![]() Why would you consume yourself for someone so ardently when you've barely interacted and know nothing of the other? Why put into this "love" all of yourself when all you've said before to one another were just pleasantries and cringey innuendos? Their love was all tell and no show, but most importantly, it lacked motivation. And the first one was super short, so it counts like chapter 1 and a half. Jesus Christ, Mister Love Interest dropped bombs about him falling to his knees for FMC in the second chapter. It lacked the tension and angst that usually come with forbidden love between two people who are supposed to be enemies. So insta the characters fell in love and lust before the book was even written, the romance is so scripted and shallow you could tell me my 13-yo non-reader niece and her hormone-fueled bffs wrote it, and I'd absolutely believe you. I swear, though, nothing prepared me for the mess that was the romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() My goodness, how unoriginal and trite they were. The writing is average, although it had its peak in the first chapters, which mislead me into thinking this could be way better than it actually was.Īnd the dialogues. Even Jace WaylandLightwoodMorgensternHerondale was broodier than him, back in two thousand and cringe. And Mister Love Interest tries too hard to be a bad boy. The characters felt so dull I couldn't pinpoint a single characteristic about either main character and her boyfriend-in-law if it was biting my ass. Seriously, for someone who's supposed to have this important task, this life that was controlled since birth and centered around a central role she was supposed to take, this lady knew very little of what was happening around her. What was happening? WHY was it happening? WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE IT WAS HAPPENING? WHAT IS THIS BOOK EVEN ABOUT? There's so little world-building and lore I was the John Travolta in Pulp Fiction gif the entire time I was reading this. I wouldn't say AKOSAS (an acronym too pretty for a book so mediocre, in my humble opinion) is a bad book, it's just painfully underdeveloped. It also tried very hard to be sexy, but the more the author tried, the cringier it got, so I'll rule that one out. In the book's defense, it was rather short and a very quick read. I picked this up thinking it'd be short and sexy, but it turns out it's not the case and that's a description that I can only apply to myself. If I knew how to love you without getting you hurt, I would never allow them to touch you again.”
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