Rating 2.4
Author: Emily Wiberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka Release Date: January 25, 2022
To say I disliked this book would be an understatement. For the life of me, I couldn’t get myself to fall into this story, and I found myself looking up in confusion and disbelief while reading this book. I had a hard time relating to the characters.
Listen, I’m all for poetics and beautiful words strung together to create a masterpiece, but this was not for me.
I understood Katrina’s struggle with feeling overwhelmed and the fear of disappointing others. Yet, somehow, I wasn’t able to connect with her. I truly disliked it when I was reading Nathan’s perspective and found myself annoyed when he would speak. I kept mouthing, “Wth?”. A man with the inability to be direct and only talk through writing gave me passive-aggressive and annoyed me to no end. It felt disconnected with him being a charmer and able to seduce a crowd.
I understand many people have a facade that they give to the world and are different in many ways behind closed doors, but this guy was just a massive turn-off for me. As readers, we can fall into a world and, like movies, feel the sexiness or attraction in a scene, but I could not even connect to their love scene.
The love scenes felt awkward and like some weird private moment with just them, and I was forced to watch. I don’t know. Maybe if it was written in a way that read more like a love letter, I could fall more into it, but man, I just kept cringing. I couldn’t believe in their romance and the chemistry between the two. I kept searching for something to like and came up blank. There wasn’t enough to make it believable for me.
I’m sure this book is loved by someone, and they can love it in ways I couldn’t. It just wasn’t my cup of tea. The friendship was nice, though.
