After getting recommendations from two friends on this book, I figured I'd give it a shot. And I can't say I'm disappointed at all. Once I got past the cover and the first person POV, it was fairly smooth sailing.

Honestly, this could have been a 5-star book if it hadn't been for some things that a good editor would have suggested be fixed. So many repeated descriptions like "the corner of her mouth" did something, and using hair color instead of a known name or pronoun "the blonde walked away" or "the brunette flipped the eggs" or whatever. And so much eye color mentions. Stuff like that.

Besides the things I mentioned above, the language was mostly beautiful. And I laughed and got a little teary. It was a really good read and I could see myself rereading it at some point. ( )

Mostly fun book, at least to begin with. I even thought the mention of hair color was handled better than most books seem to handle it. With most books, that constant hair obsession bordering on a fetish would either mark the book as former fan fiction or the author as someone who had risen up through those ranks and hadn't yet shaken all of those fan fiction little tricks. No here it seemed more natural and something that matched the scene and or character.

At least it was that way until I was literally cringing and getting pulled out of the book by each inclusion of hair color. It is difficult to continue reading a book that has these little things to trip me up and pull me from the book.

So saying, it was more how the book ended that caused me to rate this closer to three stars than four. And this for an author who received five stars for their prior two books I'd read by them.

Rating: 3.55

October 31, 2019 ( )