nothing toward these characters and their emotional moments. I found myself rolling my eyes, grunting or urg-ing whenever a 'touching' moment came because I just wasn't having any of it.
And lastly, there were many repetitive sentences in this one... Like 'lit within an inch of its life' or 'squeezed her/his heart'. It was enough that I noticed it. Which is weird.
I usually really love Shalvis's books, so I don't know what was the presence cause of this flop, but the facts unfortunately remain.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 15 December, 2019: Finished reading
- 15 December, 2019: Reviewed